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Rules of the Game

2022 · 1 season

A chilly, slow-burning office mystery that keeps you uneasy as buried secrets surface.

Created by
Jennifer Sheridan
Genres
Mystery
Starring
Maxine Peake, Rakhee Thakrar, Dominic Vulliamy
Tagline
In a toxic work culture, what would you do to survive?
Overview
Sam is a hard-headed manager at a family-run business in the North West. However, when Sam arrives at work one day to find a dead body in the office reception she is forced to reckon with not only murky behaviour in the present, but murderous secrets from the past as well.

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Created by
Jennifer Sheridan
Genres
Mystery
Starring
Maxine Peake, Rakhee Thakrar, Dominic Vulliamy
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • corruption
  • power
  • work
  • guilt
  • betrayal
Places
  • workplace
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour2
Realism8
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
mystery
Created by
Jennifer Sheridan
Written by
Ruth Fowler
Starring
Maxine Peake, Rakhee Thakrar, Dominic Vulliamy, Ben Batt, Alison Steadman, Amy Leeson, Zoë Tapper, Susan Wokoma
Length
1 seasons, 4 episodes, 56 min each
Network
BBC One
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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