‘Yes, Minister’ is quasi-libertarian Tory propaganda in disguise. Some of the only conservative comedy that has ever made me laugh. https://web.archive.org/web/20150501052851/http://reviewsindepth.com/2010/03/yes-prime-minister-the-most-cunning-political-propaganda-ever-conceived/ …
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Meh. This is a silly reading of the show. Good writing is good precisely because it tends to break out of any ideological objectives the author has. If it doesn’t it is a literary failure like Ayn Rand. YPM is satire first, ideology second, and propaganda only to the paranoid.
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Yes Minister is the original deep state conspiracy
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The Thick of It doesn’t feel so old yet. It was always kind of hard to watch and still is: it’s dreadful, but it’s dreadful in a very funny way.
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I lived in London 96-06 and was planning to binge re-watching some of that for Xmas but fuck if I’m even gonna do “The New Stateman” now. I’m never very optimistic about human nature but was expecting a hung parliament...Who knows maybe we’ll get a bunch of good shows out of this
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I think they should reboot the thick of it. Veep worked so well last couple years.
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I never watched The Thick of It at the time. Tried starting it a few months ago and it made me angry and nauseous so I stopped
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It's a bit like how House of Cards went from "Oh my god, how shocking, what if it's really like that?" to "Ahhh, a Dem president getting stuff done, that's nice."
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I am neither Brit not American but recent years did stop me from enjoying Veep and Thick of It
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