Episode 12005-05-19
The Thick of It's BBC Four premiere is the origin point of modern British political satire. Armando Iannucci's half-hour mockumentary drops viewers into a government department in perpetual crisis, where hapless minister Hugh Abbot and his team respond to media and party leadership pressure with the specific incompetence that the series transforms into a comedy of institutional entropy. The first episode establishes Malcolm Tucker as the most intimidating figure in British television comedy.
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