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(1 min) Trailer. 'Years & Years' premieres June 24 on HBO. Created by Russell T. Davies and starring Emma Thompson, Anne Reid and Rory Kinnear, Years & Years is an epic saga that takes an ordinary family and catapults them through the next 15 years (2019-2034). As society changes, faster than ever, the Lyons will experience everything we hope for in the future, and everything we fear. Theyll fall in and out of love, and grow old, fall apart and come back together, while constantly looking forward. #HBO #YearsAndYears
- Variety TV Review, June 22, 2019, https://variety.com/2019/tv/reviews/years-and-years-review-emma-thompson-hbo-1203243714/ Give HBOs latest drama 6 hours of your time, and itll tell you the story of the 21st century. Thats the promise made by Years and Years, which airs on the cabler starting June 24 after a run on BBC One in the UK. The first episode begins in May 2019, and subsequent installments push deep into the 2020s, far enough to reveal that our future history looks less like an arc towards progress than a whirlpool of entropy.
And though Emma Thompson steals scenes as an ambitious nationalist politician whose brashness and ease with the mechanisms of celebrity could generate comparisons to both Brit Boris Johnson or to at least one familiar American figure, its not her story. To its credit, Years and Years among the most emotionally involving, and best, series to air so far this year keeps its aperture narrow even as the world keeps forcing its way in. This is, above all, the story of a family, one whose ordinariness makes them a powerful vehicle for telling the future.
- Highly Recommended: This BBC/HBO Mini-Series About a Dystopian Near Future (The next 15 Yrs.), Daily Kos Review, June 22, 2019. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/22/1866618/-Highly-Recommended-This-BBC-HBO-Mini-Series-About-a-Dystopian-Near-Future?utm_campaign=recent
sandensea
(21,624 posts)The minute people decide it's ok to vote in fast-talkers who call people taking the bus a "failure," it's downhill from there.
In the U.S. of course it started with Reagan. And here we are.
Excellent trailer. Looking forward to seeing more of this - all the more so with Emma Thompson starring.
appalachiablue
(41,127 posts)our 'own blond,' Warren to try to straighten out the mess. Lol. It looks very interesting, scary 2020s and a 'Marine Le Pen' type? Fasten you seatbelts folks...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Le_Pen
Marine Le Pen, far right French politician.
2naSalit
(86,536 posts)But don't forget about Chile in '72, so it started prior to that. I suspect the founding of this current cabal was right after WWII as evidenced by Eisenhower's parting speech warning us of the military industrial complex. t was already so much more than that.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,848 posts)I want to watch that.
Don't have HBO, so hopefully it will show up somewhere that I can see it.
Johnny2X2X
(19,038 posts)Had to stop watching. Way too realistic.
appalachiablue
(41,127 posts)so I only saw the trailers for this.
Johnny2X2X
(19,038 posts)Its really incredible. So very hard to watch though. The most disturbing dystopian view of the future ever, because it seems like its actually happening now. They took nearly every horror we are seeing today in the world and took it to its logical destination 4-8 years in the future. Its all there, so disturbing. Its pure madness and its our future if we dont stop it.
Johnny2X2X
(19,038 posts)My god. Its absolutely insane... I cant even begin to describe how this show makes me feel. Utterly hopeless. This is a show without hope so far.
Just devastating! There is so much evil shown in this show Im not sure I can take it.
hlthe2b
(102,225 posts)may well have made me reconsider watching. Too real, indeed.