Season 1
Beth Harmon makes her move
Synopsis
The Queen's Gambit (2020), Season 1 — watch online on iFILM: 7 episodes, a Netflix drama based on Walter Tevis's 1983 novel.
Beth Harmon is nine years old when she lands in a Kentucky orphanage. In the basement, the janitor teaches her chess. She takes to it like nothing he has ever seen — and to the green tranquilizer pills the staff hand out to keep the children calm. Both habits follow her out of the orphanage and into suburban life, tournament halls, and eventually the world stage.
The Queen's Gambit Season 1 traces Beth's rise across the US, Mexico City, Paris, and beyond, each step closer to the Soviet grandmaster who has never lost. The show doubles as a portrait of what prodigy costs: Beth reads a Sicilian Defense faster than she reads people, and the loneliness is real. Anya Taylor-Joy plays her with a stillness that does more work than any monologue could. Stream all episodes of The Queen's Gambit online on iFILM.
7 episodes
S1·E1Openings
Sent to an orphanage at age 9, Beth develops an uncanny knack for chess — and a growing dependence on the green tranquilizers given to the children.
S1·E2Exchanges
Suddenly plunged into a confusing new life in suburbia, teenage Beth studies her high school classmates and hatches a plan to enter a chess tournament.
S1·E3Doubled Pawns
The trip to Cincinnati launches Beth and her mother into a whirlwind of travel and press coverage. Beth sets her sights on the U.S. Open in Las Vegas.
S1·E4Middle Game
Russian class opens the door to a new social scene. In Mexico City, Beth meets the intimidating Borgov, while her mother cozies up to a pen pal.
S1·E5Fork
Back home in Kentucky, a shaken Beth reconnects with a former opponent who offers to help sharpen her game ahead of the U.S. Championship.
S1·E6Adjournment
After training with Benny in New York, Beth heads to Paris for her rematch with Borgov. But a wild night sends her into a self-destructive spiral.
S1·E7End Game
A visit from an old friend forces Beth to reckon with her past and rethink her priorities — just in time for the biggest match of her life.
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