History is wholly the wrong word for what shows like/The Queen’s
Gambit/are doing with the past, like calling mass-produced Pottery Barn
interior decorations “antiques.” They didn’t putthe clothes from/The
Crown/and/The Queen’s Gambit/in the Brooklyn Museum
<https://www.thequeenandthecrown.com/>because they’re historical:
they’re meant to/remind/you of the past, give you a comforting feeling
of past-ishness, but mostly they’re meant to attract ticket-buyers.
They’re meant tosatisfy
<https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/the-queens-gambit-is-the-most-satisfying-show-on-television>,
like stuffing yourself with warm turkey at Thanksgiving and not thinking
about genocide./Don’t ruin the meal/. The goal is drowsy comfort,
falling asleep on the couch with your family.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/always-lived-castle-one-month-queens-gambit/
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