https://news.yahoo.com/queen-gambit-true-story-explained-210200430.html

In a fun twist, as McClain noted, since Fischer was known to be dismissive of female chess players and once claimed they were less intelligent than men, "Making Beth recall a female Fischer may have been a sneaky, and wonderful, way to send up that assessment."

So they "owned" Bobby Fischer and his wholly accurate assessment of female chess players by grafting his skill and personality onto a fictional female chess prodigy who is more accomplished than any real female player in history? That'll show him, eh?

This is just so painfully "Netflix".

I'll take "sentences that will never be said about any other global religion" for $1,000, Alex.

Alex? You still there?

Anyways, when they first announced this game, I was confused. How exactly are players supposed to feel like heroes when they are taking on the role of murderous invaders pillaging and destroying innocent towns for profit? Was this supposed to be an edgy game where you play the bad guys?

Then I realized that the "innocent towns" in this game are white Christian towns, and the majority of the world doesn't give two shits about destroying them. That's been the program for hundreds of years now. As of our most recent election, it looks like a majority of Americans are on board, too.

Season 2's new antagonist has revealed herself as turbo Hitler, as expected, but it's really the subtext that is so pernicious.

Stormfront (yup...) complains about "the other races" overwhelming and destroying "us", an obvious strawman of anyone who dares question the overt and deliberate demographic reform enacted within majority-white countries by liberal Western governments over the last half century.

No other peoples would see their concerns over such treatment dismissed so casually as hate speech and bigotry. I can only assume as much, of course, because no non-white cultures are being systematically targeted in this fashion. Strange, right?

I tolerated the show to this point because it was reasonably subtle with it's messaging and even occasionally mocked the empty virtue signaling of corporations and media. Most of the human characters have become increasingly unlikeable, but the corrupt supers are genuinely interesting. This episode shattered all that. I'm out.