Foreshadowing David Fincher's The Game by several years. The One Game is a surreal thriller with an Arthurian bent.
Nicholas Thorne (Stephen Dillane) is the arrogant and successful head of a software company. His job is not to create the games but by marketing them.
The first episode portrays Thorne as unlikeable. Stalking him is the sinister Magnus (Patrick Malahide) who looks like an ex business partner betrayed by Thorne.
Magnus wants revenge, push him off his throne. Magnus has now designed a reality game and Thorne is right in the middle of it. The first thing that happens is several million pounds has disappeared from his company bank account. Money that has vanished and leaves the firm insolvent.
Then Thorne gets a cryptic message to meet at a shopping precinct where he is chased by some skinheads. He then sees his ex wife get abducted.
The first episode is the set up and the beginning of the game. Thorne was supposedly based on Richard Branson. Now he comes across more like Steve Jobs. Another person who was more of a salesman than a programmer or even an ideas man. Jobs could perfect a product and get the consumer to really want it. Jobs was also not as nice and cuddly as his publicity wanted to portray him as.
Made in 1988 it was made while computers were still in its infancy. The screens are still green and black. Although there is a taste of cyberbanking with little security, hence the company has its money stolen. There is even a hint of a smart home, Magnus gets into his house by waving his hand at a sensor.
The series has a bewigged Patrick Malahide but so far he just needs to looks shifty. He also comes across as villainous, the first episode sees him weilding a knife and a man falls out of a window to his death.
Nicholas Thorne (Stephen Dillane) is the arrogant and successful head of a software company. His job is not to create the games but by marketing them.
The first episode portrays Thorne as unlikeable. Stalking him is the sinister Magnus (Patrick Malahide) who looks like an ex business partner betrayed by Thorne.
Magnus wants revenge, push him off his throne. Magnus has now designed a reality game and Thorne is right in the middle of it. The first thing that happens is several million pounds has disappeared from his company bank account. Money that has vanished and leaves the firm insolvent.
Then Thorne gets a cryptic message to meet at a shopping precinct where he is chased by some skinheads. He then sees his ex wife get abducted.
The first episode is the set up and the beginning of the game. Thorne was supposedly based on Richard Branson. Now he comes across more like Steve Jobs. Another person who was more of a salesman than a programmer or even an ideas man. Jobs could perfect a product and get the consumer to really want it. Jobs was also not as nice and cuddly as his publicity wanted to portray him as.
Made in 1988 it was made while computers were still in its infancy. The screens are still green and black. Although there is a taste of cyberbanking with little security, hence the company has its money stolen. There is even a hint of a smart home, Magnus gets into his house by waving his hand at a sensor.
The series has a bewigged Patrick Malahide but so far he just needs to looks shifty. He also comes across as villainous, the first episode sees him weilding a knife and a man falls out of a window to his death.