S1.E7

End Game

Name: End Game
Genre: Drama
Released: 2020-10-23
Duration: 1 h 8 min
Rating: 9.2
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Camp, Marielle Heller

Episode aired Oct 23, 2020
TV-MA
1h 8m

IMDb RATING

9.2/10

14K

YOUR RATING

John Schwab and Anya Taylor-Joy in The Queen's Gambit (2020)

Drama

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.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.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.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

9.2/10

14K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The final match between Beth and Borgov is based on a real game played by Vassily Ivanchuk and Patrick Wolff at the Biel Interzonal in 1993. In the show, the moves from the first day of the match (prior to the adjournment) follow the actual game that was played. The second day's action was altered to heighten the drama - the actual match in 1993 ended in a draw.

Goofs
The board inexplicably changes in consecutive shots (Around 55:09). The queen and bishop were shifted one square to the right. It can't be that it shuffled around after a couple moves because the board being played on shows a dark-square bishop and the display board shows a light-square bishop and the quality of the positions are totally different. The display board shows a considerably better position for white.

Quotes
Jolene: Instead of the black cleaning woman, they wanted a clean, Black woman, with a nice ass and a good vocabulary.

Crazy credits
There's a title sequence at the end, as opposed to the previous episodes where the credits used the basic "black background, white text" format.

Connections
Featured in The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2021)

Soundtracks
Jimmy Mack
(uncredited)
Written by Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland
Performed by Laura Nyro and LaBelle

User reviews42

Review

Featured review

9/10

Awesome

I can't believe I cried buckets over a game of chess. A superb mini series. Way, way better than I thought it would be. I can't play chess, don't know the rules or nowt, didn't affect my enjoyment of the show. Superb.