The Inquiry
So this week's Thick of It
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I'm finding it harder and harder to process this show every week.
So is this the end of Malcolm Tucker? Instead of going down swearing fire vengeance on who ever fucked him or having a massive heart attack, it's the moment in this episode when he doesn't know what to say, when he hadn't got an answer or a retort because he broke the freaking law, and they know it because they caught him with his own web and he's probably going to go to prison.
Please let it be. It's kind of perfect.
Also: Peter Capaldi is an acting god. Apparently there was no rehearsals for this episode. They just chucked the actors in it, which just goes to show how amazing the cast is in general.
I loved that clearly things were going on outside the inquiry chambers, Malcolm was obviously trying to drag down the enquiry by feeding stories.
Anyway, this episode. Just this episode. A straight hour of the characters just getting ripped to pieces for being the lousy human beings that they are, followed by Malcolm's great speech about the abandonment of morality by the political class, because that's the whole point of this show really. The characters are horrible and do horrible things, but it's always been because of the environment they're in - in which it's all about the pursuit of power and in which they're constantly under siege. Whether or not they've created the environment the show hasn't answered, but I do think that they've shown over the years that even the idealists (like Nicola) and otherwise generally decent people (like Glenn and Peter) are pulled into the mud with everyone else so there is no escaping it.
This show is amazing. I know I say that a lot about a lot of things, I'm not one for holding back praise, but I really, really mean it. This show is amazing. It this is indeed the last season and next week's episode is the show's last, I hope the writers, cast and crew know that they've made one of the greatest television shows of all time.
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I'm finding it harder and harder to process this show every week.
So is this the end of Malcolm Tucker? Instead of going down swearing fire vengeance on who ever fucked him or having a massive heart attack, it's the moment in this episode when he doesn't know what to say, when he hadn't got an answer or a retort because he broke the freaking law, and they know it because they caught him with his own web and he's probably going to go to prison.
Please let it be. It's kind of perfect.
Also: Peter Capaldi is an acting god. Apparently there was no rehearsals for this episode. They just chucked the actors in it, which just goes to show how amazing the cast is in general.
I loved that clearly things were going on outside the inquiry chambers, Malcolm was obviously trying to drag down the enquiry by feeding stories.
Anyway, this episode. Just this episode. A straight hour of the characters just getting ripped to pieces for being the lousy human beings that they are, followed by Malcolm's great speech about the abandonment of morality by the political class, because that's the whole point of this show really. The characters are horrible and do horrible things, but it's always been because of the environment they're in - in which it's all about the pursuit of power and in which they're constantly under siege. Whether or not they've created the environment the show hasn't answered, but I do think that they've shown over the years that even the idealists (like Nicola) and otherwise generally decent people (like Glenn and Peter) are pulled into the mud with everyone else so there is no escaping it.
This show is amazing. I know I say that a lot about a lot of things, I'm not one for holding back praise, but I really, really mean it. This show is amazing. It this is indeed the last season and next week's episode is the show's last, I hope the writers, cast and crew know that they've made one of the greatest television shows of all time.