The Thick of It S3: DVD Review

The Thick of It S3: DVD Review

The Thick Of It Season 3
Rating: M
Released by BBC and Roadshow
The ferociously satiric comedy The Thick Of It returns with a slight retooling for its third year's outing.
The jerky camera work's still there and the humour is as dry as ever before but the dynamic's shifted with more of an emphasis on Peter Capaldi's brilliant spin doctor Malcolm Tucker. Once again though, the target is still the ineptitude of politicians, focus groups and petty office squabbles as the election's taken in and backstabbing aplenty reigns.
All in all, this series continues to impress - from Peter Capaldi's great performance of bile and bluster as the spin doctor, there's little to match him on the comedy front. With smart writing from some of the UK's best comedy brains, this really is superlatively intelligent and ferociously funny stuff.
A fourth series is planned for 2012 but for now, there are three series of pure brilliance to fall back into and wallow in the best creative and savage comedy to have come out of the UK in a very long time.

Rating: 7/10