The Sexiest Show on Television Is About … Chess?

Photo: PHIL BRAY/NETFLIX Beth Harmon is at her first chess tournament. It’s 1960s Kentucky, and she’s playing the incumbent for the title of state champion. She’s usually composed, but today her game is off: She’s fidgety and her shellacked orange bob is frizzy. When it’s her move she runs to the bathroom. “Come on you ugly piece of trash. You can beat that fucker,” she hisses at her reflection. Then, she dry swallows a handful of pills.

But how does it make this infamously dull activity so sexy? Chiefly through Anya Taylor-Joy’s protuberant eyes, which take up most of her face and in which she can express a myriad of emotions — fear, rage, and seduction — while hardly moving anything else. The actress embodies Beth, the orphan and chess prodigy at the center of this story, entirely. She gives the character a distinctive physicality.

It's a myth that chess is dull.

It doesn’t

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