Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambitshows a Cold War world far from the usual Hollywood tropes: the villains in this piece aren’t our heroine’s Soviet chess rivals, but the middle-class tyrants of US suburbia.

Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambitshows a Cold War world far from the usual Hollywood tropes: the villains in this piece aren’t our heroine’s Soviet chess rivals, but the middle-class tyrants of US suburbia.