Season 2

Watch The Thick of It (2005) Season 2 online on iFILM — three more episodes of Armando Iannucci's savage take on British government, with Hugh Abbot still clinging to the Social Affairs brief and the ground still shifting under him.

It opens on a disaster. A ministerial factory visit goes badly wrong, and only Malcolm Tucker can fix it — if he feels like it. Then a cabinet reshuffle starts circling, and the PM's new "blue skies" advisor turns up to make everything worse. The run ends with an email no one should have sent and Hugh lying to a Select Committee, the noose pulling tighter by the scene. Peter Capaldi steals every room he enters with profanity raised to an art form.

Same lurching camera, same absence of music, sharper and meaner jokes. Short but dense, this batch finds its rhythm faster than the first. Watch all of Season 2's episodes online on iFILM.