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The Thick of It · Season 4 · BBC Four / BBC Two

The Thick of It Season 4

The Thick of It Season 4 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.2/10. 7 episodes on BBC Four / BBC Two from 8 September 2012.

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BollyMeter9.2/1088 percent Rotten Tomatoes from 16 critics - the show's largest sample - with an audience score of 93 percent, and a critical consensus calling it the peak of the series; IMDb 8.7 series rating confirms cumulative prestige status.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Series 4 aired September to October 2012 and encompassed a public inquiry storyline that brought Malcolm Tucker's decade of political violence to formal reckoning. Critics on Rotten Tomatoes awarded 88 percent from 16 reviews - the largest critical sample the show ever attracted - with the consensus specifically noting that Iannucci chose the show's highest creative peak as his exit point. Peter Capaldi's Malcolm Tucker in the inquiry witness stand across the final episodes was widely described as career-defining television performance. James Poniewozik in TIME noted the show's political specificity as its bite: the satire worked because it was grounded in actual British governmental culture, not generic political caricature. The finale aired 27 October 2012 and ended the show without nostalgia.

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88%critics positive · n=168.7/10IMDb audience
  • One of the great strengths of the series is that while its situations seem straight out of caricature, its characters do not.
    Vulture
  • Armando Ianucci's gloriously profane satire concludes at the peak of its dyspeptic hilarity.
    Rotten Tomatoes critics consensus

Season Over Season

The show's largest critical audience and highest Rotten Tomatoes sample; the inquiry arc brings Malcolm Tucker's arc to a formally and emotionally complete close.