The English Game
2020 · Miniseries · TV-14 · ★ 7.4 · 58% critics
Two 19th-century footballers come from opposite sides of England’s class divide and are pulled into both professional upheaval and personal turmoil. As they push to reshape the sport, their struggle also reflects larger tensions across society and identity.
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Streaming on Netflix.
5 hours to watch · 6 episodes.
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Details
- Years
- 2020
- Release date
- 2020-03-20
- Network
- Netflix
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-14
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 58/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 (215 votes)
About
If you want a period drama about class and personal conviction with football as a backdrop, The English Game may hit the mark; Not for you if you mainly want nonstop match action or faster pacing like Downton Abbey or Belgravia.
Pros: class divide themes; strong acting; engaging period feel | Cons: football scenes criticized; some slow pacing; some historical nitpicks
Themes
- england
- miniseries
- football (soccer)
- inequality
- snobbery
- class system
- british class system
- 1870s
- snobs
Cast & crew
Kevin Guthrie
as Fergus Suter
Edward Holcroft
as Arthur Kinnaird
Niamh Walsh
as Martha Almond
Charlotte Hope
as Margaret Alma Kinnaird
Craig Parkinson
as James Walsh
James Harkness
as Jimmy Love
Ben Batt
as Cartwright
- JE
Joncie Elmore
as Ted Stokes
- GK
Gerard Kearns
as Tommy Marshall
Henry Lloyd-Hughes
as Alfred Lyttelton
Episodes1 season · 6 episodes
Season 16 episodes
- S1E1Episode 146mNetflix
- S1E2Episode 248mNetflix
- S1E3Episode 344mNetflix
- S1E4Episode 455mNetflix
- S1E5Episode 544mNetflix
- S1E6Episode 649mNetflix