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Years & Years

860 replies

unique1986 · 14/05/2019 12:36

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

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SoupDragon · 21/06/2019 11:16

English society?

RuffleCrow · 21/06/2019 13:48

Much asI love RTD era DW this was far superior in every way. Character development was just sparse enough to leave uncertainty in plot development.

DioneTheDiabolist · 21/06/2019 14:30

I love RTD and I loved this.

GeorgeTheBleeder · 21/06/2019 20:08

Something to ease the withdrawal symptoms - The Invisible will be this Sunday’s Drama on 3. Sounds deliciously and familiarly dystopian!

Isatis · 21/06/2019 20:40

In Edith's imagination, which might have been the truth, we see her running through some kind of tunnel to escape.

But she looked panicked, more as if she was being chased.

darkriver19886 · 21/06/2019 22:04

Am almost at the end of episode 2. Wow so intense. I don't know if I can watch the entire series in one go.

DioneTheDiabolist · 21/06/2019 23:29

Those comments in the Telegraph!Shock

darkriver19886 · 21/06/2019 23:41

The comments are horrific.

stumbledin · 22/06/2019 00:40

There was a Radio 4 drama about the UK falling apart and how one family tries to survive.

Quite crime and plausible (no mad take over just a slow decline of civil society)

Its called First World Problems www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b5stvj

On a half serious note, not that I'm a royalist, but I think when the Queen dies, things will fall apart. She is sort of the figure head of a mythical UK (or maybe English) which is fed by the media, but the reality of our lives means we know it doesn't really exist.

darkriver19886 · 22/06/2019 02:16

Just finished watching it all. Incredible series.
A couple of things struck out. I loved the dynamic of the family. How they couldn't agree on much but came together when they need to.

I loved how in the end Edith and Muriel came together and bonded. Originally it felt like the cliche mother in law/daughter in law relationship.

I felt increasingly anxious as I watched the episodes and the speed at which they raced through things.

I also like how RTD didn't make a huge thing about gender/sexuality and disability. The storyline between Victor and Daniel was believable and compelling and Daniel's death was so upsetting. Luckily I kind of spoiled for it myself.

Vivian Rook looked terrified at the end and desperate. It was obviously she was a puppet being controlled.

I also found the BBC being suspended unsettling.

I never realised about concentration camps. It wasn't taught in my history class when I was at school and I left 15 years ago.

It all felt very close to home for me.

Finally, I liked the ending. Steven Moffat was the one who wrote Silence in the library/forest of the dead which had River Song up loading herself to save the "saved" (big doctor who fan and River song fan hence the username)

My favourite character ultimately is Edith. She did what was right in the end.

darkriver19886 · 22/06/2019 02:17

Not edith but celeste and Muriel.

RuffleCrow · 22/06/2019 08:10

I think RTD will be revelling in hatred from the Torygraph readers. It's generally a sign you've done something right.

smashamasha · 22/06/2019 08:49

I presumed Rook was being persued by the Russians - she was dressed in red running down a red corridor looking scared.

Pretty obvs metaphor

CaptainMyCaptain · 22/06/2019 08:52

It was a metaphor/symbolic of her running scared. I don't think she was actually in the red corridor running in heels.

smashamasha · 22/06/2019 10:25

Yeah I get that @CaptainMyCaptain - hence why I said it was a metaphor.

smashamasha · 22/06/2019 10:26

Red is symbolic of Russia and the corridor as a metaphor of the corridors of power.

Doesn't really matter though - that's the thing with good tele - it's open to interpretation.

CaptainMyCaptain · 22/06/2019 12:41

Typed before I read yours.

darkriver19886 · 22/06/2019 12:57

I liked Yvonne's open ending. Gave the feeling that we have no idea if it was Edith chasing her or the "Russians"

The looking terrified moment I was referring to was when she was arrested and the camera panned on her face. I have to say I am not used to Emma Thompson playing evil characters so that was strange.

SoupDragon · 22/06/2019 13:30

I usually hat programmes with loose ends but this tied up all the important stuff and left some open to speculation. I agree that it's the quality of the writing that makes this work

SoupDragon · 22/06/2019 13:31

Red is also the colour of hell really.

gotmychocolateimgood · 22/06/2019 17:39

Dear God. I've just watched the whole 6 episodes in one sitting. Scary as fuck

gotmychocolateimgood · 22/06/2019 21:52

Daniel's death really shook me too. I stopped breathing for a little while.

GeorgeTheBleeder · 22/06/2019 22:09

I can’t imagine digesting all six episodes at once. Think I really needed a week to absorb the devastation of episode 4.

gotmychocolateimgood · 22/06/2019 22:17

It is haunting me but I couldn't stop watching

PloptheBarnOwl · 23/06/2019 07:37

It airs on HBO in the US tomorrow- interesting article: variety.com/2019/tv/reviews/years-and-years-review-emma-thompson-hbo-1203243714/