look on my works, ye mighty, and despair

[grenadine]

I have been so completely Quatrro'd by the latest episode of The Thick of It that I don't honestly know what to say about it, except that over the course of the season, it's gone from being one of the finest comedies I've ever seen to one of the greatest television shows I've ever seen, full stop. There's a fine, fine line between comedy, satire,

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Yeah, I mean, it's not like it would've done any good for Nicola to say something there, since Steve Fleming (KILL IT. KILL IT WITH FIRE.) had already leaked Malcolm's "resignation" to the press, but still! She fucking ran away! It was so horrible and wrong that she couldn't even handle being in the room! Her face. Jesus Christ. I mean, the one person keeping her from drowning in the deep end is suddenly gone.

I look forward to that fight, that "OH THANK FUCKING YOU NICOLA FOR FUCKING HANGING ME OUT TO DRY" fight.

Oh, my God, it's going to be amazing.

Is Nicola going to end up RESIGNING?! He did promise her a way out at a later date...?

I...okay, I've always thought Nicola would no longer have her job at the end of the series, but that gets complicated by the entire government probably not having their jobs at the end of the series. So I can see some crazy scenario wherein Malcolm, using Nicola as a mole, gets his revenge by destroying the Government, and then if there is another series, it'll be with Peter Mannion and his group as the Government, and Malcolm and everyone else being the Opposition. But I don't know!

She takes the rap for the crime stats fuck-up, Malcolm gets his job back because it makes Steve Flemming look like THE ROYAL DOUCHE THAT HE IS, she gets her way-out exactly the way she wanted in Episode 4.

Because this is perfectly plausible, too! Also, would lead to a crazy staring tension moment, which...JESUS, YOU TWO, I DON'T EVEN HAVE TO TRY ANYMORE.