Brooding in tone yet laced with mordant wit and tinged with sinister inference, The Game keeps us wondering what the Russian sleepers' end game might be.
While The Game is far from a broad analysis of Britain's socio-economic construct, it does analyze what was at the heart of David Simon's first season. Is it all in the game, or is the game the only reason people play?
Like an earlier BBC America series this year, Intruders, it's a little dense and hard to follow. Everybody seems to be calling everybody else a traitor.
The Game, which looks a little like another BBC period thriller, The Hour, is a cleverly conceived throwback to a time when the Soviet Union was a truly scary riddle wrapped in a nuclear arsenal.
There are things to love about The Game, there are things to shrug at about The Game, but at the very least, there's nothing to truly hate about The Game.
