Years & Years

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Starts tonight 9pm
Family drama that flashes forward into the future.

Wow, that was powerful stuff.

Watching with subtitles, when Signor talked it said “male and female voice” FYI.

According to the Guardian article, RTD has been
bringing the ideas for this together for 25 years and one of the first things he had in his mind was that last scene.

Muriel’s rant was totally awesome. We should all write it down, read it every day and take it to heart.

I posted a radio times interview with RTD liz
It mentioned a happy ending for Bethany and that the final scene was something he'd thought of years ago and how originally Viktor not Daniel was scripted to die
Final scene was like River Song being uploaded in Moffatt's silence in library

Jessica Hynes is just bloody brilliant though, isn’t she.

Also...if Brexit had happened how the hell was Steven living in Barca teaching English to Spaniards?

People have and do live and work in other countries inside and outside the EU and they did even before there was an EU.

So many of the cast were.

It was dedicated to RTDs husband who died from a brain tumour.

How dreadful. Making that last scene must have been so hard for him.

“Beware those men, the jokers and the tricksters and the clowns. They will laugh us into Hell.”

Fair play, Russell T has got Boris down pat.

....and Trump

I really enjoyed it. I loved the final message. Love is everything. That's all it's about. Hence forgiving Steven, (but as I understood it, he was maybe working there whilst compiling evidence. I think getting rid of Victor would have been part of that, as he knew it would have riled the women in his family)

And they were a very loving and forgiving family. My family are still holding thirty year old grudges over things like wearing the wrong colored tie wish I was kidding

Yes moo but I thought they had alluded to Brexit having happened in episode 2 - whilst I am a bremoaner, it is going to make it difficult to live/work/travel freely in the EU...it is difficult enough already (I am an expat in Germany, we got asked to get our affairs in order a couple of months ago, DB teaches English in Spain and will probably have to get citizenship, you can freelance doing tefl in Germany but it doesn't pay amazingly well and as German companies already have to justify why jobs are not going to Germans first then anyone thinking Brexit won't have an impact are kidding themselves).

I think getting rid of Victor would have been part of that, as he knew it would have riled the women in his family
I don't think that was part of a greater plan boo it was revenge pure and simple. It annoyed me that Celeste did not put him straight when he accused her of telling Bethany what he had done when it was in fact the other way round

@Roomba, I think Florence Nightingale had taken to her bed by the time of the Boer Wars. She's more associated with the much earlier Crimean Way of the 1850s.

Fair play, Russell T has got Boris down pat
Indeed - a shame the buffoon proclaimimg ignorance with the silly tie did not have bojo hair

Rage FFS dont start a brexit rant.

I KNOW BREXIT WILL BE HAVING A MAJOR IMPACT ON EVERYONE.

ok?

I was pointing out it is not impossible for him to work in Spain, as you seemed to suggest in your post.

It annoyed me that Celeste did not put him straight when he accused her of telling Bethany what he had done when it was in fact the other way round

Me too.

So clever, so gripping, and gave us a proper conclusion, rather than the usual series endings where they are hoping for a second series.

Overall I liked it. Feel a bit cheated about where the time-jump came though: Edith collapses in front of armed guards at the Erstwhile- hey presto, time jump!

It annoyed me when they herded all the Erstwhile prisoners into vans, even though most of them had monkey flu. Maybe the sequel will be about the subsequent pandemic.

Hardly ranting moo I was annoyed at what I perceived to be a plot hole and whilst pre EU people may have been teaching English in Europe and yes, whilst many are still employed to do tefl in S.Korea and similar, I personally don't believe that thirteen years from now English citizens are going to be teaching English in Spain.

Genius scheduling of the conservative leadership debate on before this. We were chuckling at the references.

gutrotweins - sequel? Really?

Absolutely loved it. Well observed and Black Mirror ish.