Years and Years

Amazing cast, incredibly well written, disturbingly plausible storyline. Episode 4 broke my heart. I can honestly say that I may have lost a little sleep thinking about what the future may have in store for mankind after watching this!

...broken hearted having just watched episode four of this ground breaking show and broken is vey much the state of the world portrayed in 'Years and Years'...which isn't as far fetched as it should be. The show is set in the near future and while things look bleak, they're presented in an everyday way through the eyes of one family. Rather than take a 'shock horror' approach to events as they chillingly unfold, the family simply live it day to day, as we would, with warmth and humour. This normalises the horrors of this future world and that packs a far greater emotional punch, because there is a real beating heart at the centre of everything. I can honestly say that I've never seen anything quite like this on television before. Each episode kinda pulls you in for a hug, then rips your heart out. 'Years and Years' is clever, nuanced and absolutely not-to-be-missed. Even in the midst of what seems like despair it still manages to be endlessly entertaining and never dry or dull. I dare you not to be challenged by this, in the best possible way. More of this kind of story telling/social commentary please.

This show makes you look around and think about the world as we know it and what it is becoming. Somehow it combines parts of our history and shows what is likely to happen if we don't think about whats going on and learn from our past.

Can't recommend it enough... Just to paint the picture, this is the first time I'm writing a review on a show. Thats how much it spoke to me.

China blocked the show after the second episode because it was suspected of attacking Chinese leaders. In fact, I don't think he will really become a life leader. Because that is really against the education we receive. And historical trends. In 2022, we will see what happens. I hope that this world will develop in a good direction. I hope that the world will still be full of justice and fairness. I hope that the world will be a whole, not more and more fragmented. Recently, the US trade war behavior has made me very disappointed with the United States because they do not seem to want to promote free trade. In China, I feel more and more control, and the whole society is tightening. Because of the increasingly tense situation between China and the United States. In fact, the China-US conflict at the beginning of the film is very similar to reality. I can hardly distinguish between reality and illusion. This makes me very scared and deeply feels that politics is really about everyone's life. The world seems to be moving in a bad direction. I hope that we can all be tolerant, have more understanding and reason, and not be incited and misled. I hope that all this will not happen as the drama.

The opening episode of this show captured everything we are all feeling in this post-2014 world. It didn't pull a single punch, it hit every note in a way that made you not just question the world, but yourself.

It did suffer one thing, and that is that it didn't hide its own political stance. But, in a world where insanity seems to prevail, we need sensible people like Russell T Davies showing us where the line used to be, and hopefully help us get back to it.