The Thick Of It - Final Episode ever (for now)

[DiBiase is Good]

Did anyone else watch that tonight? This whole series has been fantastic but the hour-long special last week and then the finale tonight were two of the greatest shows I can recall in recent times.

Glenn's speech tonight was just beautiful. A fitting end to this work of genius.
Well, unless Armando Ianucci makes a special or two (which he has admitted is a possibility) that is.

[Wailing Fungus]

Thought this series got better and better with each episode, which was amazing from the start anyway. Malcolm's final speech in the Goolding Inquiry last week was phenomenal stuff.

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I've seen some fairly negative reactions to this series in another forum, not liking the Lib Dem characters and such. Mannion's been really good though I felt, and Capaldi is just fantastic.

I felt the ended seemed to be a bit lacking in something, not something I can put words to though.

['Foretold' Joker]

Great show if you haven't seen it and enjoy political satire go and watch it. (albeit British politics so might get lost in translation across the pond)

[Jiren]

I liked it

Mannion's laugh at Stuart was priceless

[Legion]

There needs to be some more.

This series and last, the ones after Chris Langham left, have been so very good and there was no firm end for every character, so it would be easy enough to have everyone back.

[hitch]

I question why they didn't have an hour long show as a finale.

You can imagine the next series. Malcolm ends up having the charges dropped, becomes a 'personality' in the media and in a year or two's time gets called in once more to help out the party at the general election, similar to what happened with Ailstair Campbell, and he does his whole 'the bitch is back' routine and once more becomes the beast at the helm of the party he once was.

Glen will get used as Malcom's right hand man during this process because of his consistency and organisational abilities and Tucker will bring him back into the party fold when he returns out of loyalty.

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Oct 27, 2012 17:35:53 GMT -5 @aido1888 said:

I've seen some fairly negative reactions to this series in another forum, not liking the Lib Dem characters and such. Mannion's been really good though I felt, and Capaldi is just fantastic.

It's been a series of highs and lows, but I think those characters are supposed to be completely unlikeable and awful. The way they always pick on Terri particularly is meant to get your blood boiling, they're two pathetic shells of men.

Anyway, last night's episode was glorious. I loved that Glenn was just going about his own business whilst the rest of his department were crumbling into dust, and his exit was exquisite. They could have gone all Hollywood with the exit speeches (Malcolm's almost crept into that territory, despite it being worthy of a hundred BAFTAs) but Glenn's speech genuinely felt like a man who despised the sight of the people he worked with, and rather than pause for a moment in shock after he left, they had pretty much all said 'good riddance' and got back on with panicking.

There was no real finality to the episode, unless the show revolves around Malcolm for you. I definitely think we'll at least get a Christmas special or something within the next few years, maybe just before the next election?

[hitch]

What I think lacked about the series was what made the series. Malcolm Tucker bossing it. He was only in half the episodes and was always either subdued or up against it. It didn't help that he didn't have nearly as much interaction with Murray or Ollie, at least the same kind of interaction he once had. None, aside from one scene with Glen or Terry or Robyn.

These people were the core of the show's success.

I did enjoy Peter Manion trying to cope with life at Dosac in a coalition although I felt the presence of the 'Lib Dem' partner and his advisor was unnecessary. Same as in the first series we rarely (if ever) saw other cabinet ministers. I think they could have shown Manion without seeing anyone else. Just have news of the 'coaltion' be fed through by advisors etc.

I'd have had Nicola Murray as the deputy leader of the opposition with Ollie and Glen as her advisors with Malcolm's job trying to tidy up the mess she creates with the side story being how Manion is coping with the imbeciles (including Terry) at Dosac.

[Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie]

it WON'T be the end!!!

because i want malcolm and OLLIE to face off!!!!!

the master and the student .....


unbelievably funny from start to finish, i've got all the series on dvd AND the movie too, and with the fourth series on tape i could spend all day watching it!

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Oct 27, 2012 19:20:45 GMT -5 Jiren said:

I liked it

Mannion's laugh at Stuart was priceless

It really was.

The problem with the Thick Of It is:

1. It's the most formulaic show ever made. Party does something stupid, swearing occurs. The only different one being the inquiry, which was absolutely brilliantly done and wasn't funny in the slightest.

2. It ended in a really anti-climactic fashion because that's how politicians meet their end. Not with a bang but with a whimper.

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Yeah, the self-conciousness of the swearing does become incredibly grating, but then there's times where it's used so skillfully and delivered so perfectly that it adds so much to the show (see Malcolm's speech last night, most of Jamie's stuff in previous series).

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

The swearing was absolutely hilarious and frequently brilliant. I'm not knocking the swearing. But if you've seen one episode of this show you've seen all of them.