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The Queen's Gambit · The Art of Costume Podcast

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It was nice to see Dudley from the Harry Potter series, show up
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in a character. That's not Dudley.
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Oh my gosh. That's Dudley Elizabeth.
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That's Dudley from Harry Potter. Who plays Harry belting?
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I just blew her mind right now. She looks so confusing us saying
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that to us like my confused. Hello and welcome to the costume
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blogcast. I'm Overjoyed glass and I'm
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Spencer Williams. How's it going?
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Spencer, it's going, it's going. It's been a long week, but I'm
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very long week, but I'm excited to talk to you.
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You know, I've been watching a lot of TV this week.
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So I have a lot of thoughts and feelings.
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Same, same, I wasn't. I wasn't quite ready.
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For all the TV I watch my God but it was enjoyable.
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Yes, totally. So let's with what are we
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watching this week? So this week we watched the
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Queens Gambit finally. It was one of those things.
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Her is like, why would I want to watch a chest show?
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Oh, that's why I want to watch a show about Chess.
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Yeah. If I had a dollar for every
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person that told me to watch the Queens Gambit, I would have
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probably Oddly $20. It was one of those things where
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I'm like, I just don't have time for this and then it gets
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nominated for an Emmy and I'm like, I guess I can make time
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for this. It's just like, ever since we
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started a podcast, I've been able to start watching more TV.
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I felt like, before the podcast, I was really just watching Veep
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and the office reruns constantly.
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But now I'm venturing out and, you know, watching the Queens
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Gambit, I know saying, This was the most dramatic thing.
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I'd watched in a very long time because I was just watching like
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the British Bake Off and Ted lasso.
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That's all I was doing now. I'm like oh, right drama.
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I am so desperately want to learn how to play chess.
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Now I don't that that just looks hella confusing Elizabeth ever
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since the Queens Gambit came out sales of chess sets in the
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United States Rose by around 25%.
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But since the release yeah since the release of The Queens Gambit
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premiered sales, have grown 125% all because of this show, you
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know, so people are chess good for you.
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Jess. We were rooting for you.
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I was rooting for you, but apparently, I learned how to
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play chess. Kind of when I was in, Boy,
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Scouts sounds like kid and clearly it didn't stick with me.
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So I, I like vaguely. Remember like I think my I was
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trying to teach my brother how to play it, and I've kind of
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vaguely, remember them doing that and I think my dad's house
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it like, Lord of the Rings chess set.
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I was looking at those on Amazon, this week, they're nice.
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I want to load utterings chess set.
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Also settle for a Game of Thrones chess set, but okay.
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So now I know what to get you for your birthday.
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You're gonna have to sound like some of those Queens Gambit like
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chess books. So I learn how to play.
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Sure. I'll just go.
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All themed ones. Do you know what a book is?
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Can you send me one of those? I know what a book.
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A okay. All right.
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Well, I'll start us off of a summary so we can start to break
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down this really lengthy. Wonderful show.
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Yes, it was long. But it actually went by like,
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very quickly. I wasn't so much to be those
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long. It was just that there are so
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many costumes that I'm so many characters, so many characters
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and costumes. I have to admit I'm a little
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intimidated. This week, there's a lot of
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stuff to talk about and I don't really know where to start.
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No, we're gonna do our best. So start us off with a summary.
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All right, so I haven't read this since I wrote it, so let's
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hope it still works out. Hmm, in the 1950s Beth Harmon is
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orphaned and sent to live at a Christian girl's orphanage.
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I don't know how to say the name of this orphanage through too
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many years of mistreatment and addiction Beth finds a way to
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cope with her depression. Bipolar Playing chess with the
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custodian William schabel Beth. Quickly becomes a chess genius
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and falls in love with the game. After many years, Beth is
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adopted and sent to live with her new family that wheatley's
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while her days at the orphanage or behind her.
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Beth's love for Cheston issues of addiction followed her to her
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new home, and into her adult life.
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The Queens Gambit is a story of perseverance dedication, and
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facing ones, demons running parallel to Beth's Journey from
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Young orphan to chest. And a master.
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Yeah. Oh, that's a good answer.
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Pat myself on the back for anyone who has not watched the
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Queens Gambit yet. Spoiler warning.
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We're going to talk all about it.
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We're not hiding anything here. So go, watch it.
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If that bothers you and then come back, secret secrets are no
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fun. Secret Secrets, hurt someone.
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I think that's the quote, probably.
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Anyways, spoiler alert, she plays a lot of chests and she
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looks good. Doing it.
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Yeah, yeah, she does. Oh my gosh, she does with that.
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Let's go behind the Wardrobe. So the Queens Gambit was
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directed by Scott, Frank with costume design, by Gabrielle
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Bender. Best known for the lives of
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others. In the Land of Blood and Honey,
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and never look away. So, how about you?
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But I love her. Look this entire time and I
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didn't really Notice this till like I did the research but
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Gabrielle she was like, because her hair's so bright.
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It's so red. She thought that, like, they
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shouldn't her clothes, shouldn't equal that brightness.
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She was like, you know, she's just kind of like a reclusive
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chess player. So like, she didn't want her
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close to like, attract too much attention to her, which I found
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really interesting because Beth dresses like, Stellar through
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the whole thing. Like she's a Doctor.
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And I showed that actually like enjoys fashion and dressing,
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which is one of the things I liked about this.
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They didn't make her just some like a chess genius, who
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couldn't care, less about what she looks like, which I feel
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like they do a lot of times the smart people but she was also
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like, you know, she's not like trying to put herself out there
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so she chose like more muted colors.
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You only see her in red one so that like it doesn't compete
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with her hair and she also Didn't want to show like any
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cleavage, because she was like, well, Beth wouldn't want like
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guys staring at her boobs while she's playing chess.
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So like she never wears a low-cut top or dress in this.
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Everything's like up to her neck and I was like that's that's
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like something like I wouldn't have thought of because it takes
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place in like the late 50s and 60s so it's like oh, that was
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just the fashion. But it's like, no, that was
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something she did fairy intentionally.
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Also very interesting NG about this is like, she wanted to
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mirror what was happening inside of Beth the whole time she's
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quoted in an interview with Vogue saying I always try to
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mirror what's happening inside a character with what they are
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wearing on the outside and the checks are something that I
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thought would be immediately interesting to Anya's character
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as she would intuitively choose to wear pieces that are
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connected to chess which I'm like that is so true.
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Like the first outfit she gets her Herself has like a checkered
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print on it. She wears a lot of black and
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white. A lot of checkered closings.
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I was like, that's so interesting.
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Yeah, from the beginning, all the way to the end, you can see
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a lot of Chess influences and everything she wears, which is
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super cool. Everything she wears, you might
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not notice that the first time, but if you really pay attention
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you'll start to notice it. Yeah, it was so brilliant and
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caramel she wasn't sure about doing this script up like doing
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the show at first cause she was like I don't know anything.
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About Chess. Why would I want to do a show
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about Chess? But that she's like, as soon as
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she read the script, she was like, oh, I need to do this, it
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is intimidating. I mean, chess is such a
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confusing game to me, but it was, it's more than just about
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Chester like that is just like, it's almost like chess has her
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weapon to like Express herself. It's not really all about Chess.
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Yeah, it's the first thing she has that's hers that she's able
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to control in her life and That's what she makes her life
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all about. Well, I love the show so much,
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like I said, there is a lot to break down, so I think we're
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going to take a short break and when we get back we're just
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going to get right into it. Let's get it done.
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Yeah. Welcome back.
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Elizabeth, are you ready to play some chess?
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Or at least pretend we know how to play chess.
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I'm ready to be a spectator of Chess.
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I bet you by Christmas time you and I are gonna be playing
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chess. Just really, really like King
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Tut, why 10? I don't know.
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That's so funny. I'll talk about that in a
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second. Okay, so in episode one called
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openings at the age of 9 Beth is orphaned by her mother and sent
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to live in a girl's orphanage. At this orphanage, she meets her
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best friend Jolene and she also meets the custodian mr.
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Schabel, who starts to teach her how to play chess while at the
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orphanage Beth gets addicted to tranquilizers.
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Probably Every other kid at this orphanage is gain addicted to
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tranquilizers. Oh yeah.
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As it's given to them every single day, these tranquilizers
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allow Beth to hallucinate and play a game of chess on the
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ceiling at night and she practices every night just
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laying in bed. At the same time she goes and
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visits mr. Sable in the basement, every day
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to go play chess with him. All this practice leads to her
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becoming a real chess Protege. She becomes so So good that she
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gets invited to a local high school to play everyone in the
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chess club or SLI easily destroys every single one of
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these guys after chessboards destroys them.
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Yeah mutilates them and I loved watching it when the orphanage
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is banned from giving all the girls tranquilizers Beth is
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unable to practice by hallucinating and becomes
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desperate to get more when she attempts to steals them from
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school Beth is banned from playing from Chest after she
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very clumsy dropped the giant jar of tranquilizers, all over
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the place. I was like, girl come on like
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she's stopping them in her mouth which I'm like, I think you're
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smart enough to know you never do that.
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She's stuffing them in her pockets and I was like, you
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could have she was so close to getting away with this.
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If she didn't try to take the whole thing with her.
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Yeah, I was like, where are you gonna put that giant thing?
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Like No One's Gonna notice that? Yeah.
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Yeah, it's a small school. Anyways, it's an orphanage.
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I love that the orphanage is just keeping them around.
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Like like what we can't throw them out.
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I love. She's like where's the green
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one? He's like, wouldn't it?
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Wouldn't, you know, you can't give tranquilizers to kids,
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shocking. I cannot believe that this was a
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thing. I just this world is just
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terrible. Dude, people used to put alcohol
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in their teething baby. Some guns to get them to shut
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up. So no good.
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I can't, I just can't with this place.
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I hate it here, okay? Thankfully at least she's
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clothed in this place. Yeah, I mean, I guess I think
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one of the first costumes we should talk about would be the
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dress that she wears at the very beginning of the show.
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Yeah. So her mom dies in a car
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accident, and she's wearing something.
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Her mother made for her. It's like a very, very light
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green minty green with her name beautifully embroidered on it.
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And her mom says, oh, like you'll never forget who you are
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and this color she ends up coming back to quite a lot
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throughout the series. It's supposed to be her home
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color but um she gets to the orphanage and they were just
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like let's burn this. Yeah, let's get rid of it.
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I did love Beth's name is Liz. For when I heard it, I was like,
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oh my brother, of course, it's Elizabeth the classic name.
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What can I say the use of Peter Pan collars in the show?
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I mean, it's all over. It's all over the place.
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Like so when she gets to the orphanage, they seem like really
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like good at first. Like the woman who runs it,
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she's like very smartly dress, she wears beautiful dresses the
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whole time. Oh yeah, stunning.
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Yeah. Especially that green one with
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like, the little like in bed. Like Leaf embellishment.
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Ooh, so good. Yeah.
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They seem like, they really have it together at first and then
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she's like, okay, well, first, we're going to like, get you
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some new clothes because granted her clothes are filthy, but then
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she immediately puts her in this just like gross, like, pinafore
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dress long sleeve, Peter Pan collar and like all the girls
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Look exactly the same. She has this terrible, bob
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haircut given to her, I was like, oh my gosh, this poor
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girl, uniform is so tragic. At first, I was like, you know,
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it's okay. But then, once I realize that
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she had a, give up all her old clothes wear this uniform every
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day. I was like, okay, that's cruel.
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That's almost as cruel as the tranquilizers.
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Yeah, that's cool. And it's like, Yeah.
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And clearly like the woman who runs it, she looks good the
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whole time. Like, clearly she, they could
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probably afford better clothes for these poor orphan girls.
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I'm on, are at least, we're let them wear their own clothes, you
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know, and if you know, if they're having like an adoption
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meeting, put on the uniform. But yeah, but like, I don't
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think they even let Beth, like, bring any of her own stuff,
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because it's like, literally the dress, she wore, The accident is
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the same one she gets to dropped off at the orphanage in and I'm
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like, did no one like try to find her father.
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Like I have a feeling that her home life was very tragic.
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It wasn't very good. I wasn't very clear on what was
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happening at home. I just knew it was a good time.
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I know I'm like, you, find out laying on the show, like her mom
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had a family. Like, ya know, No one wanted
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this kit just feels like they took her straight from the
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accident site to this orphanage. Like didn't even try to figure
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out who she was right there. Like I'm trying to get home
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Jeopardy's on tonight. I just need to drop this girl
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for Thor for this real quick. Yeah, I was like okay you don't
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have a belongings. That's fine.
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I don't really have room in the trunk.
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Anyways. Exactly.
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But at least she meets mr. Schaible.
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Oh yeah. He's a cool guy.
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I like this guy. He's so Cool and like clearly at
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first he's like I just want to play chess please go away.
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Yeah. I mean this girl walks in and
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like a potato sack outfit with the world's worst Bob and she's
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like, can I play with you? I'd be like no.
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Yeah, well she's cleaning erasers which like those things.
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It's like the death of you when you try to clean them, my asthma
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was acting up just watching the same as like that to the
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basement to do that. You're not like Oh go outside.
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Like don't get the dust all over your clothes because that
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outside the custodian must have been so pissy like can you
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please stop? I'm gonna thin.
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But yeah as we mentioned there's not a lot of costumes in the
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first episode because there was forced to wear these tragic
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uniforms except for the lovely headmistress but I know other
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than that there's not a lot going on here, there's not a lot
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going on at all and by the end of the episode, she's not even
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allowed to Play chess. You know, the show's over.
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That's it. Everyone show's over.
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That's it. No more.
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At least she does. She does get to read a lot of
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books though about Chess. Hmm, which we looks, which we do
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find out in episode two exchanges.
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At 15 Beth has adopted by mr. And mrs.
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Wheatley the wife, she's like excited to have a kid.
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The husband clearly could not care less.
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So, she moves in with them, she struggles to connect with her
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new family because the mother is a mess.
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Miss Wheatley is a mess, she's struggling with being a mother.
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And the fact that her marriage is like crumbling around her.
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She doesn't fit in at school, like people teased her about her
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looks because she's still wearing her clothes from the
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orphanage. But she doesn't really care
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about that because she's preoccupied with getting back
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into chess. And she also discovered, Who is
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The Wider world of Chess and that, you know, people write
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magazines and you can read all these different books and go to
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tournaments. And as she's getting ready for
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this tournament, she finds her mother's tranquilizer.
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Is so me, he's like, oh looky! What we have here now?
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So she is able to go to her first tournament.
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She dominates the competition and wins against the best player
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there Harry belt. Uh-huh, I love this episode has
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so fun. My favorite scene is when she
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walks up and she's signing up for the tournament.
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That is like the entire show could be cut to just that one
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scene, it would still be Emmy worthy.
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I know and the to the two guys there, who like, they kind of
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treat her like jackasses at first, but they end up becoming
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like friends with her but they're just like your girl why
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are you here? What's your rating?
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What's your rating? She just like she's just answer.
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I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
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They're like you go, like, take your money and go home and she's
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like, no, I'm gonna win. They're like, no, you're not.
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What does it matter? I'm gonna beat every last person
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in this building. So, yeah, and she's still
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wearing that awful, like, pinafore jumper with the Peter
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Pan collar. It's so funny because it's like,
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she left the orphanage and it's almost like she forgot that
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there was like an outside world where people were wearing other
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clothes Like, it's almost like she assumed everyone was going
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to be wearing the same orphanage uniforms.
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But you, well, I feel like they were just isolated from the rest
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of the world. Like they went to school there,
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they lived there. I don't think she probably
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didn't leave that property for what six years.
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I mean, probably more than that. I honestly, I don't know.
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But it seemed like a long time. I loved one, like the
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wheatley's. Are there to like interview her
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to be their I guess the mistrust around that she's like, she's 13
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and Beth was like, hmm, 15, but okay, gotta do what you gotta
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do? I love mrs.
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Wheatley, she was such a cool character.
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I was just the most confused by her cause that first, I feel
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like, oh wow, She's So Glamorous.
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But like her life was such a like lie than Tire time.
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Yeah. Loved.
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When she, she took a Beth to go clothes shopping and you realize
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like actually held Arab her life was.
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I mean, her outfit was so dark and gloomy and gray but she
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still looked really put together.
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It's very like that 1950s, housewife uniform, and she's
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buying a close for Beth and it's just she's such a great
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character, she's such a great character.
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And you feel for her because like she has a crappy life, her
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husband is like slowly retreating from their marriage
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slowly. Like it was quickly house like
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this man is out of here. Yeah.
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So he goes on a lot of long business trips at first but yeah
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and then it's just like peace. Yeah.
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He literally got her a child to leave her alone.
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He's like here. Here's a child.
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I gotta go. Go away and apparently they like
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lost a kid and she's just like stuck in this life that she
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hates and it's like, oh this is we can we talk about Beth corn?
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To high school and her orphanage uniform some more because the
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kids are so me. You're so mean but also she
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stands out so much. I'm just like, who let her go to
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school in this uniform. That's a messed up.
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This is we let her do bad things.
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Wheatley has forgotten how to be a parent.
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I mean, I think she knew how to be a parent.
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This is like me, just adopting a kid.
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I'm just gonna go pick up the kid one day and just hope for
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the best. I'll be calm.
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Knowing that would be terrible. if I ever see just a toddler,
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like, toddling behind you, while we do this, I'm like That would
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be bad for everybody. I will not give you the benefit
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of the doubt my God but I loved when she finally got to the
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tournament was cool like scene of the characters dressed.
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You know, it's like Gabrielle Bender, really start to create a
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world in this episode. This very classic 1950s dress
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Yes, I love all the shirts on the men.
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I thought they were all very nicely done.
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Especially it was nice to see Dudley from the Harry Potter
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series, show up in a character. That's not Dudley.
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Oh my gosh. That's Dudley Elizabeth.
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That's Dudley from Harry Potter. Who plays Harry Bell?
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Take, I just blew her mind right now.
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She looks so confusing us saying that to us, like my confused
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that I see it now, All because he did look like Vaguely
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Familiar but I was like okay whatever like he's barely in the
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series even though he has like a really big role ironically but
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oh my gosh I just assumed Dudley had like disappeared into the
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night. No he looks good.
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Like his outfit looks so good. Also towns who she meets him
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there for the first time as well.
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He looks fantastic. I'm sure he does.
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He always looks Static. He looks strangely familiar.
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Kind of looks like Sebastian Stan?
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No yeah that's why you like him. I mean, I like him.
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He's hot. I don't think he looks like
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Sebastian Stan. Anyways, I love all the outfits
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and all the men and this show a particularly this episode.
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Yeah, it's just so funny saying. Best just really dominate all
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these guys though and I like her still orphanage uniform and her
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crazy. Of, and she doesn't even give it
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a second thought when she played, and then when she like
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plays Harry felt like he's straight up late to their game
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because he just assumes he's going to win in like a couple
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moves. I guess.
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And she's just like, no, you're tripping.
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You're trippin. Hi.
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This is not not the first time. She's going to dominate.
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A whole bunch of men at chess. Is it Spencer?
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No, she's gonna do it every episode of she has to.
25:16
So let's talk about episode 3, double ponds.
25:20
I love this. Episode once, mrs.
25:22
Wheatley, that her new girl is making some cash money off of
25:28
dominating men and chest every week.
25:29
He's down, she's down. She's into it.
25:32
I like I don't know. Chess could be a job.
25:34
Yeah, she's like. All right.
25:35
You all the sick notes. You need to get out of school.
25:38
Oh no, it's not terrible. So if the support of her mom,
25:42
mrs. Wheatley, Beth wins her second
25:44
competition and gains the ongoing support of mrs.
25:47
Wheatley, she wants to travel the world, she even offered us
25:50
herself, Be here agent. I want 10%.
25:53
Which I thought was bizarre but also okay and Bethany and said
25:57
sure we'll do 15% because Beth knows she's about to be making a
26:00
lot of money. She continues to win and becomes
26:03
a celebrity despite the fact that most of the press is all
26:06
about that, she's just a young girl dominating everyone you're
26:09
her celebrity she starts to become accepted but she finds
26:13
herself unable to fit in with all the other chess players
26:16
after heading to Las Vegas for tournament Beth.
26:19
Finally meets her match. Match when she meets Benny W and
26:22
loses her first game then that is doubled pawns.
26:26
Yes, I love this episode because it's where she starts to get her
26:30
style. Yeah, I love when you know,
26:34
recently she saw a mannequin and she was just like with her new
26:37
money. It's time to start stepping up
26:40
the style and I love that she has no sense of what real style
26:43
is. So she sees a mannequin and
26:46
she's just like, well that's what style is so that's what I'm
26:49
going to be. Yeah.
26:51
I love it cuz she's like wins her first game and she has all
26:55
like more money than she's ever had in her life.
26:57
So she immediately goes, she's like, okay, gotta buy a chess
27:00
set, Gotta Buy all these books and then like she sees that
27:03
mannequin again and she's like and I'm gonna buy this dress.
27:07
Hmm. Exactly.
27:08
Off of the mannequin. There's just so many great
27:12
outfits in this episode. I do you know where to start?
27:15
There really are. I love the scenes with Beth and
27:19
her mother just try. Traveling on the planes, you
27:23
know, having some drinks, I love them like having dinner, and
27:26
Vegas. The colors in the sets on the
27:29
show are absolutely stunning. They're so good.
27:32
And like, I love one heard. Her mom have dinner because it's
27:35
like her mom's like, I don't know anything about Chess but
27:37
I'll sit here and listen to you. Talk about it all day long.
27:40
Yeah. She's essentially like I'm being
27:43
paid to sit here and listen to you right now and that's fine
27:46
with me like I have another drink.
27:47
Please. Hey, I love her.
27:51
Checkered dress with the white. That's probably the most for
27:55
revealing shirt. She wears the whole time.
27:58
Yeah, but that's where that first, the checkered pattern
28:01
comes in, then when she's being interviewed, it's like the
28:04
little, the dress, with the little white collar.
28:08
And I think that with the white collar, that was probably my
28:10
favorite one. Mmm.
28:12
Yeah, I do love that. She literally is on a nose but
28:15
wearing Checkers on her dress, like, you know, chess has become
28:19
her life and it's not just Like what she does.
28:21
It's just like she is chest and she embodies that and everything
28:25
that she wears. I think that's so cool.
28:29
I do have a bone to pick though, and I don't know if you're going
28:33
to feel the same way, but there is I have a serious problem,
28:38
okay. Benny w, i wrong with Benny, wha
28:45
something here is not right? I like the costume on him.
28:49
I like this, like out. Either bad guy type of cowboy
28:54
look, he has kind of like a Star Wars Bounty Hunter look.
28:58
But also, the kid looks like, he's like 12 with a fake beard,
29:03
this costume, and the him do not match, it does not work.
29:07
And it's not the costumes fault. It's not the designers fault.
29:10
It's the casting. Like he is just like too young
29:14
for this look. I don't like it.
29:17
That man is in his 30s. Is he really?
29:20
Wow, well, he looks good for big 30 but it's as if he really 30,
29:26
he's we're gonna fact-check production.
29:29
He was born in. Okay?
29:31
He was born in 1990, so he's in his early 30s.
29:35
Wow, he's older than us. That's crazy.
29:38
I like the costume. I just don't feel like at this
29:42
point in the show, it was ready for him.
29:44
He does wear it like a version of it in a couple episodes from
29:48
now and it works. But like, in this Third, it
29:51
didn't work for me. I think he was really supposed
29:54
to stand out. Gabrielle said to Vogue.
29:58
I imagine many watts could be connected to Andy warhol's
30:03
Factory. He's so different from everybody
30:05
else. He's not the Chesapeake as with
30:07
Beth. He's an outsider.
30:09
Yeah, I get it. Yeah and I think maybe it's the
30:12
Hat. I think it's the hat for me.
30:15
It is the hat. That is part of the problem.
30:17
The coat. Like if I was going to say
30:19
anything, I think it's the code. Ooh, it's a little bit too much
30:22
for him, especially wearing it inside.
30:24
I'm like, dude, take your coat off.
30:26
That's leather. How are you not dying?
30:29
But yeah, it's the coat. I don't think it's so much that
30:32
hat. Like I said, it's not the
30:35
costume. For me, it's more like the
30:37
casting and like, who he's supposed to be portraying at
30:40
this point. It just didn't work for me.
30:43
But why me he's supposed to be extremely young too?
30:46
I don't think he's that much. That's what I'm saying.
30:48
He's supposed to be like a young Yeah, this time.
30:52
So I'm like I feel like he showed up dressed as like
30:55
someone from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with like you know,
30:59
like a piece of a young guy in the 1950s.
31:02
What do you think is inspiration is it's probably not the cowboy
31:05
movies. Oh my gosh.
31:08
All right, well, I got that off my chest.
31:14
Good to know. Towns does make another
31:17
appearance in this though. He's good.
31:19
Oh yes. I was like For a second.
31:21
I was like is he gonna get with Beth right now?
31:23
And I was like I like it but he's too old for her.
31:27
Also I think it was implying that that Beth is not really his
31:32
type. I don't know.
31:33
I was very confused. I'm pretty sure that was his
31:35
boyfriend that walked in a hotel.
31:37
Oh really? Yeah, I didn't put that
31:39
together. I think so.
31:41
I mean it was subtle but I had a feeling that a lot of like
31:45
ambiguous stuff going on but I was like can this be explained?
31:48
It'll take two seconds. The gift of read between the
31:53
lines. I think you do but I'm also just
31:55
like I want to know. I think that's why they didn't
31:58
invite so that was more the fact that she was a minor.
32:01
But yeah I mean that to anyway but all in all a very wonderful
32:11
episode. I do love how Beth's hair
32:14
starting to transform slowly. Yes, we're leaving the bar
32:18
behind slowly we're not gonna like talk.
32:20
Ali jump right into new hairstyle but start to morph,
32:23
but she gets that like longer Bob.
32:26
It's very, it's very nice. It flatters her face very well.
32:29
It's a good look for her. Yeah, like this works.
32:32
You know this hairstyle works and there was one dress, I love
32:36
to while she's playing with Benny.
32:39
She has like that blue top with the white skirt.
32:42
Oh yeah, like the kind of Sailor top.
32:44
Yeah. So cute.
32:46
I love it. She looks good in blue.
32:49
It's so cute. That color looks green.
32:52
Onion onion, Taylor. Joins just looks good and
32:54
everything. That's just she does what it is.
32:57
You sound a little bit confused while we're describing like her
33:00
outfits. It's just because they're so
33:02
many of them. There's so many of them, right?
33:06
I mean there's, she must have like two million looks.
33:09
I don't even know how a costume designer put all this together.
33:11
It's just incredible. It's insane.
33:15
Like, I feel like she has 20, like different looks.
33:18
I would say more than 20 each episode.
33:20
So each episode I mean this is why Gabrielle Benders nominated
33:27
for an Emmy this year and it's so well deserved.
33:30
I mean I would not be surprised if she won.
33:32
It's just this is brilliant work.
33:35
It's insane. And I believe most of it was
33:39
custom made for her probably. But anyway with that we have
33:43
some more chess tournaments coming up.
33:45
So I think we need to take a break and study up on our moves
33:49
and we'll come up with A game plan on the other side night to
33:52
be five. I'm gonna do the Sicilian after
33:55
this. Whatever that means.
33:58
The Sicilian open, I have no idea.
34:01
Let me go. And welcome back.
34:25
It is episode 4 middle game. So, episode for Middle game,
34:31
Beth graduates, from high school finally, and goes to her first
34:34
tournament abroad in Mexico City.
34:37
She's excited. Her mother is excited to meet up
34:40
with a long time, pen pal. So while her mother is having
34:44
the time of her life Beth Is stressing over playing the most
34:48
experienced player? She's ever faced from the USSR
34:52
morgoth. She's just studying, studying
34:55
studying, and her mother's like, calm down.
34:57
We're in Mexico, have some fun. So, she meets up with some guys
35:02
who she seen at a couple of the tourneys tries to widen her
35:05
Social Circle and she's upset when she has to face off with
35:11
borgov and concede the game. She loses However, this ends up
35:17
being the least of her worries, when sadly, she gets to her
35:20
hotel room to find her mother has passed away.
35:24
That was so sad. I hated that scene.
35:27
It was so sad because she's just talking to her and talking to
35:30
her and talking to her. And then she looks over and it's
35:33
like, she's fully dead. I love this who's talking to her
35:37
dead mom about Chess and her mom's like good.
35:42
That's the way. Oh, it was so terrible and then
35:47
that terrible the hotel manager when he when he's like oh we're
35:52
going to like take care of your entire Bill.
35:54
Don't worry about it. And there was a really big
35:56
liquor built. There was a really big liquor
35:59
bill. It's like, by the way, I have an
36:02
idea on how this might have happened and I think we should
36:05
look to the liquor bill for maybe some insight.
36:09
I'm just like, dude, if you're taking care of the bill, either
36:12
way, why'd you bring it up to me in a way?
36:14
I feel like this is kind of Me Billy, don't worry.
36:17
I'll help you. Even though you're severely
36:19
inconveniencing. Me and this is going to take up
36:22
a lot of my time but I'll take care of it.
36:25
I was that, I'd be like I didn't ask you to do that.
36:29
Okay, please don't my mother just died.
36:33
My father is like you take care of this, not willing to like,
36:38
lift a finger to help ya. I don't need your Shame about he
36:43
literally just like gives her some notes on it.
36:46
We're like the family plot is on the all this stuff and expects
36:49
Beth to be writing it down and like put it in the email, send
36:52
it to my Yahoo account, like, send a letter.
36:56
Why don't you call these people and be like, hey, that's Jake is
37:01
going to show up with my dead wife.
37:03
Before I talk about the costumes, I just want to ask how
37:06
the hell did Beth graduate from high school?
37:09
She never went, she never went, I assume she probably like a lot
37:14
of those kids. They just like, do They as long
37:16
as they like turn in all the work, that's to do, and take the
37:19
test, like, they're fine. And like, clearly throughout the
37:23
show, like there are flashbacks to her and her mother, like her
37:26
birth mother, and her birth mother was like a mathematical
37:29
genius. So, and clearly that those
37:32
smart, so I think she just like blows through her school work.
37:36
I wish I was good at math. Me too good for you Beth.
37:39
I'm glad you graduated from high school.
37:41
I just did not see that. Coming, my father's sick notes,
37:44
she was putting in Right. All right.
37:47
Liz with there's a lot of costumes to talk about in this
37:49
episode. There's a lot and like, this is
37:52
where she really comes into her own style because she's like, oh
37:57
yeah, I mean, this is the fashion episode.
38:01
Yeah. She's winning competitions like
38:04
left, right and Center. She's raking in that prize
38:07
money. She puts it to good use in her
38:10
closet. The first thing where I was
38:12
like, ooh, Beth is that that white dress.
38:16
Us with the v-neck that she wears.
38:18
When she's hmm? The I think it's like the first
38:20
day of the competition in Mexico.
38:22
I was like, oh hello. Yeah, like those the little
38:26
button straps. I'm like, this is gorgeous.
38:30
I love that dress, so much and we look closely at the buttons
38:34
on it. There's a checkerboard within
38:36
it. There is nothing.
38:39
It's so much fun. Yeah.
38:41
Oh that's a good dress. I love it.
38:42
So so much such a good dress and her mother.
38:45
Her is also looking good. She's hanging out with her pen
38:49
pal. She looks good.
38:50
She's just like I'm dancing. I'm having a good time.
38:54
She's living her best life. She is loving it.
38:57
She's like, I love chess. Chess Rock.
39:01
Just, right. I'm going out tonight.
39:03
You have fun. And she's like, Okay.
39:07
And like what you said about like, oh, the checkers.
39:10
The checkers are like all over her wardrobe.
39:12
She wears that adorable swimsuit.
39:14
Oh yeah, the Checker is all over.
39:16
And I didn't even notice that when I was watching it but I'm
39:18
like, wow. She's like literally wearing
39:20
like a chessboard type, you know, pattern on her swimsuit.
39:24
Even everything. Everything is chess.
39:27
Chess is life just as life for her.
39:30
I love this idea that she's playing chess, but she's not
39:33
even doing it for the money. She's doing it because like,
39:35
this is what she loves and what she knows and like she has all
39:39
this money now and the only thing she uses it is to buy
39:42
clothes because other than that, she doesn't even care.
39:45
She's Like, I guess I could buy more clothes that have to do
39:48
with chess. Yeah, she really doesn't.
39:51
She just like, buys clothes and books and like books about Chess
39:56
and that's it. I do love the scene where she
39:59
hangs out with all of her friends from the Russian class.
40:02
I just love this top that Beth is wearing because it's black
40:05
and it just has like little accents of white in it.
40:08
And it's just like I love this monochromatic wardrobe that
40:12
she's doing, it's just everything is about Chess.
40:14
Everything is about Chess every single outfit.
40:18
She's wearing checkerboard pants too.
40:20
I just realized. Yeah, it's so subtle.
40:25
It's so subtle and it really comes out in this episode.
40:28
And then I love once again, the guys, in this episode look very
40:32
Dapper Borg off. His suit is beautiful.
40:36
Like, who the Russians put a lot of money into you if there was
40:41
ever a character or a costume that screamed like us.
40:45
I mean, USSR. It's this costumed character.
40:49
I mean, just him sitting at the chess table, I like, oh, that
40:52
must be Borg off. He looks exactly like how you'd
40:55
imagine him. Yeah, it's like oh yeah, you're
40:59
the Russian player. The costumes.
41:03
Perfect. Also love the the kid she plays
41:06
earlier in the episode who's also Russian that was a cute
41:10
scene. He's so cute and I'm like, oh my
41:12
gosh, you're like a mini bore. Gosh, I loved Hello, Beth play
41:17
that kid. She was making me nervous.
41:19
I think her tactic was just a make him so stress or she would
41:23
walk away. Start tapping her foot.
41:25
I'd be like, okay yeah. I give up you win.
41:29
Yeah. She's just like stressing him
41:31
out and then I think she feels bad afterwards though, because
41:34
he's like our drive-in movies are real thing and she's like,
41:38
yeah, of course. They like, what are you talking
41:40
about? I'm just like Beth.
41:41
Why did he have to make an example of this little kid?
41:44
Like, I swear She is like a like a medieval warrior or something
41:50
when it comes to chess, she just makes examples of people.
41:53
I'm like, he's a kid growing up in Soviet.
41:55
Russia could give him some slack.
41:58
The last no I want to give is that the textiles that mrs.
42:02
Wheatley. Where's are just so beautiful.
42:04
I just want to touch all her Fabrics.
42:06
I'll just look so comfortable. She's wearing like a quilted
42:10
fabric at one point that just looks so nice and plush and
42:13
cozy, especially cuz like her Wardrobe.
42:16
There's not like a ton of Culp color and it like that she's a
42:20
very monochromatic dresser but you don't notice it because the
42:25
textiles are always very interesting.
42:28
Yeah, I also feel like compared to the mrs.
42:31
Wheatley, we met and episode 2 like when she took Beth shopping
42:35
and she's wearing this a very gray like really gloomy black
42:39
and white outfit. Now, she has like a little bit
42:41
of color, you know, it's pastel. There's a little bit of pink and
42:45
blue. Blew her Silhouettes are like
42:47
really fun. It's almost like she's starting
42:49
to come back to life as she met her new pen pal.
42:53
Fortunately things don't work out for ya.
42:55
And her pen pal. So, that's when I think she
42:58
Resorts back to her old ways. But for a little bit, we got to
43:02
see the happy mrs. Wheatley.
43:04
And I liked it a lot so good. But uh Beth is about to go off
43:09
the rails a little bit. Yeah, so an episode 5 known as
43:13
Fork after her mother's death Beth Turns home and receives an
43:17
unlikely call from Harry belltech, who offers to train
43:21
her? And she's definitely in a very
43:23
dark place at this time. She's very upset, she not only
43:28
lost her mom, but I think above all, she's upset that she lost
43:32
the game to just two major blows in one day.
43:37
Yeah, I don't know which one was worse for her to losing to borga
43:41
for to losing her mother literally.
43:44
So she moves back home, And Harry belted calls.
43:47
Her offers a train her. So, he moves in with her and
43:50
coaches, her an attempt to get closer to Beth.
43:53
But, but soon, leaves, when he finds out that Beth does not
43:56
care about him the same way he cares about her and he moves
43:59
out. Also, he realizes that she's way
44:02
better at chess than him. So this training is really kind
44:05
of useless. Beth goes to tournament and
44:08
Ohio, where she runs into Benny W again and beats him at a game
44:12
of chess afterwards. Benny offers to train her in New
44:15
York? So she can play later on in
44:18
Russia. I love this episode.
44:20
I thought was really nice. I loved lots of great costumes
44:25
in this episode. I think it's very, very typical
44:29
of Harry belltech thinking that if I do something for you, then
44:33
you have to do something for me. Which includes loving me.
44:36
And Beth is like, no, that's not how it works.
44:40
He gets all upset and leaves. I don't like this guy.
44:44
No men. I know I didn't like him either
44:49
cuz like a, it's weird cause like he met her during a chess
44:54
tournament. When she was like 15 and like,
44:57
like he's been following her career all these years and he's
45:00
like, oh I fix my teeth for you to do the he's like in love with
45:04
her, for no apparent reason. Just because she beat him at
45:07
chess, once it's a real weird, the real toxic masculinity,
45:11
really jumped out of Herring this episode.
45:13
Like what do you mean I got my teeth?
45:15
For you. And now I trained you and you're
45:17
not in love with me. Yeah, she's like, no.
45:22
She's like, I just want to really read this book about
45:24
Chess right now, but you could leave if you want.
45:27
And he's so he does. I'm just like, this is weird.
45:31
These some of these characters, I just want to shake them
45:33
sometimes. I know she misses him, but she's
45:36
like, I have another competition to go to and to look amazing.
45:41
And again, she starts to wear these little like headscarves.
45:44
And I'm like, yes. It looks so good on you.
45:47
So nice are definitely starting to get into the 60s here.
45:51
Definitely, with these prints and fabrics.
45:54
I do love before we go to the competition.
45:58
Ohio, I love Beth's costume where she's just wearing like a
46:02
black T-shirt. It's just like her kind of
46:04
casually at home while she's with Harry.
46:07
Oh yeah. With love like mock turtleneck.
46:09
Yeah, I love that. Look on her.
46:11
She's just so sophisticated and cool and classy.
46:14
She really is Very 60s, but it's just as like I love black on
46:19
her. She looks really good in black
46:21
and she just looks so sophisticated, and I love it so
46:24
good. But at the competition is where
46:27
she really shines. It's like, she like waits to go
46:30
to a competition to book. Pull out all of her, nice stuff.
46:33
Oh yeah, like I love this. I think it's the First costume.
46:37
She's wearing it. Has the like the stripes in like
46:44
Navy and red with like, Those cute little skirt that buttons
46:48
on the side. I was like, yes.
46:50
Like you look so cute, girl, I love that color on her.
46:54
I love that when she is not playing chess, she kind of
46:58
experiments with her neck lines a little bit.
47:00
And since that she's like, okay, I could be a little bit more
47:03
revealing because, you know, I've still a young woman I want
47:07
to like just be sexy, she wants to be sexy on there, you know,
47:12
on her time but not on chess is time.
47:15
She's playing with different shapes.
47:17
I love the skirt on her and I love the use of headbands, like
47:20
you mentioned. But yeah, that blue and red top
47:24
that she's wearing is very, very nice.
47:26
It is, that was like my favorite look of this episode especially
47:29
because it's like probably the most fun, like, kind of flirty
47:33
thing she's worn so far because like, even she always looks
47:37
great. But it's always like very
47:38
structured and that had a little little less structure to it.
47:42
I think one of my favorite outfits of this Episode is when
47:46
her and Benny go into the auditorium and she's wearing
47:51
this really fun 60s textile and their squares all over it like a
47:57
checkerboard or chess board but it's like retro and 60s or it's
48:02
almost like a funky chessboard where it's still squares, but
48:05
it's all different colors. That's so fun.
48:08
I love that's like, oh no, I'm still dedicated to chess but you
48:11
know, we're starting to get a little groovy here with our
48:13
textiles to yes. So good and that even when she
48:20
finally beats Benny and she's just, she's like so serious in
48:25
this because she's got like her black head scarf, the black, and
48:28
like white trimmed shirt and just like, think just like a
48:33
khaki skirt because she's like, this is business right now.
48:36
I can't be too too interested in anything else.
48:40
Yes, such a good episode. I think this might have been one
48:44
of my favorites. So, Before we start to wrap up
48:47
this the show, I think we should take one more break because we
48:50
have a lot of chess moves to study.
48:53
There's a lot of chess moves with study and Beth.
48:55
Just makes a lot of moves in her personal life as well.
48:58
Yeah, neither. Rest up before I get into all
49:01
those tranquilizers again. Yeah.
49:26
All right. Spencer, are you ready for
49:28
episode 6? Adjournment?
49:30
What if I said, I wasn't ready too bad, too bad, we're headed
49:36
right into it Beth and Benny, he's driving her to his home in
49:40
New York. They play mental chest, the
49:41
whole way there, which I was like, that's too much.
49:44
But you do you Do they get to New York Benny's life is not
49:50
what she's expecting. However, she ends up learning a
49:54
lot from him and meet some new friends, including a glamorous,
49:59
French model Cleo, before she heads to a tournament in Paris.
50:05
There she's ready to face off with Borg off again and she's
50:10
crushing the competition. However the night before, she's
50:13
about to face off with more golf.
50:15
No surprises her and is like, hey, I'm in Paris.
50:18
Let's have drinks and Beth is like, maybe a drink because
50:22
she's kind of stopped drinking at this point.
50:25
She knows it's not the best for her.
50:27
It was like, okay, a drink, she gets drunk shows up to her
50:32
competition with Warg of late and hungover, and is forced to
50:37
resign the game losing tuborg off yet again and making things
50:42
worse when Beth gets home. Mr. Wheatley is trying to throw
50:47
her out of the house even though he said like, oh yeah you can
50:50
live there just make the mortgage payments now he's like
50:52
hmm. No I need the money.
50:54
This house will bring in from being sold so like get out and
50:58
she's like well you want to sell it.
50:59
I'll buy it because she's just as good at saving money as
51:03
playing chess apparently. So she buys the house.
51:08
She starts remodeling it. She's just trying to get over
51:12
the loss of her game, tuborg off and the Lost.
51:15
Mother, but she quickly spirals out of control causing both
51:21
Harry Bell tick and her old friend Jolene to intervene.
51:26
That's was a good episode. This was a good episode cuz
51:29
like, clearly she had a problem. The first couple episodes, but
51:33
then like through some people being like, hey, maybe lay off
51:37
your pills and drinking, she kind of, like, low-key gets it
51:41
together, and then this episode, it, just all falls apart.
51:45
Yeah, she goes on a spiral. So I do love the scenes with
51:51
Beth and Benny at Benny's home in New York.
51:54
I feel like Benny's character is.
51:56
Now fully realized. I love the costumes on him.
51:59
Do you approve of him now? I like I said we just have to
52:04
get there and we got there and now I think it's working.
52:07
He just had to grow into his character.
52:10
You know, has he got older and more mature?
52:12
Yeah, he's a little less cowboy in this.
52:16
And a little more like it has more of that like musician vibe
52:19
to him, which I think is much better.
52:22
It works for back to I was not expecting that.
52:26
I was like oh okay, definitely work for Beth.
52:30
I don't really see it but you know, chess players deserve love
52:34
to they do they do. Let's talk about this trip to
52:39
Paris. Yeah, that's why I was about to
52:41
say, let's get into the parish trip because this is where her
52:44
fashion Isn't this episode? She looks so good in that, like,
52:51
light green and black dress, when she's facing off with ward
52:54
off. I'm like, ah, I know it's so
52:58
good. It's so good.
53:00
It's like, you are a hot mess emphasis on Bhai well II.
53:07
So they kind of like, preview the scene at the very beginning
53:10
in episode 1, where she walks in all lay.
53:13
I remember watching it was I who, that outfits.
53:15
Good. And it's like quickly changed
53:17
her being an orphan. I was like oh that's sad.
53:20
So when we got back to the scene and she's like marching through
53:22
the hallways all hungover, but still looking like at her best
53:26
though I was just in love. I was like oh yeah this is to
53:30
show for me and it paid off when we got to the scene.
53:33
It really does and like it looks so good on her.
53:36
However the style of it isn't super fitted like the sleeves
53:41
kind of like bail out a little bit.
53:43
Like it's more of like a Eight fit than fitted to her waist.
53:48
So like even though it looks so good on her because she's so
53:52
fidgety and like hung over it just like wrinkles in the right
53:56
places to make hurt like so that you know like oh she is like she
54:00
is struggling. Yeah.
54:03
You she's like constantly pouring herself water which, you
54:06
know, we all been there. But every time she goes to like,
54:09
pour yourself some water. You could see like the costume
54:12
really just kind of like just kind of dangling all over the
54:14
place you're like oh Guys she's a mess right now.
54:17
This is like The Struggle Bus is in full force right now.
54:21
It's so real and I love for God keeps looking at her like what
54:25
are you doing? I think even for golf is
54:28
disappointed like I think he is deep down he's like oh you know
54:32
like playing this girls actually pretty fun because she is a
54:35
worthy Challenge and she showed up late a hot mess and he's just
54:38
like disappointed. He's like really girl I was
54:41
hoping for something a little more here.
54:44
Yeah. He's Disappointed were
54:46
disappointed because he's like, I've faced off with you before
54:51
and you were you had it together.
54:53
You weren't messy all this because she had to get a drink
54:57
with Cleo, which I just want to talk about the scene, because
55:01
she had to wear that red dress. Yeah, that looked good on her.
55:06
I was like, oh, she looks gonna read but Cleo my God.
55:10
She is beautiful. But no, I love that red dress
55:13
and it's just like she comes down.
55:15
She's wearing like, I love this to look like the comfiest
55:18
outfit, she wore in the entire series, it's this huge cream
55:23
turtleneck sweater, and then just like some cigarette pants.
55:27
I guess they look like leggings but I'm like the 60s?
55:31
They're clearly not leggings, but she looks so comfy.
55:34
She's like got her tea and I was like, I kind of have expected
55:37
her like, just a go down in that.
55:39
But it's, when she comes down, in that red dress, I'm like, oh
55:42
no, oh no, this isn't gonna go away.
55:45
Well, oh no, it's the red dress. We have a red dress and like
55:49
every episode now that we've talked about.
55:53
Anytime I red dress shows up, you know, it's about to go down,
55:56
something's about to go down and I was like, okay, well, maybe
55:59
she will just have one drink and that'll be it.
56:01
No, the scene changes and there's like four cups in front
56:04
of her and then Cleo's like, ooh, let's go talk to these hot
56:08
guys over here. And she's like, okay, this is a
56:13
disaster. So fast forward.
56:16
Paris definitely does not work out.
56:18
So now we have to talk about a death spiral out of control.
56:22
When she gets home, this is a real spiral.
56:25
Oh my gosh. It's so bad.
56:27
So bad, so bad. I love that outfit.
56:30
She's wearing when she hits her head, just like this nasty blue
56:34
tank top and a tan sweater, unlike honey.
56:38
What are you doing? Yeah, it's just, she looks.
56:41
She looks like a mess and I love that as a costume designer
56:45
guess. Real Bender really like she was
56:47
able to display emotion through the clothes that Beth was
56:51
wearing through each scene and like this tank top even though
56:54
it's literally just like this really messy kind of tacky tank
56:58
top. It says so much about how she's
56:59
feeling and right now she's feeling an absolute tragic mess
57:04
right now. Yeah shows even when she cleans
57:07
herself up, it doesn't get any better because it's like, okay,
57:10
she has to go to that competition to like take a
57:13
picture. Do a piece, whatever.
57:15
Like gotta be neon, which I'm like.
57:17
That is the look of every suffering Millennial.
57:21
Like when you have a hangover and you have to go do something
57:25
the next day, it's like, okay, here's your beanie, like she's
57:28
wearing that like weird orange top like black jacket and her
57:33
make. She her makeup is always on
57:34
point in this scene while it is very like cool and trendy.
57:38
It's like you're clearly trying to like cover something up here.
57:41
Like you're in Kentucky, not New York.
57:43
Yeah, it's very Twiggy. Tired and it's just like I love
57:47
that she looks too. She doesn't have her own sense
57:51
of style, you know, she's developed over the years.
57:53
But she her style is very from, you know, watching TV, like she
57:57
was doing when she was spiraling and she's like oh that's like
58:00
the character. I'm going to study and become
58:02
now to like cover up the exact disaster.
58:05
She hasn't side of her. Yeah.
58:07
And but she's still like the tragedy is still peeking
58:11
through. I was so sad about this High
58:13
School scene. I was just really upset.
58:15
Cuz I really was hoping it'd be like a fun reunions and she
58:19
screwed it up. She screwed it up like that
58:22
really nice girl who was the purse first person she be in a
58:26
competition comes just the Seer to be like oh hey like
58:29
congratulations. So excited.
58:32
I was like she's back it's gonna be so cute and Beth is just
58:35
like, huh, what? Yeah, she like starts trying to
58:40
smoke in the high school just like girl get it together, man,
58:44
get it together. And like, even Harry comes in
58:47
his. Like I've seen you at the
58:49
grocery store and haven't said anything because I know she's
58:53
not good. I can see you from down the
58:56
aisle. You look like a real mess right
58:57
now, please? What?
59:01
A disaster, but things start to turn around when Beth gets home
59:06
and we have the return of one of my favorite characters, Jolene
59:10
shows up, I love jolene's costume, it's very like 60s.
59:17
I love the hair and a black leather jacket with the orange
59:21
turtleneck. It's just this look is so right?
59:24
I love it so much it is and like she was at the orphanage.
59:28
She was always like the tough girl, and it's like, she's
59:31
clearly still that, but she's all grown up.
59:34
She's like sophisticated and like ready to Take On The World
59:37
in this outfit Jolene shows up. And she's just like this is a
59:41
real Freaking disaster and I'm here to help you because you're
59:44
a real mess. I could I could sense it from
59:47
across the country, you're a real disaster.
59:50
Yeah. Well let's let's just get into
59:55
just how much Jolene helps her. Okay.
59:58
So episode 7 and game jolene's. Visit is prompted by the death
1:00:04
of mr. Schabel and hopes that they can
1:00:07
go to the funeral together after the funeral Beth and Jolene
1:00:11
visit The orphanage where they grew up and discover that mr.
1:00:14
Schabel was following Beth's career than Tire time with the
1:00:17
help of Jolene, Beth is able to get herself back together so she
1:00:21
could go and compete in Russia. Once she gets to Russia, Beth is
1:00:26
destroying the competition. Just like we knew she would
1:00:29
she's just really putting people down but during her adjourned
1:00:32
game with bar graph, she gets a visit from an old friend towns
1:00:36
with assistance from all of her friends back home.
1:00:39
Help her in her final Faceoff of bar graph.
1:00:41
They They come together almost like the chest Avengers and the
1:00:45
episode titled and game, which is interesting.
1:00:49
But through her own genius and self-realization that Beth beats
1:00:53
Borg off and understands just how much she is capable of.
1:00:56
This is a beautiful episode. I loved it.
1:00:59
The Perfect finale gave me everything, I needed.
1:01:02
It really is Jolene. Comes and realizes like with
1:01:07
Anna, couple minutes that Beth is just out of control.
1:01:11
She's like, I haven't seen you in years and I know there's a
1:01:14
major problem here. Yeah you look and smell like a
1:01:18
mess. Just look at you.
1:01:19
Yeah, yeah. She's like you need to get it
1:01:22
together. When she opens the cabinet and
1:01:25
sees the old tranquilizers, they used to get she's like I told
1:01:29
you to be careful with because I'm a little things like girl,
1:01:33
and then also at the same time though, I'm like, I don't want
1:01:36
to say it's jolene's, fault, because it's not, but she didn't
1:01:39
really do much in a sense of making.
1:01:41
She didn't take these tranquilizers when they were
1:01:44
kids, you know? She, yeah, they were also kids.
1:01:47
They were kids, but she kind of encouraged it in a way.
1:01:50
So, but it's not Julian's fault. But at that must have been a
1:01:53
daunting moment when she opened the cabinet was like, you
1:01:58
weren't careful with these. This is a great episode.
1:02:04
I love all the scenes that Jolene and Beth had together.
1:02:07
I love their cute little tennis outfits.
1:02:10
I love that they're like very Be kind of matching where Beth has
1:02:13
like her white headband and Jolene has her blue headband.
1:02:17
Very cute. I'm so mad at Beth though, for
1:02:20
not visiting mr. Schabel, before all this
1:02:23
happened, I know because I feel like after she got banned from
1:02:28
playing chess like they didn't speak after that and then you
1:02:32
see the cork board with like all her gains and the articles about
1:02:38
her and the picture and it's just messed up.
1:02:40
She was like his I know I'm so mad at the showrunners for
1:02:45
making me. Watch scene.
1:02:47
I was crying out. There you are.
1:02:51
I was like this is too much like, I can't but yeah, the
1:02:56
costumes and these first scenes are brilliant, but let's just
1:02:59
get to Russia. We all know that.
1:03:01
That's where we want to talk about the costumes.
1:03:03
It is. And this is again, where
1:03:07
Gabrielle brought in that green color again?
1:03:11
Which for her. She wanted to represent home
1:03:14
though. She said we wanted to create a
1:03:16
moment when she could once again come home which is why she's
1:03:20
wearing the same color dress in the final tournament in Moscow
1:03:23
is the color that really makes her fragile.
1:03:26
But in the end, it's the same color is her strength and
1:03:30
symbolic of a homecoming and it's like, she really does come
1:03:33
into her own in these last couple scenes.
1:03:37
Oh yeah. And I love that like she's in a
1:03:40
good place. She feels healthy.
1:03:41
You see if I believe sober and she's just like really pulling
1:03:46
out all of her best looks because like this is like what
1:03:49
her entire life and career has led up to.
1:03:52
So, she puts everything she has into these days in Russia and
1:03:55
it's so satisfying. It's so good.
1:03:58
And like, every single dress is a knockout.
1:04:01
Like, there's that gray green woman with like, the almost like
1:04:05
Bill and looking collar. There's her tan checkered jacket
1:04:10
that she wears. Every Read a which I was like oh
1:04:14
I was like oh this is a good one, I love that coat, Gabrielle
1:04:19
said of that coat, the checkered coat that she wears to leave the
1:04:22
tournament. In Moscow was a beautiful
1:04:24
vintage piece that we found, which I believe was designed by
1:04:28
Andre Korg as in a American designer as part of a
1:04:32
collaboration. This was a very self-confident
1:04:35
piece, we wanted the visuals of a strong decision referenced by
1:04:39
the checks. I was like, yeah.
1:04:41
Yeah, I love that in the finale. She just pulls out, like, her
1:04:45
greatest like checkerboard print like this.
1:04:47
Is it, you know? Yeah.
1:04:50
There's just so much good stuff in this episode.
1:04:52
I didn't even mention the t-shirts that she wears before
1:04:55
she gets to Moscow. All the hand made t-shirts.
1:04:58
Are they handmade? They're so good.
1:05:01
Almost everything in the show was handmade.
1:05:03
Oh wow. Gabrielle been Digger with
1:05:06
killing it man. Yeah she was.
1:05:09
There's just every look I just Also, I love when she gets into
1:05:13
her seat to her hotel in Russia and she late sits down on the
1:05:18
bed and like the coat with like the textile on the bed at the
1:05:22
same time, it just works so beautifully.
1:05:25
It's so good. And I love when she's um she's
1:05:29
in that game against the older Russian player.
1:05:33
I was kind of like this hour. I'm sorry.
1:05:37
That was fun though. That was so much fun.
1:05:39
He was a great player but then she wears that Like that green
1:05:43
velvet dress and I was like like it looks so comfy and like she
1:05:49
was like I'm comfy and confident how about you?
1:05:52
Yeah, she's like she's so confident right now.
1:05:55
She's not worried about anything.
1:05:57
Like whatever happens is gonna happen but she's pretty sure
1:06:00
she's gonna win and then she goes to play Borg off and like
1:06:04
you said she's wearing like that green undertone and it's kind of
1:06:07
like a gray, but has like green undertones to it.
1:06:10
I loved a structure. On it.
1:06:12
I love the princess seams is so stunning and like this is the
1:06:15
ultimate Peter Pan collar. Yeah, I mean, I love it so much.
1:06:20
It's like they had pull off everything and her last match
1:06:24
and I what I loved about this episode is that we had and this
1:06:28
is true for like a lot of for life and people you meet but
1:06:32
like you have this predetermined notion on how people are going
1:06:35
to be is this character going to be evil?
1:06:38
Are they going to be mean? You know, are they here too?
1:06:41
It's ruined me but I love that like and playing, you know that
1:06:44
one chest where you mentioned who look like Einstein and also
1:06:47
borga like at the end of each match, you know, the Einstein
1:06:51
guys like, you know, I really love playing for you.
1:06:53
You're one of the best players I've ever played and this is
1:06:55
like a real honor and when she plays Borg off he like,
1:06:59
literally like reaches out his hand and he's like, I'm so proud
1:07:02
of you, you know, like you did that and they hug.
1:07:06
That's what I said. That's what I start crying.
1:07:10
I'm actually a little teary-eyed talk.
1:07:11
Talking about it because I was just like that, you know, I felt
1:07:15
like the whole time I was like, oh, this guy's evil, you know,
1:07:17
and he's just like I'm so proud of you, like, you killed that
1:07:20
Beth was like, that's right, she killed it.
1:07:24
I was like those in my living room, clapping like a maniac.
1:07:29
It's just so good. The best ending, you know.
1:07:33
I keep hearing people saying like we better get a season 2.
1:07:36
I'm like, why? What else is there like snow?
1:07:39
There's no need for a season 2. Is perfect.
1:07:43
I would just end it. Now everything that needs to be
1:07:46
said, had to be said, literally her final outfit.
1:07:50
Oh white hat. With the puth, the white jacket.
1:07:54
She is the queen of the chessboard of the world
1:07:58
literally sits down to play with those old Russian men.
1:08:01
And she's like, it's almost like now chassis for fun.
1:08:04
Yeah. I was already crying after the
1:08:06
Singapore Gogh, and then when she's just walking on the
1:08:08
streets in this white coat with like the black pika, Hang out
1:08:12
and the white cap with a little puff on the top.
1:08:15
I was like she's literally a queen piece from the board.
1:08:18
Yeah that's with this. I started to cry some more.
1:08:22
Like I've never seen a costume that so perfectly wrapped up a
1:08:26
show like this. This is beautiful like she is
1:08:29
confident, she has a together, she is achieved everything she
1:08:33
wanted in life so far and she you like she has this air of
1:08:37
like, okay, I'm ready for whatever is next.
1:08:40
Hey, Gabrielle been there. Like I said it was nominated for
1:08:43
an Emmy and this was the episode that they submitted and I think
1:08:46
so rightfully. I mean, just this queen outfit?
1:08:50
Yeah, that was it, you know, that was a nomination.
1:08:52
Just and this one that costume, let alone the entire show.
1:08:56
So I just thought it was so beautiful.
1:08:58
I can watch a scene over and over she just looks so happy.
1:09:02
She's glowing. She looks like an angel.
1:09:04
She's the queen of the world. Right now, she's like beat the
1:09:08
game. You know, she finished a game
1:09:10
against Borg off of her. And her wind but I feel like she
1:09:12
also like one and a game against herself and like the battles of
1:09:16
all for addiction depression. She's finally coming to who she
1:09:20
is. She's found herself and I just
1:09:23
love it. I love it so much.
1:09:25
Yeah, it's so good and like we didn't really touch on it but
1:09:28
like this last episode, she's really coming to terms with like
1:09:32
who her birth mother was and like how she kind of like ended
1:09:36
up where she is today, and she's like, don't cry Elizabeth.
1:09:40
I'm gonna cry with you. I'll try not to so good and that
1:09:46
brings us to the end of the Queens Gambit.
1:09:48
Oh my gosh. I love this show.
1:09:51
I'm so glad we watched it. I'm probably gonna re-watch it
1:09:54
honestly because I just loved it so much.
1:09:57
I like, wasn't expecting to like it this much, like anything was
1:10:01
like any sport in it, like, I'm immediately like, okay, I'm
1:10:05
probably not going to watch that.
1:10:08
That's just like, my starting point.
1:10:11
Like, I'm just Like, not a big Sports person.
1:10:13
Like, I'm like, I'm not gonna understand half the references,
1:10:16
but like, Anya, Taylor joy, in this role, she makes it so
1:10:22
interesting. Yeah, I mean, she deserves her
1:10:25
Emmy nomination would not be surprised if she wins.
1:10:28
She is so impressive in this role, she's so impressive.
1:10:32
Like everything else comes together to from like the
1:10:35
script, the direction, the set design, the costumes, everything
1:10:40
just like rolls together, And it's like, oh, this is good.
1:10:43
I would say, this is a perfect TV show.
1:10:45
I don't have anything any negative things to say about it.
1:10:50
I love that so much and I'm so glad we watched it.
1:10:53
So what are we watching next week?
1:10:56
Spencer, are you ready to just head in a wildly different
1:11:01
direction? I'm ready.
1:11:03
I've no more crying. I need something less crying who
1:11:07
could cry and be perfectly situated world.
1:11:11
Old of clueless as if I'm so excited if totally Oh no you're
1:11:20
ready. Yay!
1:11:22
We're finally Watson clueless. This is such a staple of
1:11:25
costume. Designing there is no way.
1:11:27
We can talk about clueless and our first season of the podcast.
1:11:30
I know it really is shockingly. I've never seen it before.
1:11:35
Okay, come on, man. I don't know if there's like a
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And this is one of them. Okay.
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Well, I've seen clueless 2 million times.
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So, I'm excited to watch this with you.
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