This exciting drama series revolves around the struggles of a young handsome attorney, who works hard and begins to achieve success and has a life of loose, whose life turns upside down, when his old friends appear and threaten to reveal their dark secrets, the thing that challenges him.
It's a decent followup to NBC's just-completed Shades of Blue and could easily appeal to viewers seeking casual viewing opportunities rather than a full-on binge-watching commitment.
A grim test of endurance, Game of Silence wants to do honorably by its subject matter while also luring you in with lurid shocks. It's a combination that cannot hold itself together.
While the briskness is enjoyable, there is just something about all the tired elements here - the old friends unraveling mysteries of their past, the flashbacks, the lost lady love who is now with an old friend - that just seem incredibly stale.
I am conspiracy theoried-out and the prospect of a second season -- the first season ends on multiple cliffhangers -- leads me to conclude this isn't a game I'm willing to play.
Here we go again, another network TV series that will be, at the end of the day, when the finale finally arrives and the feeble red herrings have been brushed aside, a game.
