The Netflix Effect: Corrosive Storytelling and the Human Person

December 30, 2020 | by Josh Herring

The Netflix adaptation of The Queen’s Gambit and the original version are based on two radically different visions of the human person. They bring the reader or viewer to one of two endpoints: either we recognize the importance of making the best choices and inherit a position of moral responsibility, or we face the despair of living in a world without moral agency.