Do you think this is misogynistic?

Anya Taylor-Joy's acting was terrific. It can't be easy making playing chess entertaining. I thought she was very attractive with her big brown eyes and red hair. No, she didn't have the best body. But she looked good when she wore nice clothes that fit well. And even as a frumpy orphan, her pretty face and compelling personality and style were riveting.

Many of the bad reviews are complaining chess is boring. That is not really what this show is about. It's about the main character's interesting but challenging life.

Chess was just something she was naturally good at. She was a savant. It was enjoyable for her, she was good at it, it gave her something to do, and a way to achieve success and fame.

Although the show was entertaining, I think the moral of the story was, although chess gave her something to do and be good at, family and friends is what she really wanted and needed.

After playing chess gave her success, fame and money, she buried herself in drugs and alcohol because she was troubled and lonely. Her biological mother tried to kill her. Her adopted mother died. Her adopted father never liked her. She cut off all her friends and acquaintances. And she never really appreciated the janitor until it was too late.

Until she worked out the death of her mother and realized people still cared about her, she wasn't able to be the best she could be.

They never got into what the problem was with the adopted family. Yes, the mother was sickly and abused drugs and alcohol. But she was portrayed as a much better person than the father, who just seemed to be a miserable, untrustworthy, selfish baby.