| HBO | Season Premiere Date: June 24, 2019 |
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The Guardian
Dec 4, 2019
[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.
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Jun 24, 2019
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.
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Jul 30, 2019
“Years and Years” is one of the best shows of 2019 so far — worth going back and experiencing it in your own way. While remaining a deeply absorbing family story, as good or better than any season of “This Is Us,” “Years and Years” is depressing on top of depressing. ... My praise for the show is not unqualified, however, as Davies (whose previous work includes the British version of “Queer as Folk” and a successful revamp of “Doctor Who”) stumbled greatly with Monday’s series finale.
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Jun 24, 2019
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.
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Jun 28, 2019
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.
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Jun 24, 2019
At its best, which is often, this vision of tomorrow from Russell T. Davies—creator of the original Queer as Folk, and the showrunner who revitalized Doctor Who back in 2005—plays like a bracing “what if” scenario told from ground level. And if its balance of realism and out-there fantasy eventually falters, it remains an unsettling speculative saga of tomorrow, and the vigilance required to prevent the destruction of everything we hold dear.
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Jun 21, 2019
[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.
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Jul 28, 2019
Quite emotional And interesting story about the development of European social politics. Would love to see a second season
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Jul 24, 2019
a brilliant look into the rising political climate and technology, anyone who rates this poorly is more than likely a fan of Trump and the rise of the non-factual politics the reality of the world we are creating
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Jul 16, 2019
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Jul 29, 2019
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Jun 30, 2019
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Jul 10, 2019
Trite. Lowbrow. Self-satisfied. Pontificating. Flabby. Politically Correct.
In short, the exact opposite of British wit, and its acerbic, smart, self-deprecating humour.
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In short, the exact opposite of British wit, and its acerbic, smart, self-deprecating humour.
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