S1E3
Doubled Pawns
The Queen's Gambit · 2020-10-23 · 46 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 13 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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…
what happens
The trip to Cincinnati launches Beth and her mother into a whirlwind of travel and press coverage. Beth sets her sights on the U.S. Open in Las Vegas.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
56
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
51
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Read from 13 comments — 4 said when.
Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“That scene where she just stares at the board and the pieces just start moving? Just one amongst many great scenes in this one episode alone. Haven’t played chess in a while but that feeling always gets me going.”
Sam_Ho▲ 72about 0–100% inread it ↗
“Overall I think the pacing is set perfectly. Just as soon as I'm getting a teensy bit tired they time skip and progress to the next stage.”
Imnotveryfunatpartys▲ 35about 0–100% inread it ↗
“she seemed pretty broken in the beginning”
SweatyPlace▲ 19about 0–33% inread it ↗
“blown away by that shot of her walking into the hotel, with bright sunlight illuminating the incredible production design”
TheTruckWashChannel▲ 10about 0–15% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Scott Frank
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Matthew Dennis Lewis as Matt
Russell Dennis Lewis as Mike
Dolores Carbonari as Margaret
Ilja Roßbander as Rudolph
Samantha Soule as Miss Jean Blake
Tim Kalkhof as Roger
Annabeth Kelly as Five-Year-Old Beth
William Horberg as Toby