• Director(s)

    Jennifer Shereridan

  • Production Year

    2021

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Maxine Peake, Susan Wokoma, Rakhee Thakrar, Ben Batt

TV Show

Rules Of The Game

RULES OF THE GAME is a UK crime drama; in this episode police question a corporate executive when one of her employees turns up dead. …

RULES OF THE GAME is a UK crime drama; in this episode police question a corporate executive when one of her employees turns up dead.

  • Director(s)

    Jennifer Shereridan

  • Production Year

    2021

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Maxine Peake, Susan Wokoma, Rakhee Thakrar, Ben Batt

strong sex, sex references, nudity, language, drug misuse
Classified Date:
07/03/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('shit', 'crap', 'bollocks', 'screw', 'hell').
sex
Strong sex includes a porn video, including brief nudity, in which a woman is choked during sex.
drugs
There is a scene of drug misuse in which a mother and her teenage daughter smoke marijuana together.
additional issues
There are references to sexual violence in which it is implied a female worker was coerced into performing sex acts on colleagues. There are references to suicide and suicidal ideation. There is a scene of domestic abuse in which a woman's ex stalks her and a male is punched in the face by his partner for breaking up with her.
sexual violence references, strong sex references, language, drug misuse
Classified Date:
07/03/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
The episode features strong language ('f**k') and uses of 'bitch', 'cock', 'dick', 'tits', 'wank', 'piss', 'arsehole', 'bloody', 'shit', 'whore' and 'God'.
sex
There are strong references to sex, including a scene in which a woman briefly looks at pornographic still images on her phone of a woman's breasts and buttocks. Undetailed references are made to 'gang bangs' and 'squirting'. There are also comic references to masturbation.
drugs
A man is shown preparing a line of cocaine. Two teenagers are also shown holding a bag of white powder during a flashback to the death of one of the girls.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A woman details her experiences of sexual harassment which included sexually abusive and coercive behaviour. For example, she recalls a man putting her hand on his penis.
additional issues
There are brief images of blood on a wall during a woman's flashback.
strong language, sex references, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
07/03/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A man is aggressive towards his wife from whom he is separated, gripping her by the arms and verbally abusing her. Later in a scene of threat she comes home to learn that he has invaded her home.
language
The episode features strong language ('f**k') and uses of 'cock', 'bollocks', 'piss', 'shit', 'bloody', 'Jesus' and 'Christ'.
sex
A young teenager is caught looking at pornography on a laptop and the scene includes brief visuals of breast nudity and the sound of sexual moaning, but no sight of sexual activity. There are also scenes which feature a video in which a man tells a young woman he wishes to make her 'come'.
additional issues
There is an undetailed verbal reference to sexual violence when a woman says she did consent to her boss when she was sixteen. A male boss touches a teenage intern's shoulder and then harasses her with text messages; however his behaviour is clearly condemned and the teenager stands up for herself. There is a brief image of a woman's dead body lying in a pool of blood. There are also references to addiction, and an addict steals prescription drugs from her colleague. A man in an AA meeting makes an undetailed reference to a failed suicide attempt.
strong violence, sex references, language
Classified Date:
07/03/2022
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
In a scene of strong violence a man attempts to choke and strangle a woman. In another scene it is implied a woman poisons a woman before a man poses her death as a suicide.
language
The episode features strong language ('f**k') and uses of 'arse', 'shit', 'bollocks', 'bullshit', 'bugger', 'balls', 'bloody', 'crap' and 'hell'.
sex
There are verbal references to 'sexual choking' as well as references to a teenager's death being down to a sex game that 'went wrong'. There's also a scene in which a woman engages in sex with a man who pushes her against a kitchen counter; however there is no strong on screen detail. There are also references to a schoolboy showing his friend pornography, but without any strong detail.
additional issues
There is a brief image of a woman's dead body lying in a pool of blood. A woman asks her colleague if she has ever been a victim of sexual assault; however there is no strong detail. 
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  • Classified date

    07/03/2022

  • Distributor

    RLJE International Ltd

  • Language

    English