Netflix Series Review: The Queen's Gambit

 

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"The Queen's Gambit" is an original Netflix series and based on a novel of the same name written by Walter Tevis.

The story talks about Beth Harmon, an orphaned chess prodigy on her rise to the top of the chess world while struggling with drug and alcohol dependency. It's set between the 1950s and 1960s.

I really devoured this series, a little slow at the beginning, but fast and fast on going on.
I liked the protagonist character, enigmatic and sophisticated, and, in my opinion, the actress they chose was perfect for the role.

Chess' world is fascinating. It's a war art played into the mind of players before that in the chessboard. I've played lots of time against my sister and boyfriend, but it's a board game that's not for me. It needs too much focus and when I play something I completely turn off my brain, haha.

Have you seen the series? What do you think about it? Have you ever played chess? Do you like it? If you were a chess prodigy, what would you do? Let me know in the comments.

Night blesses you all

Emily

Netflix Series Review - Dark

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"Dark" is a German Netflix original series that talks about time travel. It's divided into 3 seasons and it's currently closed.

2019. In the small city of Winden disappear two children. The following researches reveal mysteries and secrets about four families: the Kahnwald, the Nielsen, the Doppler, and the Tiedemann. Moreover, during the researches happen some strange events like the falling of copious birds and strong and strange electric pulses that blow the electricity all over the city. Most of the older inhabitants remember that the same events also happened 33 years before when disappeared another child of the Nielsen family.

The first season is articulated on three timelines, each one distant 33 years: 2019, 1986, 1953. I found it slower than the others, but the reason is simple: there is a high quantity of information. 

The second season space out between the year 1921 and the year 2052. It's slow, but like the first, it's still full of information that finally seems to lead somewhere.

At last, the third season comes back in time until the year 1888. Into the second to last episode were included a tracking shot of other years that let us set the last pieces of the story. I found this last season very quick and sometimes a bit overwhelming, but still great!

The end is beautiful, surprising, and that I've never imagined because, like the protagonists, I thought that all the events would start from a point but they started before instead.

The entire series is based on the auto-consistency principle that says, essentially, that the past is immutable and so anyone would come back to change it, will be led to get it done again (see "Novikov self-consistency principle").

Have you seen the series? What do you think about it? Would you like time-traveling? Let me know in the comments.

See you soon

Emily

Netflix series review: The Alienist

Hello readers! I'm here again with a new review.

I saw "The Alienist" during the quarantine. I found it quite soft, but really interesting.

It tells about a psychologist, one of the first during the last ten years of 1800. He would study better the mind of people and he wants to help children who have some psychological problems. There's also his best friend, that is a very good photographer. The two works secretly to a police murder case to find out who is really guilty. The corpse is found on a small bridge, mutilated. After the first corpse, others are found all around the little Neighborhood. The psychologist and the photographer find a very valid help from the only one woman who's working in the police station.

The atmosphere of the series is quite dark and there are also some good plot twists. I found it a good series to watch during quarantine because it talks about innovation. The psychologist is trying to convince other people that the brain is the most complicated organ of our body and that the methods used until that moment to heal mad people are completely wrong. The female presence in the police station is a very rare case for those years, in fact, her presence isn't well seen from most of the policemen.

A few days ago came out the 2nd series here in Italy, so...I know what I can watch this weekend.

What do you think about the 1st series? Did you like it? Let me know in the comments!

Have a nice day!

Emily

Anime Review: Beastars

Carnivores and herbivores try to live together peacefully, but the instinct can't be ignored so easily. Everything starts with the assassination of a student. Anyone know who could be the murderer. Then a wolf student loses his mind and tries to eat a young bunny girl, but he stops just in time and doesn't eat her. After that event, he realizes that he has fallen in love with the young bunny girl.

The anime is a Netflix original production and I really loved it. "thanks" to the quarantine, I watched it only in one day, and now I'm waiting for the second season. It's a shojo (anime for girls) and it has a simple story with no particular plot twists.

Have you seen it? What do you think about it? Let me know in the comments!

Have a nice day.
Symphonya.