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The Thick of It · Season 3 · BBC Four / BBC Two

The Thick of It Season 3

The Thick of It Season 3 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.1/10. 8 episodes on BBC Four / BBC Two from 24 October 2009.

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BollyMeter9.1/10Rotten Tomatoes 83 percent from 6 critics, combined with the longest run and a cast refresh (Rebecca Front's Nicola Murray replacing Hugh Abbot) that multiple reviewers called a creative reinvigoration rather than a compromise.

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What BollyAI Thinks

After a gap that included the 2007 specials (bridging the Blair-Brown transition), Series 3 returned in October 2009 with a full eight-episode run and a new minister: Rebecca Front's Nicola Murray, whose combination of personal decency and political haplessness produced comedy more uncomfortable than Hugh Abbot's simple cowardice. The series also introduced the opposition party - The Nutters - through characters like Stewart Pearson and Fergus Williams, widening the show's satirical range from one dysfunctional department to a systemic critique of Westminster culture. Rotten Tomatoes recorded 83 percent from 6 critics. The expansion in episode count gave the show room to develop longer comic arcs than its three-episode debut runs had permitted.

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Season Over Season

Expanded to eight episodes with a cast refresh; the introduction of opposition characters turns the show from departmental satire into whole-system critique.