Hey Deservant, listeners, a lot of you have been emailing us for the past, I don't know, a few weeks saying that we should talk about the Queen's Gambit, which is a Netflix mini-series.

So let's talk about it. This is the Psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirkconda. I'm a therapist and a professor, and I gave this a 7 out of 10.

Oh, my name is Umberto Castagnan officer.

I gave it an eight.

I'm Colin Miller.

I work for Psychology in Seattle and also I'm working with Brian Fal-Dutto and the Gay Men's Mindfulness Collective. And I gave it an 8 as well.

Yeah. So let's get into the psychology of Queens Gambit. We'll get into what we liked and disliked about it in a second, but people come here to talk about psychology and the first thing I want to talk about is the medication that she was taking.

What did you to lay people think of the medication?

I got the sense, I didn't look it up or anything, but I got the sense that they were being

overt with the colors so that we would know when when she was taking one versus the other and

then they kept that those same pills throughout the series even as the years passed.

My guess was again to let the viewers know that's what she's taking. I didn't imagine

that all that medication was always the same but maybe it was you can tell me but I was

horrified at first when I'm like oh my gosh they used to sedate the orphan kids no

and then the the scene when she like downs a whole handful I was like no oh I I pretty much felt like I was

the one ingesting the medicine at that point yeah Colin what do you think of the medication

a lot of the experience of watching it for me was on a symbolic level

and I would include the drugs in that.

Let me clarify a bit because it's extremely vague.

So I don't know how to play chess.

I believe I know the way each piece moves,

but in terms of strategies or comprehension of how to be good, that's kind of beyond me.

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