New Canadian series Endgame, in which a former World Chess Champion uses his analytical mind to, yes, solve crimes, doesn't seem quite so goofy.Still, though: a chess player turned gumshoe? It's hard not to approach Endgame without a dollop of skepticism.
The good news is that the series does not dwell on the chess bit. Once the pilot establishes that Arkady Balagan (Big Love's Shawn Doyle) is a master of the game -he does that old chess trick where he walks down a line of people studying boards and beats them all, while maintaining an air of dismissiveness about the whole scene -it dispenses with the rooks and pawns other than as part of the set design. This is a positive sign, because a show in which the protagonist actually explains chess strategies while catching bad guys would have been too much to bear.
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