James Walton

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

Plus: there are more highly visible invisible middle-aged women in my big recent comedy discovery, Tina Fey's Girls5eva

Maxine Peake as Sam Thompson in BBC1's Rules of the Game. Image: BBC / The Forge / James Stack 
issue 15 January 2022
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