Fork

It stays the same quiet line as two previous episodes. I hope it will get better because I wanted more.

Greetings from Lithuania.

Fork, 5th episode of "The Queen's Gambit" was a good episode, that explored main character a bit deeper. Its was a slower episode but very rewarding and important because it was a good character study episode. Our main character is in crossroads and people around here (the only few there are) are helping her and tried to guide here.

Overall, with now 2 episodes left, i love to see were this road will lead here. Great series overall.

The entire episode was awkward as hell and I don't know how many times i cringed in confusion. And the chess games getting reptitive.

Never relying on any cliché TV tropes, this series is consistently surprising me with its unexpected previous episode tie ins and dialogue. You see a scene in the second episode and wonder why it wasn't resolved fully.. You would be pleasantly surprised after a few episodes. And HARRY freakin' MELLING mann!!! The best acting performance in this episode. There comes a brilliant acting performance from an actor once in a while in a television series or a movie that moves you, count this as one! Watch out for this one bcs he's gonna be a prolific actooor!

This show started fantastic - fresh, uncertain with some unexpected twists and turns. But as we go along our heroine remains the same as she was in first episode. She doesn't listen to anyone, every advice is ignored, every plea falls on deaf ears. Beth Harmon has only 3 faces - the smug I'm-the-best smirk, "Stupid!" angry face of loss and slightly sad mug when things don't go as planned - time for some vitamins! Here and there she acknowledges there is more to life than chess. And that alternative life is completely empty and pointless. Maybe that's what they were going for but black and white main character really makes the whole series kinda flat and dare I say a bit boring. So far it's a solid 6 - entertaining at moments but feels like a documentary. In place of psychological drama and lunge into madness or greatness we are left with silent young woman moving around with head filled with only chess board, pieces and strategies. You wait for something to happen. Two more episodes to go, I want to see it through the end and I'm slightly hopeful that the ending will make up for this washed out second half.