Years & Years

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

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.
Really? So people can't feel sympathy for anyone else any more they're richer then me and had a nicer house so I couldn't care less that they just lost their life savings good enough for them . It's not even a stranger we're talking about but her own brother who she appears quite close to. Think that's what's wrong with the world have to bring everything back to ourselves. I have siblings a lot lot better off then me but I wouldn't for a minute want to see them lose it all or rub their face in it if they did.

I was not terrified of the potential for a nuclear war. When your time is up, that is it.
But seeing our own world devoid of empathy and tolerance was just too close to home.
Emma Thompson is brilliant.

The Blink thing has been bugging me a bit. I keep on imagining her sister's mumsnet thread. Livid that DD6 has been watching porn on her phone!!! Every single response would be to berate the fucking moron for giving her 6yo a phone and leaving her on it unsupervised. Not one person would sympathise with the mother but they'd all worry about the poor child being raised by a dribbling idiot. Viv's insistence that every 6 year old in the world was being exposed to porn would be met with, ^not my 6 year old because I'm not too stupid to live and don't allow my 6 year old unsupervised access to every media source in the world. That stunt would gain Viv very, very, very little traction. Especially when we'd all be aware that power assuming busybodies would use it to police other people's (our own) parenting. I'm not sure Davies has ever met a modern parent of a 6 year old if he thinks that argument would sway any of us.

At this point I'm assuming it was just a lazily shoe-horned in Chekov's Blink,. Leading up to older daughter getting a brain implant and some Viv empowered wanker turning off all electrical devices in the area she is in, causing irreparable brain damage.

Agree with you alittleprivacy about some of the predicted future being unrealistic - I was totally WTF? at the petrol station, expecting Viktor to be working somewhere like a "speedcharge station", offering car washes while the electric cars were charged up in a few minutes.

I expected to see everyone wearing the equivalent of Google Glasses, so they could e.g. be at the debate in the hall while simultaneously feeding it onto their social media, and seeing a heads-up display coming from the reactions on there too. People holding up their phones to record it like they did in 2019 - no way!!! Any chips would be implanted either next to the eyes, or directly into the eyes.

I love dramas set in the future, I'm more interested in how the writer thinks that we'll live our lives then, rather than the actual storyline of the drama!

It is only about 6-7 years in the future at the moment. The technological change wouldn't be that significant.

Does anyone know how I can listen to the choral piece that accompanies the news montages? I've tried looking up Murray Gold on Spotify and I can't see it.

Of course it would. Technological change is rapid. We have moved on significantly in the last 6-7 years, especially people who can afford it. Raspberry Pi was only released in 2012!!!!. And everyone else has enormous potential for all sorts of previously out of reach technological projects. Couple this with how companies like Aliexpress and Wish have revolutionised international shopping and everyone now has enormous potential for all sorts of previously out of reach technological projects. Scratch 2.0 launched in 2013!! Meaning we now live in a world where very small children can put their own computers together and design their own games and animations, which is mind boggling for me and yet the only way kids like my 6yo DS have ever experienced computer technology.

Simple homemade entertainment has become one of the most lucrative forms of the entertainment industry due to advances in broadband finally making streaming suitable for mass consumption rather than relatively niche. And can be used by everyone in a family at the same time. Smart watches have gone from scoffed at as pointless to having nearly everyone wearing a watch again for the first time in 15 years, if only so we can occasionally look at a graph to tell us how many steps we average. Whatsapp no longer costs a quid a year so now we're all on it. Personal email is going the way of cheque books. Everyone is going really meh about Facebook. World leaders communicate with the world on Twitter. Video chat is possible at the supermarket, beach, while on public transport. In An Aeroplane.

Look at this graph of electric car use in the UK for the last 7 full years and tell me the car landscape in 2026 will look the same as it does now.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_the_United_Kingdom#/media/File:PEV_Registrations_UK_2011_2014.png At the very, very least biofuel would be replacing petrol if petrol prices are nearly increasing to those crazy levels. Think about the increasing levels of autonomous driving cars that is becoming standard in our present. Adaptive cruise control, self parking, steering and lane assist. Higher end new cars currently feature even more driver 'assistance' like Stop&Go function, which independently adjusts the distance to the car in front of you, Collision and Pedestrian Warning with City Brake Activation, which prevents collisions via automatic braking. Traffic Jam Assistant that can brake automatically, accelerate and even take over steering. By 2026 people in Steve and Celeste's original income bracket are going to be driving cars with much greater degrees of autonomous drive functions and they aren't going to be spending £120 quid on their weekly petrol.

It's not a documentary. Artistic licence not premonitory science.

I think a little privacy you’re taking this just a little too seriously. It’s a drama and a very good story. Not a Scientific documentary.
It’s called light entertainment for a very good reason.
I don’t find this scary, as a child born in the 60s. I remember being told what to do in the event of a nuclear attack at school. I do find it a rollicking good story, though a little less dramatic this week. It just errs on the side of plausibility which makes for brilliant viewing.

The tech advancement is the one thing I found really believable, think back to 20 years ago when we were all on huge Nokia bricks ,if we were lucky!

Thank you, @RageAgainstTheVendingMachine and enid.

@Limer did you notice how expensive the fuel was though? The government isn't committed enough to climate change for there to electronic charging stations like petrol stations in 6-7 years in my opinion, and I think the programme is acknowledging that. Instead we'll be stupid enough to pay over £120 for a tank of fuel for a small car.

I'm still happily using an ipad Ive had for 7 years. My DS uses my iphone from then too. Technology does move on and they've been showing that quite successfully I think with the emotion screen thing and the implanted tech. But it actually doesn't change that quickly for the majority of people unless they really are early adopters with the cash to do that.

I don't find it scary as in "oh my God they could set off a nuclear weapon" I find it scary in that it really is mirroring life. Extremist views are more and more prevalent and popular and we are rapidly reaching the point of no return on climate change etc.

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Sorry I cannot find the music itself anywhere ONH - it could end up being like the soundtrack to Cucumber which was not released especially if it's the only piece for the show and is only being used for half a minute at a time.

I'm finding it quite chilling actually and a bit close to home but I'm still going to carry on with it as, in a strange way, I'm also quite enjoying it.

Husband can't decide whether he likes it or not.

Love the blink device

I thought it was so interesting the way the conversation went. The man essentially said ‘ you know fuck all about politics, trade, economics’ to which she said ‘I know, but think about the children and them seeing porn’ knowing that it is far more of a vote winner than policies that make sound fiscal sense.

I think it's brilliant

The trick with the porn is not really about whether that would be the thing that would persuade a room of parents to support 4star.

It's more - in a room full of people who wanted to like Viv, who turned up to support her and who were disappointed that she didn't know much compared to other candidates, how does she turn it around? By changing the subject with an easy win and promises that aren't true but sound appealing.

You don't have to give your own 6yo a phone to be concerned about the tech and content children are being exposed to and the ceo's of those companies getting away with it. But the main driver is that that audience wanted to believe in her. She just had to give them something to cheer.

I think Russell has written it stunningly. He may not have kids himself but he shows a much better grasp of family and how these lurches in politics happen than other more dramatic shows and films do.

Also, I have to say 6-7 years ago mumsnet was full of threads about giving kids tablets for their 4th birthdays because there were lots of cheap (not kid specialist) brands around at the time and they are easy entertainment. Tablets and phones without proper filters and supervision are exactly the same in terms of potential access to porn.

I think it's brilliant and very scary because it is where we are at ...

I just wanted to mention how beautiful Viktor is. Very disconcerting when you start fancying people old enough to be your son!

Plopthebarnowl - totally agree about Viktor. He is unbelievably hot! Hopefully he'll pick up a few other prime time roles from this.

I thought he was hot too, and then remembered him from his role in Rome!

Viktor is just incredibly beautiful.