
The Thick of It · Season 1 · BBC Four / BBC Two
The Thick of It Season 1
The Thick of It Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.0/10. 3 episodes on BBC Four / BBC Two from 19 May 2005.
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The Thick of It launched on BBC Four in May 2005 with three episodes and a cast-and-crew approach that was immediately identifiable: handheld cameras, partially improvised dialogue, and Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker operating as a pure force of political intimidation. Creator Armando Iannucci drew on the access journalism of shows like Yes Minister but collapsed the distance between satire and documentary realism, producing something that felt uncomfortably close to actual governmental dysfunction under New Labour. Metacritic registered 92 out of 100 from the five critics who reviewed it on debut, an extraordinary score for a three-episode run on a minority channel. The show was immediately identified as essential British comedy.
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