I am bewildered at the characterization of a TV series in which it's possible that a single male character does a bad thing as man-hating, much less as setting some sort of record in man-hating. Utopias can be boring, so almost all fictional stories contain some characters who act badly. Sometimes some of those characters are male. The source is a novel of the same name by Walter Tevis. He seems to have a knack for writing novels that make good movies; The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Hustler, and The Color of Money are also based on his novels. Andy On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 6:26 AM Brad Klee <bradklee@gmail.com> wrote:
Quoting from https://the-queens-gambit.fandom.com/ :
*> Alice Harmon* is the biological mother to Beth Harmon <https://the-queens-gambit.fandom.com/wiki/Beth_Harmon>
and the divorced wife of Paul <https://the-queens-gambit.fandom.com/wiki/Paul>. She received her PhD in mathematics from Cornell University, with the dissertation *> Monomial Representations and Symmetric Presentations*. She lived with her daughter in a trailer in Wakefield, Kentucky, until her vehicular suicide on 24th of July, 1957, leaving Beth orphaned.
Though not much is known about Paul, including whether or not he is actually the father of Beth? The title "Monomial Representations and Symmetric Presentations" sounds interesting, but snippets of Alice's dialogue in flashback suggest foul play on behalf of University Math Professors. Obviously Alice suffered from some sort of Trauma. Could Beth, in fact, be the illegitimate child of an over-enthusiastic Cornell dissertation advisor?
Allegedly the TV-Adaptation was made from a book, but I am too busy reading hate mail and Bunraku plays to check and see if the source text has more details on Alice's conditions leading to suicide by vehicular accident.
Be careful when driving, avoid inclement weather!
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