S1E4
Middle Game
The Queen's Gambit · 2020-10-23 · 49 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 20 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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…
what happens
Russian class opens the door to a new social scene. In Mexico City, Beth meets the intimidating Borgov, while her mother cozies up to a pen pal.
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
70
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
77
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 20 comments — 5 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.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- 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.
“At least she got to live her life to the fullest at the end.”
xotiklive▲ 116about 75–100% inread it ↗
“something about that shaiel scene shook me. like somethin bad was gonna happen and it was not gonna be the game.”
milhauser▲ 60about 75–100% inread it ↗
“and we're only halfway through the series already.”
yanos626▲ 46about 50–100% inread it ↗
“I never expected the Mother to die on the fourth episode!”
zoemeepers▲ 19about 40–50% 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
Sam Gilroy as Tim
Rebecca Dyson-Smith as Stewardess
Pablo Scola as Manuel
Louis Ashbourne Serkis as Girev
Tatsu Carvalho as Doctor