The Game (2014): Season 1

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BBC America | Season Premiere Date: November 5, 2014

Starring: Judy Parfitt, Anton Lesser, Brian Cox

Summary: In 1972, The head of MI5 (Brian Cox) sets up a secret committee that includes interrogator Joe Lambe (Tom Hughes), Bobby Waterhouse (Paul Ritter), detective Jim Fenchurch (Shaun Dooley) and secretary Wendy Straw (Chloe Pirrie), Sarah Montag (Victoria Hamilton), and her husband Alan (Jonathan Aris), to locate sleeper agents for the SovietsIn 1972, The head of MI5 (Brian Cox) sets up a secret committee that includes interrogator Joe Lambe (Tom Hughes), Bobby Waterhouse (Paul Ritter), detective Jim Fenchurch (Shaun Dooley) and secretary Wendy Straw (Chloe Pirrie), Sarah Montag (Victoria Hamilton), and her husband Alan (Jonathan Aris), to locate sleeper agents for the Soviets in this six-part British miniseries written by Toby Whithouse.… Expand

Creator: Toby Whitehouse

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Action & Adventure

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E6. Episode 6
Air Date: December 10, 2014
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S1:E5. Episode 5
Air Date: December 3, 2014
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S1:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: November 26, 2014

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Jeff Jensen

Nov 3, 2014

The Game is next-level entertainment, courtesy of smart scripts and a cast of finely drawn characters. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Nov 5, 2014

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

Tirdad Derakhshani

Nov 4, 2014

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

Tim Goodman

Nov 6, 2014

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

Scott Von Doviak

Nov 5, 2014

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

Brian Lowry

Nov 4, 2014

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

Matt Brennan

Oct 30, 2014

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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geoIndigo

Jun 22, 2015

Not quite TTSS but a pretty solid and entertaining romp. Main query is with the ludicrously minimal cast of MI5 - apparently the team handling GB's biggest Cold War threat ever (at least attending the meetings) is a mere 5 officers: 2 seniors, 2 operational and a tech guy. Bonkers!!