The Queen's Gambit is a Netflix miniseries that follows Beth Harmon, an orphan that turns out to be a genius chess player. The series is based on a novel with the same name from 1983. People have been telling me to watch this show for a while now, and I know how popular it has been for a long time, but...I truly cannot understand such amounts of hype around this show.

Yeah, it's shot in a decent way, the editing and soundtrack are mostly great, some subtle things add a lot to what's going on (the first example is from the end of the first episode, the "promised kingdom" thing). I like that a lot. A lot of the side characters are also quite interesting and memorable, and the acting of Anya Tatlor-Joy and Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Benny Watts) was really on point. So yeah, I generally enjoyed the show. The chess tournaments are quite thrilling as well, especially when edited well (like in Fork or End Game). I liked the ending a lot too, and the show has certain motives that I find...pretty decent. There's also this feminist thing (the whole plot is on the 1960's), which I guess is kinda satisfying to watch (the way that she beats men etc).

But! There are a few problems, which are not so minor that I can overlook them.

First of all, the dialogue. Not always, but certain characters (ESPECIALLY Jolene, but also a lot of side characters, or even some of the more main ones - Alma, for instance) are written so poorly, and their lines feel unnatural and weird.

Also, the characters suffer from a serious lack of depth. A lot of characters (mainly side, but also Beth from time to time) feel really two-dimensional, and I think that most characters could be developed a little more and it would make a huge difference. And no, I don't mean that they have to be complicated, just that they could be much more memorable and interesting to the viewer.

And yeah, that's it.

So, to sum it up - I had a good time watching it, but It's far from being the masterpiece that a lot of people claim it to be. I'm feeling a 7.1/10 on this one.