The Game - Season 1
A Cold War spy thriller that tells the story of invisible wars fought by MI5.
25 August 1987, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1966, London, England, UK
14 April 1959, Leninsk, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
1961, Columbus, Ohio, USA
3 February 1983, Dublin, Ireland
7 March 1965, London, England, UK
14 February 1952, Birmingham, England, UK
12 December 1974, Slovenia
5 April 1971, Wimbledon, South London, England, UK
November 06, 2014
Sleek, stylish and superbly performed, BBC America's Cold War drama The Game offers more to look at than think about.
November 06, 2014
Like an earlier BBC America series this year, Intruders, it's a little dense and hard to follow. Everybody seems to be calling everybody else a traitor.
December 09, 2014
It's a cleverly constructed puzzle that wears its influences on its immaculately tailored sleeve.
November 05, 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.
December 08, 2014
The Game, which looks a little like another BBC period thriller, The Hour, is a cleverly conceived throwback to a time when the Soviet Union was a truly scary riddle wrapped in a nuclear arsenal.
November 06, 2014
While The Game is far from a broad analysis of Britain's socio-economic construct, it does analyze what was at the heart of David Simon's first season. Is it all in the game, or is the game the only reason people play?
December 08, 2014
Today's high-tech espionage thrillers have their appeal, but there's still great pleasure to be mined from good old-fashioned spycraft.
December 08, 2014
The Game is wonderfully atmospheric, stylish, and sexy.
November 05, 2014
The drama excels in the realms of atmosphere, tension and mood, and these are the vital things that a spy drama can't get wrong.
December 08, 2014
There are things to love about The Game, there are things to shrug at about The Game, but at the very least, there's nothing to truly hate about The Game.
November 06, 2014
Although it's impossible to guess where the story is ultimately headed, it could end with either a bang or a whimper and be equally satisfying.
November 05, 2014
The pacing is quick, the motives murky, the characterizations deft.
