The Thick of It: Series 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of The Thick of It Season 3.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Networked Nation
Sep 8, 2012 · 29 min
Peter Mannion, the Secretary of State for Social Affairs, gets told to launch his Coalition partner Fergus's new 'Networked Nation' policy at a school.
New Advisor
Sep 15, 2012 · 28 min
With Glenn gone, Nicola Murray is busy breaking in her new policy advisor, Helen Hatley. When Helen is accidentally photographed holding notes from an ideas meeting, Nicola is unde
Thought Camp
Sep 22, 2012 · 29 min
Stewart Pearson is running 'Thought Camp' at a remote country house hotel, as the perfect way to re-engage the party with the creative cloudscape.
Hear 2 Hear
Sep 29, 2012 · 29 min
With Nicola safely on a train to attend the party's Here 2 Hear in far-flung Bradford, Malcolm is free to launch his latest plot.
The Leak
Oct 6, 2012 · 29 min
With Nicola Murray and Peter Mannion both on the back foot after the unravelling of the key-worker housing sell-off policy there's inevitably going to be a scramble for the moral h
The Inquiry
Oct 13, 2012 · 59 min
The government, opposition and civil service are called before Lord Goolding's inquiry.
The Final Reckoning
Oct 20, 2012 · 29 min
Dan Miller gets sent on a fact-finding mission to the local cop-shop to press the flesh.