I get it. The Queen's Gambit is about a super smart, almost alien person. That's why she's so unemotional and strange.

The thing is, viewers don't like to root for unemotional strange people. We want our heroes to be likable. I suppose we can root for her because she's an orphan, but she immediately gets a good mother. She wins all her matches. Where's the tension?

It's such a white privilege to be able to make a living from playing chess, a game where the players hands move by inches. That's the action.

I didn't sense kindness in Beth. She has almost no reaction to anything. This was not the show for me.