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THE GAME
November 5, 2014  | By David Bianculli

BBC America, 9:00 p.m. ET

 

SERIES PREMIERE: This new BBC America series is like FX’s The Americans, except it’s about British spies on home soil, and takes place in the early 1970s. Tom Hughes stars as a young agent who’s very dedicated, but not infallible – as we can see immediately, from the first of a series of dramatic flashbacks. The drama is deliberate and multi-layered, like a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy study, and the co-stars include Brian Cox, the MI-5 leader who goes by the name of “Daddy.” (That’s not so weird, I guess: On The Avengers, the head of that top-secret spy unit liked people to call him “Mother.”)

 
 
 
 
 
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