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- 2019
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2019
- TV-MA
- HBO
Summary Spanning 15 years, Vivienne Rook (Emma Thompson) rises from vocal celebrity to controversial MP. The effect of her policies to British society are reflected in an ordinary Manchester family that includes Daniel (Russell Tovey), Stephen (Rory Kinnear) and his wife Celeste (T’Nia Miller), sisters Rosie (Ruth Madeley) and Edith (Jessica Hyn...
- 2019
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2019
- TV-MA
- HBO
Years and Years
Season 1 Premiere: May 14, 2019
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7.8
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Summary Spanning 15 years, Vivienne Rook (Emma Thompson) rises from vocal celebrity to controversial MP. The effect of her policies to British society are reflected in an ordinary Manchester family that includes Daniel (Russell Tovey), Stephen (Rory Kinnear) and his wife Celeste (T’Nia Miller), sisters Rosie (Ruth Madeley) and Edith (Jessica Hyn...
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
78
83% Positive
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13% Mixed
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4% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
78
83% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
13% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
[Russell T Davies] aerates the heaviest, most fraught issues (from the insidious nature of tech, to income inequality, to the rapidity with which events can become both ancient history and rapidly repeated) with wit and optimism, so that they are no longer a burden, to us or the narrative, but grist to the mental and dramatic mill.
On top of the nuanced work from Davies and Jones, the six-part series boasts outstanding performances. Looking through the opposite end of the telescope at present (and controversial) history is often a recipe for disaster, but Years and Years is magnificently agile in the creativity it uses to make it all cohere.
What Davies has done, essentially, is combine a family soap opera with elements of "Black Mirror."
The anxious thrill of watching Years and Years comes not only from seeing the future unfurl in front of you, but also from watching how it ripples through the lives of this very modern, delightfully fractious family. ... Thompson is brilliantly menacing as Rook, communicating her absolute self-certainty, along with just enough ambiguity to make you wonder if power is everything she’s after.
What makes this series effective is that not-too-distant horizon. It doesn't play out 50 years from now, but next year, then a few years after that, and then a few beyond that. Viewers can see the roadmap, and by always keeping them within the realm of the plausible, the ambient anger and confusion feels plausible, or familiar. ... A compelling — and timely — new series.
Propulsive in its storytelling (thank goodness this is only a six-episode series, or hoo boy could it have gone off the rails), filled with terrifying montages of horrific prospective history (Mike Pence is president! All the butterflies are dead!), and featuring a super weird and largely unsuccessful blend of teens’ obsession with technology, “Years and Years” offers plenty of stimulus to keep you moving through it, but through four episodes, it’s too obsessed with its premise to find the best means of delivering its message.
[Years and Years] is too close to reality to be funny, or blackly funny, or even absurdly funny. It is clever, in the worst sense of the word, and offers a cast of characters who are less fleshed-out humans than mouthpieces for all that cleverness and the unstartling conceit of creator/writer Russell T Davies.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 58 User Ratings
7.8
84% Positive
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5% Mixed
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10% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 58 User Ratings
7.8
84% Positive
49 Ratings
49 Ratings
5% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
10% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Red Production Company
- Home Box Office (HBO)
Initial Release Date: May 14, 2019
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Online Film & Television Association
• 3 Nominations
Critics Choice Awards
• 3 Nominations
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
• 2 Nominations
