A little too youthful, and oddly recognizable. Now, the whole time I bit my nails over this Benny Watts character, I also found the actor somewhat familiar. It was all so hot for a girl in quarantine who is too lazy to start a conversation on Hinge. When he and Beth finally do the deed, I nearly lost it - there was so much built-up competitiveness-slash-care-slash-admiration between them. I could listen to this man talk about chess all night. Throughout his character's arc of becoming Beth's rival to friend to (spoiler alert!) lover, I was rooting for him - and also really looking forward to his moments on-screen. chess champion, so his confidence is warranted. There's just something about his swagger. Despite his strange, wispy moustache, lanky form, and somewhat of a small face, both I and Beth Harmon (Taylor-Joy) became instantly intrigued.
One of those men is Benny Watts, a character who first appears on screen dressed like a swashbuckling chess pirate, regaling a group of tongue-wagging groupies with hypothetical game strategy.
(Then again it is 2020 and I haven't interacted with a man in months, so I might be projecting - but still.) It is no doubt a feminist tale, but there's no denying the degree of sexual tension that occurs between our chic gamine of a heroine and the men she devours, quite literally, across the board. I'm sure we all know about The Queen's Gambit, the Netflix hit starring Anya Taylor-Joy as an impeccably dressed (and cat-eyed) orphan chess prodigy in Cold War-era Americana, rising through the ranks with the help of a brilliant mind and an addiction to actual chill pills. In a surprising turn of events, the horniest show on television this fall is one that is decidedly about chess.
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