• The Thick Of It
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[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/The_Thick_of_It_title.jpg[/IMG] The thick of it is a satirical comedy about British Politics with the first 2 series' focusing on the [I]Department for Social Affairs (in Series 2 it is The Department for Social Affairs and Citizenship) Or DoSA and DoSAC [/I] Currently in its forth season it shows the inner fighting in the department due to the coalition. The show follows the fuck ups of the government and their quick fix schemes and lies to put things right, under, as he is called in series 3, [I]The All Swearing Eye[/I] Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) The feared Director of Communications for the government and the Prime-minister's enforcer, he is constantly dishing out death threats and profanities and anyone/everyone much like the Gunnery Sergeant Hartman character in Full Metal Jacket, you get a feel for Malcolm as one of his opening lines is: He's as useless as a marzipan dildo, when talking about a politician on the phone. The series' are very well written and executed presenting a very believable perspective on British Politics, You can catch the show on Netflix (Series' 1-3) and Series 4 is being showed on BBC2 on Saturday's at 9:45PM And the first episode is available on BBC iPlayer [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00wsskj/The_Thick_of_It_Series_4_Episode_1/"]here[/URL] [B]Characters:[/B] [IMG]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/10/14/1255534407037/peter-capaldi-thick-of-it-001.jpg[/IMG] Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) is the aggressive, profane and feared director of communications for the government. He serves two main roles: acting as the prime minister's enforcer to ensure the cabinet ministers all follow the party line, and managing the government's crisis management PR, usually in the form of spin. He regularly uses smears or threats of violence to achieve his ends. [IMG]http://persephonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/thick460.jpg[/IMG] Rt Hon Hugh Abbot MP (Chris Langham) is the Secretary of State for Social Affairs (later Social Affairs and Citizenship) in series 1 and 2. He is an inept cabinet minister who is generally out-of-touch with his electorate. While he believes he has some influence, he often finds himself at the mercy of events and bearing the brunt of Tucker's vitriol. [IMG]http://kistenet.com/brandon/images/Blog/2011/March/The%20Thick%20of%20It%20-%20Nicola%20Murray.jpg[/IMG] Rt Hon Nicola Murray MP (Rebecca Front) replaces Hugh Abbot for series 3. She is promoted to Social Affairs and Citizenship Secretary as a last-minute choice in a government reshuffle in the run up to a general election. Inexperienced and naive, she begins her tenure poorly with a number of public embarrassments over her husband's career. [IMG]http://www.comedy.co.uk/images/library/comedies/300/t/the_thick_of_it_5.jpg[/IMG] Glenn Cullen (James Smith) is senior special adviser to the minister. A long-standing friend of Hugh's since the campaign days, he acts as his chief adviser. He is generally politically adept, often being a voice of sense within the series, although due to his age is often ignored and emasculated by younger members of staff.[19] Despite a number of mishaps, such as swearing at a member of the public who confronts Abbot, he keeps his job due to his loyalty to Hugh. [IMG]http://cdn.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/multimedia/dynamic/00543/Showbiz_10-1_jpg_543565t.jpg[/IMG] Oliver "Ollie" Reeder (Chris Addison) is a special adviser to the secretary of state (formerly junior policy adviser) to Hugh Abbot and his replacement, Nicola Murray. An Oxbridge graduate from Lincolnshire, he is arrogant, inept, inexperienced, somewhat gawky and is often inadvertently the cause of departmental mistakes. However, the minister often takes up his ideas believing them to be vote-winners. [IMG]http://images.wikia.com/thethickofit/images/3/33/Terri.png[/IMG] Terri Coverley (Joanna Scanlan) is director of communications for the department. Notionally responsible for press relations at DoSAC, Coverley was head of press recruited from supermarket chain Waitrose as part of an ill-advised scheme to make government run like a business
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Been a big fan of this show for a while, not sure how I feel about the new series though..
New series is no where near as good as the peak reached in series 3. Still good though.
also I'm severely disappointed with the lack of jamie in the OP [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk75R9uTMmo[/media]
New series is fine by me. Specially like the bit Malcom told the dad from My Parents are Aliens he's a cunt. Malcolm Tucker is a great character.
i love the new dialogue in season 4, especially malcolm tucker's
I don't really like the new Lib Dem characters. The nice guy shouting like a prick act was done with Steve Fleming so I dunno why the Junior Minister does it too. Plus I think Glenn works better when him and Oli are paired. They riff well off each other. I do like the Tory characters though so I'm glad we see more of them this series!
The new episode was great, it's still not as vitriolic as it was but it was very good nontheless
Last night's episode was so funny. "It's all swings and roundabouts Peter" Peter was getting so pissed off it was so funny
No trailer for next week? Gutting. Well getting into this.
No new episode this week because The Beatles. What did we think of the downfall of Murray last week? Fucking hilarious. Each episode gets better.
i don't like malcolm being only in every second episode
It shouldn't really be the Malcom Tucker show though, even though I'd love it. The writer of the show already has a sitcom based around a single person in the form of Alan Partridge. I wonder if Partridge takes place in the same fictional universe as this. How good would it be for Malcom to appear in the upcoming Patridge movie on Alans chat show or something. I hope the "To be continued" is leading to a meet up episode between both parties. I want Malcom to destroy Terri and those other shits. Got the feeling Dan will fire Malcom if he got power, first rule of a completed conspiracy is to execute other conspirators.
It kind of was the Malcolm show before, that's what was so great about it. Even in the movie spinoff, they had the same actors playing different characters. Except Malcolm. He was still Malcolm
[QUOTE=Dan2593;37895329]No new episode this week because The Beatles. What did we think of the downfall of Murray last week? Fucking hilarious. Each episode gets better.[/QUOTE] "Yeah, Waste of skin" "I've got an app here that can throw grenades into peoples dreams" "I'm heading in the direction of confection" "Mr. Stoics taking it on the chin" Best episode yet! Olly and Glenn got back together <3
"I need you two to make like a tree and go fuck yourselves"
the highlight was the "good fucking riddance" balloon with nicola's face on
"Christ was a scruffy man"
[QUOTE=Acezorz;37897689]"I need you two to make like a tree and go fuck yourselves"[/QUOTE] i've heard that before though. in fact i've even used that before. where is it from?
Just a saying. Loads of versions "Make like a banana and split". They deliberately get it wrong in Back to the Future. [editline]4th October 2012[/editline] "Make like a tree and leave" is probably the most popular.
This episode was golden. I love Peter Mannion. "Shut the fuck up you prancing shit"
Dunno if anyone caught last saturdays episode, but I thought it was great. Malcolm really got fucked up over it all.
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