The Thick of It

TV Show • 2005 • Comedy  

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Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
This tv show contains 13 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Is there body horror?
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Are there abusive parents?
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VeeElle
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 E6
The t-slur is used (about a cis person) in s3e06.
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Abandonment
Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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vincentdorian
No one is stalked, but Malcolm Tucker does mention having “spies” of sorts who follow people to gather intel on certain ministers, policies or The Opposition.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
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vincentdorian
Child abuse is implied by Malcolm Tucker when speaking of an unnamed shadow minister in Season 3 Episode 5.
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Addiction
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vincentdorian
A character uses antidepressants although he is not prescribed them, and Nicola Murray mentions taking ketamine and paracetamol during two separate anxiety attacks.
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Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Is an animal sad?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Is there pedophilia?
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Sammmmmmmmm
No, but Jamie makes an off-color joke about SA in the second special.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Are there dislocations?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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VeeElle
S2
 E3
Used as a noun in s2e03, and as an adjective in s3e02 and s3e06
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Family
Does a parent die?
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vincentdorian
Terri Coverly’s father dies, though not on screen. There’s only mentions of his death.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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vincentdorian
Not in-series, but part of Peter Mannion’s backstory is that he cheated on his wife with a house maid, leaving the maid pregnant with a love child.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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vincentdorian
In Season 4 Episode 4, Ollie Reeder is in hospital after getting his appendix taken out.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Is there misophonia?
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vincentdorian
Nicola Murray has anxiety attacks throughout the show - specifically Season 3 Episode 3 and Season 4 Episode 4.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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vincentdorian
Not shown on screen, but a character does commit suicide, which launches an inquiry into his death.
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Is there shakey cam?
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vincentdorian
The show is filmed in the style of a docuseries, so some scenes have shakey camera movements - such as Season 1 Episode 3, when Malcolm Tucker is running to DoSaC.
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JinglebellsMycroftsmells
Most of the characters use extremely obscene language.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Sammmmmmmmm
Only a mean-spirited reference to one.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
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Jethro
Not used against any lgbt people but a main part of the show is the excessive swearing which also features certain slurs
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Sammmmmmmmm
Malcolm makes a joke about Stephen Hawking. He also uses the r-slur at Nicola.
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vincentdorian
Ollie Reeder, a white man, says the n-word in one of the specials (unsure which one). It is not said with the hard ‘r’.
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Sammmmmmmmm
Malcolm warns that he knows about some politician who wears stockings and blackface.
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vincentdorian
No one is misgendered, but Malcolm Tucker does use the t-slur in reference to Nicola Murray (who isn’t trans).
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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vincentdorian
The only explicit hate speech I can think of is when Ben Swain makes racially charged remarks to a black cleaner in Richmond Terrace (not shown on screen, but mentioned by the cleaner as she speaks to Malcolm Tucker about it). Jamie McDonald and Malcolm Tucker also make jokes about Ollie Reeder being gay (when in reality, he isn’t). These jokes are sometimes aimed at the fact that he has a girlfriend who “doesn’t mind”, however the majority of them are name-calling (i.e. “Happy New Queer” said by Jamie, “Did you have a nice Poof-mas?” said by Malcolm).
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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Is there bestiality?
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alan001
There are jokes about it.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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vincentdorian
Many of Malcolm Tucker’s insults/“bollockings” include what he calls “violent sexual imagery”. Other characters also use this type of speech.
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Sickness
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Anonymous
S2
 E1
terri coverley’s father has a stroke and later dies, referenced in episodes 1 and 2 of season 2
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there gun violence?
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