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'The Queen's Gambit': TV Review

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Like the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg hovering over the events in The Great Gatsby, watching and judging, Anya Taylor-Joy's gaze dominates Scott Frank's new Netflix limited series The Queen's Gambit.

A blueprint for how you can wring thriller-like intensity from a sedentary, intellectual pursuit, the show builds one set-piece after another around Taylor-Joy simply peering at a chessboard.

Even in scenes where the rest of her face can betray no emotion, her eyes alone — capable of filling half the frame — capture exhilaration and devastation, crackling wisdom and child-like confusion.

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