The Game (2014)
BBC America | Release Date: November 5, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Entertainment WeeklyJeff JensenNov 3, 2014
Season 1 Review: The Game is next-level entertainment, courtesy of smart scripts and a cast of finely drawn characters. Read full review
90
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushNov 5, 2014
Season 1 Review: Brooding in tone yet laced with mordant wit and tinged with sinister inference, The Game keeps us wondering what the Russian sleepers' end game might be. Having seen only the first half of the series in advance, I can only say that unraveling that mystery is so far darkly compelling fun. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanNov 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: It's about characters and their slow unraveling along with the mystery at hand. Whithouse has assembled a superb cast of relative unknowns who support the main Hughes-Cox tandem and add layers (mother Hester, for example). Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraNov 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: Seek, stylish and superbly performed, BBC America's Cold War drama The Game offers more to look at than think about, but then there's something about espionage that almost always calls for a little eye candy. Read full review
80
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniNov 4, 2014
Season 1 Review: The Game is wonderfully atmospheric, stylish, and sexy. But it's a most un-Bond-like yarn. It is totally grounded in the reality of the era. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubScott Von DoviakNov 5, 2014
Season 1 Review: The first episode offers more than enough intrigue to hook fans of spy thrillers, even if some of the elements are eye-rollingly familiar. Read full review
70
VarietyBrian LowryNov 4, 2014
Season 1 Review: Not all that much happens, but the episodes nip along just smartly enough to sustain interest as to what this jigsaw puzzle will look like once assembled, the disclaimer being that viewers will have good reason to be ticked off if the payoff doesn’t justify the commitment. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzOct 31, 2014
Season 1 Review: Plenty of twisty plotting, grim atmosphere and MI5 staff with a rich variety of psychological afflictions, in six parts. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineMatt BrennanOct 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: The Game struggles to stake out new territory for the genre, but it nonetheless emerges as an absorbing portrait of internecine squabbles during an ostensible Cold War thaw. Read full review
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