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Television

A cut above TV's usual #MeToo fare: BBC1's Rules of the Game reviewed

15 January 2022

9:00 AM

15 January 2022

9:00 AM

Rules of the Game

BBC1

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Now TV

As you may have noticed, it’s something of a golden age for TV shows about how invisible middle-aged women are — except perhaps, in all those TV shows about how invisible middle-aged women are.

At first sight, Rules of the Game — a crime drama set in a northern sportswear company — seemed a fairly standard example.

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