The Thick of It: Season 1

Peter Capaldi <3

Mixed feelings after the first episode. I think the series will fully manifest itself further

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You know as well as I do, If you're going to make an omelette, you're going to have some frank and honest discussion with the eggs.

It reminded me a lot of the fuss at my job. "Worth it" in the sense of yes or no. You shouldn't have done it if he said it was worth it. That's why you did what you did. Oh, my God, that sounds familiar. And I thought such a madhouse was only in our country.

A modern, rigid and deliberately uncomplicated development of the theme of the series "Yes, Minister". The corridors of British power, and in them - stupidity, pettiness, intrigue, commercialism, unprofessionalism, empty worries, stormy departmental and party squabbles and the terrible Malcolm Tucker. He is the main character and the protagonist of the series, even when he is absent from the frame. The formidable political strategist is rude and aggressive with the opposition and journalists, and for government workers he is just a waking nightmare around the clock. Everyone from secretaries to ministers is afraid of his sarcastic remarks, commands and inventive swearing. It's not a fact that under the pressure of his unbridled pressure and vocabulary, they make fewer stupid mistakes or at least look less idiots, but the viewer is definitely more fun.

In addition to the stressful everyday life of the bureaucracy, the authors also slightly traveled through modern diseases of democracy, including formalism, stereotyping and unscrupulousness of PR, superficiality, with all their might, populism and hypocrisy of the media, whose vulgar passion to slap a brighter headline in many ways provokes the fruitlessness of the mouse fuss of bureaucrats, senior officials and politicians.