Rules of the Game

Synopsis

Sam is a hard-headed manager at a family-run business in the North West. However, when Sam arrives at work one day to find a dead body in the office reception she is forced to reckon with not only murky behaviour in the present, but murderous secrets from the past as well.

First Air Date: 2022-01-11

Last Air Date: 2022-01-19

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 4

Networks: BBC One

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Top Cast

Maxine Peake as Sam Thompson
Rakhee Thakrar as Maya Benshaw
Dominic Vulliamy as Duncan
Ben Batt as Owen Jenkins
Alison Steadman as Anita Jenkins
Amy Leeson as Amy Dixon
Zoë Tapper as Vanessa Jenkins
Susan Wokoma as DI Eve Preston
Callie Cooke as Tess Jones
Sadie Pickering as Beautician

Seasons

Season 1 (2022)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (2022-01-11)

A brutal death at her workplace forces COO Sam to unpick the series of events that led up to that moment, starting with the arrival of newly hired HR director Maya.
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (2022-01-12)

As Maya digs into the company’s toxic work culture and a mysterious death that occurred ten years earlier, Sam starts to question her own culpability.
Ep. 3: Episode 3 (2022-01-18)

Sam struggles to keep her home and work life together when Maya discovers evidence that threatens to upend the company.
Ep. 4: Episode 4 (2022-01-19)

As the police circle, Sam tries to pretend that everything is normal, but faced with her own morals, she must decide whether to pick up where Maya left off.