“Clearly, they’re being paid.”“What, to play football? However, like the heavy leather ball early players had to hoof around soggy pitches, The English Game doggedly refuses to take flight. Suter, Love and Kinnaird were real people, yet except for a few Wikipedia page-deep facts, The English Game is fiction. It’s just more of the same soapy upstairs/downstairs formula Fellowes has been rehashing for years, with the usual cardboard characters, patronising stereotypes and dubious class politics (mill workers striking over pay cuts are depicted as malcontents). The English Game (Netflix, now streaming)Herald

Source: Irish Independent March 23, 2020 09:00 UTC