I never got round to seeing the first season or In the Loop. Incidentally, there have been so many plaudits for TTOI that it's hard to believe that the current one is only the second proper series of it.
I'm loving this series and intend to buy the previous installments on DVD (or get the wife to do so for Xmas). Tucker is absolutely brilliant - Capaldi deserves every award he's got and more. The rest of the cast are also superb and the script is amazing. Never know there were so many inventive ways to insult people.
Be interesting to see how they bring Malcolm back next week - then again, Alastair Campbell is currently advising the government, so resignations are never the end for these guys. I wonder also if they'll be able to keep it going if there's a change of government next year - Malcolm in oppositon could be fun too.