Final
three episodes of The Thick of It. Just as a heads up, it’s going to be like the
last few days of Neverwhere around
the ole blog, in that the details will be much harder to come by. More than any other, the show’s last season
follows a very definite trajectory,
and there are major plot developments flying left and right. I’ll try and be as River Song as I can about
spoilers.
The day
of reckoning Malcom launched in the last episode tremors through the whole of
this one, sending aftershocks as everyone begins to realize things about to get
much worse. Jamie once likened the
British political machine to “plague pits,” the implication being that no one’s
hands are clean and no one has the right to act superior. However, getting one’s hands dirty in plague
pits also has the nasty tendency to get one killed by the plague. While no one’s life is physically in danger
in this episode (although I wouldn’t have been surprised if Malcolm had had a
heart attack,) all of their careers are very much at risk. The stakes keep piling higher and higher
until they’re all anyone can see by episode’s end.
Another
character added for series 4 is Fergus Williams, junior minister. I’ve not mentioned him before because most of
his screentime so far has been in the Malcolm-less episodes I didn’t
review. But everyone is around for the
remainder of the series, so I can talk about him now. He’s a member of a third party that has
formed a coalition with Peter Mannion’s crew.
He’s smug, thinks of himself as “innovative,” and can’t stand Peter (of
course.) The two spent a good part of
episodes 1 and 3 trying to undercut one another. Also, he has an incredibly goofy run that he
wishes was as effortlessly hilarious as Malcolm’s.
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