So funny it hurts, so savage it's scary. That's the classic British way with comedy and satire, as fans of the original Office can attest.
In much the same vein, including shaky hand-held cameras to give a documentary-style sense of realism (with nausea as a possible side effect), BBC America delivers another painfully hilarious winner in The Thick of It (Fridays at 9 pm/ET), about a government minister so ineffectual and insecure he makes the Office manager look like Boss of the Year.
As the six-episode series opens, the minister for social affairs is being fired by the show's reptilian villain, Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi), the prime minister's hatchet man. Filling this vague position with misguided optimism and bumbling social awkwardness comes po
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