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- 2020
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 2020
- TV-14
- Netflix
Summary Arthur Kinnaird (Edward Holcroft) and Fergus Suter (Kevin Guthrie) are the two men who help bring football (soccer) to the general public in 1870s England in the six-part Julian Fellowes' drama.
Created By: Julian Fellowes, Tony Charles, Oliver Cotton
- 2020
- TV-14
- Netflix
- 2020
- TV-14
- Netflix
The English Game
Season 1 Premiere: Mar 20, 2020
62
6.7
Summary Arthur Kinnaird (Edward Holcroft) and Fergus Suter (Kevin Guthrie) are the two men who help bring football (soccer) to the general public in 1870s England in the six-part Julian Fellowes' drama.
Created By: Julian Fellowes, Tony Charles, Oliver Cotton
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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50% Positive
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25% Mixed
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25% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
62
50% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
25% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
25% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Wonderfully entertaining, and full of sharp portrayals.
Later episodes can get a bit too bogged down in trouble at the mill, with striking workers railing against wage cuts. But as soon as the action cuts to the football field and Darwen’s irresistible path to glory, it feels like a winner.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
6.7
67% Positive
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20% Mixed
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13% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
6.7
67% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
20% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
13% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Very good series. Loved the pace and the ending brought everything together nicely. As is typical wit Netflix series, it is extremely well done, from the casting to the story to the cinematography. I walked away with a new appreciation for the sport and the men who turned it into what it is today.
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From same mastermind of Downton Abbey, the early but hard efforts for develop the first professional soccer league, and the social problems of the players. May be a good choice for binge.
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It’s entertaining in a flimsy, forgettable way, giving us everything we’d anticipate expect from a period drama, and not much more.
It is terrible. ... Nothing has been written, shown or scored in a way to elicit any degree of human emotion.
What a smashing idea. The origin of football in a Victorian setting. They could have got a billion viewers if they'd stuck to the football. But they didn't. They missed a sitter, an open goal. Clichéd and hackneyed to the nth degree. All of it. Every single character without exception. Cardboard quality with the dialogue that had to have been written by an AI programmed by a teenage girl. Total dross. Mawkish gunk. And, the football! What little there was.. Oh God. Awful. And Maradona, not even cold in his grave. Shame SIR. Shame
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Initial Release Date: Mar 20, 2020
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
