Game of Silence | |
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Created by | Pınar Bulut |
Based on | Suskunlar by Pınar Bulut |
Developed by | David Hudgins |
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Composer | John Debney |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 10 |
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Producer | Jean Higgins |
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Camera setup | Single-camera |
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Network | NBC |
Release | April 12 June 5, 2016 | –
Game of Silence is an American crime drama television series based on the Turkish series Suskunlar (English original title: Game of Silence) which is based on the true story of children who were sentenced in absentia to nine years in prison on the charge of stealing a baklava car in Gaziantep in 1997.
Timur Savcı, who was in the original series, is a producer of Game of Silence. Other producers are David Hudgins, Carol Mendelsohn, Julie Weitz, Niels Arden Oplev, and Tariq Jalil.[1] The series premiered as a "preview" on April 12, 2016. It then debuted in its regular Thursday at 10:00 PM timeslot on April 14, 2016, and aired until June 5, 2016.[2][3] On May 13, 2016, NBC cancelled the series after one season.[4]
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Pilot" | Niels Arden Oplev | Teleplay by : David Hudgins | April 12, 2016 | 6.41[6] |
2 | "Blood Brothers" | Deran Sarafian | Wendy West | April 14, 2016 | 3.90[7] |
3 | "Hurricane Gil" | Dave Rodriquez | Christopher Fife | April 21, 2016 | 3.35[8] |
4 | "The Uninvited" | Kimberly Peirce | Tom Mularz | April 28, 2016 | 3.08[9] |
5 | "Ghosts of Quitman" | Bill Johnson | Ian Deitchman & Kristen Rusk Robinson | May 5, 2016 | 3.26[10] |
6 | "Into the Black" | Holly Dale | Jerome Hairston | May 12, 2016 | 3.26[11] |
7 | "Road Trip" | Peter Weller | Hayley Tyler | May 19, 2016 | 3.21[12] |
8 | "Hey" | Robert Mandel | Hiram Martinez | June 2, 2016 | 2.26[13] |
9 | "The Truth" | Brad Tanenbaum | Kurt Voelker | June 2, 2016 | 2.26[13] |
10 | "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune" | Deran Sarafian | David Hudgins | June 5, 2016 | 2.40[14] |
On Metacritic, the series holds an average score of 58 (out of 100 points) based on 21 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[15] Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 11 of 19 critical responses were negative, averaging a 42% rating. The site's consensus reads: "Competent acting and a sufficiently intriguing premise aren't enough to make up for Game of Silence's unnecessarily convoluted, heavily clichéd storytelling."[16]