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Channel 5’s The Game, which is now available in the US via BritBox, stars some very talented actors and kicks off with a promising premise. Then it squanders all of this on a preposterous plot that resembles nothing so much as swiss cheese by the end. Supposedly intelligent characters behave in spectacularly stupid ways. It’s further dragged down by far too many irritating genre tropes to count. Spoilers ahead. The Game is basically a “game of cat and mouse” between two men, one an ex-cop and one almost certainly the elusive serial killer known as the Ripton Stalker. Jason Watkins plays Huw Miller, a man who we learn went through something of a nervous breakdown in his hunt for the killer. He retires, though the failure to apprehend the true killer (compounded by the arrest of the wrong man) still haunts him. He lives with his wife, Alice (Sunetra Sarker). His relationship with his daughter, Margot (Indy Lewis) is strained from the years spent on the investigation. Robson Green plays Patrick Harbottle, a charming repairman who moves in across the street after the sudden death – ruled a suicide, but very suspect – of Huw’s friend and neighbor, Frank (Gordon Kennedy). Huw and Patrick hit it off at first, but when they part from a night of drinks, Patrick says “Catch you later,” echoing the words the serial killer uttered to Huw when the detective nearly caught him three years prior. From here on out, Huw begins to investigate Patrick, convinced that he’s the Ripton Stalker. Patrick, meanwhile, begins ingratiating himself with the neighbors and with Alice, and later Margot. The setup is pretty compelling, but what follows is a mess. Let’s go over some of the many, many ways this show drops the proverbial ball. Huw Is A Terrible…

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