The Thick of It

[Heath]

A forum with a swear filter is probably not the best place to discuss this series, but oh well!

I watched what appears to have been the final episode this evening. If that old adage about leaving the stage with the audience wanting more is true, then I definitely wanted more. Although it tied up some threads (e.g. with Stewart and Glenn), it left others (Malcolm, in particular) on such a cliffhanger.

The programme itself is without a doubt my favourite television series of the past decade. The scriptwriting is genius, the characters very believable and it appeals to the political nerd in me. I'm not normally a fan of excessive swearing, but I think the sheer artistry of Malcolm Tucker's cursing is so hilarious I actually rather like it.

If you haven't watched it, you definitely should. Check out In The Loop first maybe.

As a bonus topic - what's your favourite quote? One of my personal favourites was from one of the specials:

Peter - "This is the trouble with the public, they're smurfing horrible."
Emma - "Peter, you can't say the public are smurfing horrible."
Peter - "Yes, I can, I've met them"

[Old Manus]

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TToI is the funniest programme I've ever bothered to watch. The writing is phenomenal and Peter Capaldi nails it every time.

Of the current series I've only watched the first two, and was pretty disappointed to be honest. The first episode was probably up there in the most unfunny hours of television I've watched. The second was better, but still not up to much imo, and I stopped bothering after that. If you can convince me that the remainder of the series lived up to the mastery of Series 1&3&Specials, I'll probably look it up on iPlayer or something.

Malcolm: We are in a prison drama. This is like The Shawshank Redemption, only with more tunneling through trout and no smurfing redemption.