The Thick of It
The Thick of It Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.8 | ||||||
| S2 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 7.5 | |||
| S3 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.7 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.1 | |
| S4 | 8.1 | 7.4 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 8.3 |
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"Government as a never-ending, foul-mouthed disaster"
A savage, semi-improvised satire of British government life, following hapless ministers, spin doctors, and civil servants as they lurch from one self-inflicted crisis to the next. There's no real plot beyond the daily scramble to avoid humiliation, and that's the point: it's about incompetence, ego, and survival dressed up as policy-making. The tone is rapid-fire, profane, and merciless, powered by whip-smart improvised dialogue and one of TV's great foul-mouthed enforcers. It's dense, quotable, and exhausting in the best way, more character-driven farce than sitcom, and it rewards close attention to who's currently losing.
the blistering improvised insults and one of television's greatest political enforcers.
you dislike constant swearing or humor rooted in cringing secondhand embarrassment.
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