Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 how did i miss that this has been on since october! damn you uk watmmers for not telling me. just caught up on episodes 1-8 yesterday. good good shit. i expected it to dip but its still a great show. how many episodes in a series? removing the paedos name from the office door was a nice touch malcolm tucker hasn't annnoyed me at all. which i was worried he would after the in the loop movie. the MP from in the loop is back as 'the fucker' the guy from the thin blue line is tuckers rival. i thought he was overplaying it at first but he reminded me of someone so it felt realish. the new female MP...her from (blue) jam... is ok. shes brave and incompetent. why do glenn and ollie leave when the election is announced? argh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 sorry mate. Don't get aggro, Didn't meant to be a wanker and diddle you. I meant to knock you up, but life is busy these days innit? So, this show is not for the blinkered, but its not blooming likely they'll find it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 my favorite show of the moment besides Always sunny in philadelphia. i had no idea it was up to episode 8 already, great news! *downloads* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stoppit Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Episode 8 was the last of the series I think. I liked 'the fucker' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klanty Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Yeah. It wasn't quite as good as the first series or the specials but had a few episodes that were up there. It might also be the last series, I'm sure I'd read somewhere before this one started that it might not come back but then Armando was talking about the next series in the red button bit like it would be happening. They seemed to be assembling an opposition cast in the last episode, which would be some small consolation if the Tories won the next election. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Karnov Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I'm sure I've read an interview with Armando Iannuci elsewhere saying it will be back, and as stated above, the opposition cast seem to be featuring a bit more prominently. Not sure about "The Fucker" - he seems a bit too much like Malcolm, and I just thought of Simon Foster in In The Loop when I saw him. A couple of the opposition characters look interesting; so if the Tories do get in, they can feature more heavily. I think Peter Mannion comes across as a good character. I liked Malcolm's new fleece-wearing personality, which disappeared as soon as his suit came back from the dry cleaners. The whole series has been one of the best things on TV for ages. Dragon's Den for Children in Need? "I'd rather fuck a real dragon." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Thick of It's absolutely fucking amazing even just for Tucker. haven't seen any of series 2 at all yet for some reason. only really discovered it a few months ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 sector 4 pathfinders!! inspiring each other out of poverty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 looks like that was the last in the series. said "to be continued" i think at the end. the start of epsiode 7 was hilarious. glenn cracking really bad dad type jokes the tories won't get in surely? irl. doesn't everyone hate david cameron? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dirty Protest Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Im sure there be another series, next year is an election year, thers no way they could let that go past. I do miss Jamie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzszTRCoj44 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Karnov Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 the tories won't get in surely? irl. doesn't everyone hate david cameron? Everyone I know does, but then again no-one I know buys the Daily Mail and watches Eastenders, but both are inexplicably popular. Hopefully the Sun and their influencial ilk backing "Dave" won't have too big an influence. Time to pick up weapons and throw them aty the "fucking ROBOTS" coming over the hill... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IRARI Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 a series is the sum total of all the individual episodes, and a season is what you are referring to as a series... that's how it's done in america Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dirty Protest Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 At the BBC a season is Autumn. Another thing ya'll cant get right =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 a series is the sum total of all the individual episodes, and a season is what you are referring to as a series... that's how it's done in america yeh its a bit confusing. a US season = a UK series a US series = a UK ? - do we have a name for an entire show run? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blir Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 the tories won't get in surely? irl. doesn't everyone hate david cameron? Think everyone hates Brown more. I have literally never heard a supportive word for him. I'll be surprised if Labour survive the next election. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 i loved 'the fucker' in the last episode 'what i really want to do is shoot you all in the back of the head, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, but i can't because it's ILLEGAL' i want to see him and malcolm spar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehauntingsoul Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 my favorite show of the moment besides Always sunny in philadelphia. i had no idea it was up to episode 8 already, great news! *downloads* woah there Awp you're going DANGEROUSLY fast there, you've most certainly sold me on the show, dling now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 it's a very different show, but i think if you have an appreciation of british comedy & profanity you will enjoy the thick of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blir Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 it's a very different show, but i think if you have an appreciation of british comedy & profanity you will enjoy the thick of it Your avatar is the reason I checked this show out, weirdly enough. I was familiar with Peter Capaldi and In The Loop, but not seen the shows or the film. I thought I had to watch it if an American can appreciate it (I mean, British comedy doesn't usually translate so well, so to speak). I fucking LOVE this show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 i tried to show it to some americans who are big fans of the british Office but i think most of it went over their head. besides my wife i think i love british comedy stuff more than most people i know, im a big Monty Python series fan as well as a regular watcher of the stuff they used to air on KQED here like Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers and Mr. Bean (probably the 'safest' british comedy for americans) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blir Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Yeah, it has that hostility and bluntness that is just lost on most of America I think. Probably because of the more upbeat attitude of most American comedy I suppose. This is purely speculation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 you're mostly right in so far as that even some of the better shows still try to tug at the heart strings or make you really sympathize with a particular character in an overwrought way. the only show i have seen lately that throws these rules out the window is Always sunny in philadelphia, which is definitely the most depraved non punch pulling comedy show on american TV right now. did you hear about the bombed pilot for an American cast version of The Thick of it? Characters Albert Alger (played by John Michael Higgins) - the main character and a newly-elected Congressman. Malcolm Tucker (played by Oliver Platt) - protective and intimidating committee chairman. Glen Glahm (played by Michael McKean) - Alger's scatterbrained chief of staff. Ollie Tadzio (played by Rhea Seehorn) - Alger's young and ambitious speech writer. Hope Mueller (played by Alex Borstein) - Alger's press secretary that he inherited from the previous Congressman. Taylor (played by Wayne Wilderson) - an ambitious political blogger. i'm curious to see it, but i can't imagine it would be very good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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