Why you must not watch “The Queen’s Gambit”

Douglas Orme
7 min readNov 26, 2020
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“This is about the evils of sex and drugs and rock ‘n roll right?”

Nope.

“But wait, the show is about a lovable, survivor who overcomes all the odds to attain success despite being so tragically orphaned after her father gives up on the family and her mother’s suicide and the all-pervasive sexism she runs into at every turn right?”

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