Years & Years

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

I liked last nights episode.

However, how much are housing officers paid in the future if they can afford an expensive car and £120 on petrol!

I do like the love hate relationship between Grandma and Celeste.

I couldn't believe how stupid he was being, telling his ex about Viktor working in a petrol station. As soon as he said it, it was glaringly obvious what was going to happen. I'm enjoying it though - not quite as intense as last week's but still scarily prescient.

Does anyone know who does the music? I meant to look in the credits last night but a fire engine turned up outside our house and I got distracted.

I'm finding it compulsive viewing. Its very of its time. DH can't watch. he said he finds it too close to reality and it makes him feel very stressed and worried for the future.

I like it, it's original and entertaining. I don't get how it makes people scared or terrified! There are plenty of funny moments. Has anyone watching it read The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver? I reckon RTD has read it, this is almost like a UK adaptation. Brilliant book

You don't get it davros? Wish I was you.

Not really, it's brilliantly written fiction. Scared? Terrified? I was a teenager in the 70s and I reckon we're a hardier lot

I wondered why the limit on your safe money in the bank is still £85k when clearly inflation has taken hold and prices are so high? Surely that would have risen too?

Also who are the grandchildren's parents? I wondered in the first episode if Viv (Emma Thompson) was their mum but clearly not..maybe the parents will be revealed next week? The grandma did say something about "your mum should be here" this week...

It’s chilling, some great actors, Emma Thompson presenting us with something that isn’t unrealistic. Current politics is at utter desperation level, someone like that would shake it up- anyone who seems to cut through the bs and offer change. I guess like DT has done in the US. Forgive me as I haven’t watched all both episodes yet. Somehow I never get to sit down until 9.30 plus as others have said, it’s close to the bone.

@bestbefore Their mum is dead. Their dad is still around but it's implied that he's done something that's made them disown him. I'm sure all will be revealed sooner or later.

I don't get how it makes people scared or terrified!

Because it isn't really fiction is it. And I don't want to live in that world.

Cloudtree, indeed. Thompson as Farage/Katie Hopkins is excellent. I guess if someone can't see it, it would help explain their real life inexplicable popularity.

The 'Blink' scene last night was amazing!

I liked the girl with the filter.
I think it is certainly the way things could go some teens hiding their feelings like that.

spiderlight Murray Gold does the music (Thanks to enid upthread)
He did the scores for Cucumber and Dr Who too.
Here's Doomsday from

This is similar in style. He's a very very good composer.

Loved it but at the same time made me a bit worried. The comparison with a boiling frog is spot on.

There's a compelling documentary by John Pilger about . Additionally, the statistical imbalance between men and women in China and India may lead to an unstable society.

Oh wait, is this the Preppers Board or Telly Addicts?

Love the reference to "Blink"

I've watched both episodes off the back of this thread and love it so far!
Love how they get the current stories into it-the thing about the corrective surgery in the womb for a baby with Spina Bifida was only on the news the other day-it makes it feel very realistic. I heard Russel Davies interviewed about it and he said they have scheduled to do quick writes for current news to be inserted as it airs.

I find it a very uncomfortable viewing.

I love the way that they commented in the first episode that Viv got loads of airtime even though she wasn’t an MP.

I agree that I wasn’t that scared but like others I was a child of the 70s. Getting the Protect and Survive leaflet through the door, that was proper scary.

Found it slightly unbelievable when the brother was telling them how much money he lost the sisters were so unsympathetic and telling him it's all his fault, can't imagine anyone being so tone deaf in that situation

I’m guessing when you are a disabled single parent living in a flat then it would be hard to have sympathy with someone who just sold their massive house for several million.

I loves looking for the subtle references.

Parents reaction to girl wanting to be trans data. Same reaction to generation not accepting their child is gay. Then more recently not accepting transsexual.

The girl in the wheel chair. Disability now not a barrier.

She made a move on the man for a date and not seen as unusual.

The man she hit on his wife upped and left him and their children and had no contact with her kids.

*loves

*loved

Didn't like this episode as much. Presumably, from looking at Lincoln, it's about 2026. Why are phones essentially the same, barring the ridiculous finger implants. Why are there ridiculous finger implants? That's just stupid the implants would be in your head to pick up your voice and transmit to your ear. No-one would want to go around with their hands to their faces like an idiot. And they'd be of extremely limited uptake as phonecalls are a tiny, tiny function of modern phones. That was just silly in the extreme.

And petrol. Why are people filling their cars up with £120 worth of petrol as a casual top up? Electric cars will be far, far more prevalent. Why are the various families all still using the same Alexas Signors? Those would be bordering on obsolete by then and the Celeste/Steven branch of the family would certainly have moved on. Lastly house prices, what sort of shitty, shitty part of London are Celeste and Steven living in if their very big, very beautiful period house sells for £2.6million and it impresses people? There has been no mention of a house price crash in the intervening 7 years or so, so a house like that would believably sell for a hell of a lot more, especially when a degree of hyper inflation is implied.

Also, chocolate is so scarce it's un-buyable and that's just a throwaway line!!!!!!!! Like fuck, it's all anyone would ever talk about, ever.

And lastly, apart from Steve and Gran the whole family are wankers but Steve and Celeste's eldest daughter is a strikingly beautiful young woman, even if her character is nuts.

I thought it was superb but I’m not sure I really want to watch any more. Very disturbing. In fact, I can’t remember when a piece of tv fiction last stayed with me for days after I watched it.