On his feet, he wears black Chelsea boots, scuffed to signal he has been around a time or two on his belt, a holstered knife, for some reason. Benny unbuttons his billowy work shirt almost to his navel in order to let his pile of delicate necklaces really shine. What we get instead is Love Actually’s little drummer boy (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) in a leather trench coat and a cowboy hat with a wispy golden mustache and a chinbeard to match. Based on every chess bro we’ve met so far, possibly another shellacked pair of penny loafers in a knit polo. Before he appears onscreen, we do not know what to expect. We’ve been made to understand that Benny has been out there raking in European prize money with his fancy international title.
Benny barges onto the scene in episode three, when Beth encounters him at a Cincinnati tournament in 1963. If you have not made it that far into the Gambit, apologies for ruining the plot, but Beth and Benny Watts, boy wonder of the chess world, do in fact bone. I loved this program, but I still have one burning question: Why is Beth’s fuck buddy dressed like that? The Queen’s Gambit pits foxy and chaotic genius Beth Harmon (played by Anya Taylor-Joy, whom you may also know as the main vvitch in The VVitch) against her own demons, a carousel of arrogant male inferiors, and, occasionally, the Soviets.
Weeks ago, my colleagues started whispering about a sexy chess show, a Netflix miniseries in which beautiful people channel their largely unaddressed horn into a game only slightly less boring than golf.
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