The Game

Newly retired detective Huw Miller (Jason Watkins) who failed in finding the killer stalker, before he retired at the grand old age of 55, following a nervous breakdown. Anyway, he need not worry, as the stalker Patrick Harbottle (Robson Green) has found him. In fact he's killed his neighbour, living directly opposite, purchased his house, and moved in, all in a space of a week or so. Sounds far fetched? That's probably because it is. The pace of the drama is too quick after episode two, it appears they have sacrificed character development while also compromising on a good storyline, so the whole production can be wrapped up in just four episodes, I speculate for budget reasons, which is a shame. Really strong acting as you would expect from two actors of this calibre, but on the whole an anticlimax.

The first episode was good but, if seemed as though all thd efforts had been put into the opener. After a poor middle couple of episodes, the series comes to a better finale but still struggles to show any originality or any real dramatic effect.

Robson Green seems to be cringing to the viewing audience but somehow seems to be the best mate to nearly all of his new neighbours.

Jason Watkins does show some great acting in parts but not enough to save the overall hum drum of the show.

Things manage to come to a satisfactory conclusion just when the truth seemed futile Another run of the mill channel 5 release.

Detective Huw Miller retires from The Force, with one unsolved crime, The Ripton Stalker, a killer with a disturbing M. O. Huw's friend and neighbour dies and Patrick Harbottle moves in, a man Huw begins to think is The Stalker, but suggestions of it are met with ridicule.

I loved it, yes dramas from Channel Five can be a little hit and miss, but this is definitely a hit. I also have to applaud this for being four episodes long, I'm getting so fed up with six part serials.

It's a hugely engaging game of cat and mouse, we have two big questions running through it, is Huw crazy, is Patrick the stalker, it's such an engaging series.

It's beautifully produced, it looks fantastic, once again Channel Five film outside of The UK and whilst it looks like old England, it's actually Bilbao, the bricks just don't look right and lots of the long shots are out of focus.

Jason Watkins and Robson Green are both flawless here, they share some wonderful scenes together, two hugely talented actors. Honourable mentions for Sunetra Sarker and Indy Lewis, all excellent.

It's an excellent watch.

8/10.

In many ways this show is a waste of a great cast. The script feels like it was written by a group of people brain storming while eating lunch. The plot has more holes than a cheese grater. It has coincidence upon coincidence. The person responsible for the crimes is so loopy it's hard to believe he wouldn't have been caught by now. He seems to be able to appear and disappear more adeptly than the invisible man.

The only reason I'm persisting with it is the cast and I'm waiting to see what preposterous plot line they'll come up with next. Some of the actions of the main character are hard to forgive. He doesn't exactly endear himself to you.

Yet another series reviewed all within 48 hours stating the best thing on TV ever.

Seriously you need to watch this garbage, purely to figure out how notable actors and actresses ( is that word allowed ) agreed to appear in this. Money, pure & simple. Great cast, shocking script, dialogue etc etc etc. I guarantee you'll say OFFS at least 5 times in episodes 2, 3 & 4.

Spoon fed dialogue to explain the obvious, ridiculous plot and even worse screaminginly ridiculous scenes that not even a simpleton would follow. Or maybe that's the state of TV when we have 500 channels following people doing their jobs, cleaning houses or Joel Dommet. Watch Playing Nice, Sixth Commandment or even a blank screen. Honestly it's better than this absolute sh@/@