![]() Luckily, Anya Taylor-Joy is more than up to the task. But it’s the game that drives her, sending her both to the heights of the competitive chess world and, increasingly, to her hoard of pills and the oblivion offered by alcohol. When she finally leaves the school, she’s got those last two things packed in her suitcase alongside a bunch of chess books, a sizable ego, some unexplored trauma, and no small amount of self-loathing. ![]() While there, she develops three things: a friendship with Jolene (newcomer Moses Ingram, excellent), a passion for chess, and a physical and emotional dependence on the little green tranquilizers fed to the children until they’re outlawed by the state. Her father’s not in the picture, so Beth finds herself at a Christian school for orphans. ![]() ![]() We meet Beth as an eight-year-old (Isla Johnson) when she’s left impossibly unharmed-physically, at least-by the car crash that kills her mother. Odds are that Beth Harmon (the remarkable Anya Taylor-Joy) will earn quite a few fist-pumps as people discover Frank and co-creator Alan Scott’s excellent series. ![]()
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