Years and Years (BBC)

gmisk

Anyone else watch the first episode of this?
New show from Russell T Davies.
Lots of potential, interesting to see how it plays out.

Gimme A Pound

I missed some but liked what I saw. Emma Thompson is superb! Speculation based on stuff happening now, mixed with 80s style nuclear fear. Some of it doesn't seem far fetched...

Basq

Isabella Strong Grassland wrote: »

Some of it doesn't seem far fetched...

Exactly.. thought the same.

Great performances, witty writing, exciting premise and a helluva cast.

Very promising!

gmisk

Isabella Strong Grassland wrote: »

I missed some but liked what I saw. Emma Thompson is superb! Speculation based on stuff happening now, mixed with 80s style nuclear fear. Some of it doesn't seem far fetched...

It's a really interesting premise, really wanna see where it goes.
It really doesnt seem far fetched at all to be honest yeah... worryingly.

I enjoyed the first episode- little things like the news mentioning Doris Day died, keeping us in present day, the following snippets about the queen having died and "long live the king" being chanted on tv.
Interesting.

otnomart

I enjoyed the first episode,
Found particularly chilling the child with the Snapchart filter on her head

otnomart

otnomart wrote: »

I enjoyed the first episode,
Found particularly chilling the child with the Snapchart filter on her head

Yes! That was SO creepy!

Really enjoyed the first episode. I love Russell tovey though in anything he’s in

Loved the whole concept of it, was dying to watch the next episode! The Doris day bit was very good! I was like ...wait ...what...she just died today!!! Wtf!!

Gimme A Pound

Aw man, that girl - with the Snapchat filter and the transhumanism ambition... so believable!

Yeah Doris Day wtf - how did they manage that?!

Isabella Strong Grassland

Isabella Strong Grassland wrote: »

Aw man, that girl - with the Snapchat filter and the transhumanism ambition... so believable!

Yeah Doris Day wtf - how did they manage that?!

A very quick edit! Was really such a impact for something so simple wasn’t it!

Sleepy

Caught this on the iPlayer over the weekend, a very strong opening episode and, as many have commented on, extremely believable! Looking forward to tonight's episode.

Just watched the second episode....This is so good. Like really good.
It’s so clever and fast paced.
My heart was in my mouth at the end there, the music and everything!!

I would totally binge watch this now if it were on Netflix

Harry Palmr

Very enjoyable and quite clever thematically as Russell T Davies is basically projecting a future which is replaying our recent past with a few new props to distract us!

brian_t

Moises Shy Maze wrote: »

A very quick edit! Was really such a impact for something so simple wasn’t it!

According to the Radio Times the writer Russell T Davies always planned to have last Tuesdays news stories edited into the programme on the day it was broadcast.

ryaner777

The inclusion of the piece on spina bifida was brilliant and so well timed. So much more effort than just a radio playing in the car like in episode 1.

Loving the show but can't wait for next weeks episode just to see what news story of the week they go with and how they work it into the show.

I think it's a great way to get people back to weekly episode dramas instead of binge watching a box set

iguana

I loved the first episode but was less into the second. Davies doesn't seem to have given the technology aspect of the future all that much thought. It's about 7 years from now, petrol is unremarkably £120 for a casual top-up and car technology which is, in real life, rapidly advancing is the same. The hand phone implants were really stupid and had the feel of the sillier 'sci-fi' aspects of Davies' DWU stuff. I wasn't a fan of it in the DWU but forgave it, especially on the family orientated shows but it has no real place on this. I'm going to keep watching, if nothing else Murray Gold's score has me hooked, but Davies is capable of genuinely magnificent writing on occasion and after the first episode I thought this was one of those occasions. I'm less sure now but even Davies' lesser output can still be very enjoyable.

Lisha

I thought it was a fantastic episode. You could nearly see how things could get so out of control !

Sleepy

Have to admit I'm loving this. Really annoyed with the "on next week's episode" bit though: didn't switch it off in time and got a load of spoilers. :mad:

FunLover18

I enjoyed last night's up until the moment with the bike. I might have bought it if Stephen had been on his own but for everyone to go along with it seemed far-fetched. I'm wondering if they recast the children at any stage, it's very noticeable that they haven't aged three years.

Lisha

Apologies if I’m a bit dim. Can someone tell me why Stephen totaled the bike please?

FunLover18

Lisha wrote: »

Apologies if I’m a bit dim. Can someone tell me why Stephen totaled the bike please?

It was the same delivery company that knocked over their dad.

God the bit with the eye make me gawk!

cml387

It can be also really funny. Loved them all dancing around off their heads to Chumbawumba.

otnomart

Just caught up with episode three.
The operation ship and the self-cooking fake food are scary.

Sparko

Loving this show. Gut punch this week.

FunLover18

Found it weird how Stephen's siblings didn't seem to bothered with his affair, given how angry they were with their father in the previous episode. Still an excellent episode, was not expecting that ending. Dunno how this is going to end, will it be a proper ending or lead into another series. I can't think of anything else like it.

Sparko

Sparko wrote: »

Loving this show. Gut punch this week.

Yes. For me it was up there with ned stark in terms of shock - out of all the family, I wasn't expecting that and how they led up to that shot.

cml387

Deleted User wrote: »

Yes. For me it was up there with ned stark in terms of shock - out of all the family, I wasn't expecting that and how they led up to that shot.

Yes I was expecting

the Roy Kinnear character to get a bad reaction to that drugs test. He got a bad reaction all right, not from the drugs though

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cml387

cml387 wrote: »

Yes I was expecting

the Roy Kinnear character to get a bad reaction to that drugs test. He got a bad reaction all right, not from the drugs though

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Yeah, it looked like thats where the episode was going.

Jesus I’m in bits after that

gmisk

Episode 4 was absolutely fantastic.

genuinely heart breaking death I thought like most other people that Rory Kinnears character would be more at risk.

Excellent TV show, extremely throught provoking.

cml387

Definitely showing my age here, and I'm sure much good work has been done before but..

..I don't think I've ever seen a series where I've been so invested in a same-sex relationship.
It's down to the writing and the actors I'm sure, but last weeks episode was profoundly moving.

Do you think that the family will

Take Viktor to their hearts, the final scene of them banging on the doors of the flat to be let in is ambiguous. I think they will

cjmcork

No one I know is watching this brilliant series, same as Line Duty....had to brow beat my parents to watch S1E1, and they finished S1 to 4 within 5 days.....anyway.....

I love this show but was heartbroken at events in this week's ep.....haven't read any spoilers because I am loving this week to week old school style!

Brilliant show but so sad for them after this week

cml387

Well that got grimmer.

I wondered how the family would react to Viktor, and I got my answer.

otnomart

Wow what an episode.

cml387

I was wondering when I'd see a Dr Who reference, and it came tonight.

The forced billeting of people after a disaster was part of the plot of "Turn Left", in series 4 of the current Dr Who incarnation, written by Davies himself.

cjmcork

Jaysus....that's the end of me going to see the Mindy K film with Emma T in it I think....

I wonder will it come out that the ex husband is the reason Vicktor was deported in.the first place

You can see shades of history with the daughter.....potentially informing on the father.....can't believe it is over next week.....not sure a second series would thrill me, it is very grim, and a bit too probable in today's political environment

Harry Palmr

The future is all seeing! But we knew that. Our children/grandchildren will think it's all normal and good stuff.

cjmcork

cjmcork wrote: »

Jaysus....that's the end of me going to see the Mindy K film with Emma T in it I think....

I wonder will it come out that the ex husband is the reason Vicktor was deported in.the first place

You can see shades of history with the daughter.....potentially informing on the father.....can't believe it is over next week.....not sure a second series would thrill me, it is very grim, and a bit too probable in today's political environment

God i totally forgot the ex husband got him deported in the first place

This is a brilliant show. I’m gripped from start to finish.

fritzelly

This is depressing stuff and I'm hooked -

that smile at the end

Sparko

cml387 wrote: »

I was wondering when I'd see a Dr Who reference, and it came tonight.

The forced billeting of people after a disaster was part of the plot of "Turn Left", in series 4 of the current Dr Who incarnation, written by Davies himself.

I haven't really watched Dr Who, but the erstwhile camps mentioned in tonight's episode kept reminding me of the incineration camps used in one of the Torchwood miniseries, Miracle Day.

Very grim episode tonight, but continues to be a fantastic watch.

Credit Checker Moose

Stephen is an awful <expletive> of a person. :mad:

Harry Palmr

Credit Checker Moose wrote: »

Stephen is an awful <expletive> of a person. :mad:

He is but his daughter is a far greater threat to society.

Tabnabs

Harry Palmr wrote: »

He is but his daughter is a far greater threat to society.

We've seen hints of her becoming a hacker and helping her aunt in partisan activities. She's likely going to become an anti-state cyber hero. Unless of course the people who paid for her implants can pull the plug...

Sleepy

Absolutely loving this show. One thing that is niggling at me a bit though is that for all the diversity of the cast, there isn't a single straight white man who isn't a monster...

otnomart

It will be quite something watching the last episode tonight - straight after the leadership debate

Jesus that was emotional. I’m in bits here

Best series I’ve seen in a long long time

gmisk

That was a fantastic last episode, what a terrific ground breaking series that was. Very emotional ending. It was like Black mirror but with a huge amount of soul and heft, no mean feat.
Right up there with Chernobyl as the best tv of the year for me.

cjmcork

that was heart wrenching........poor Danny still upsets me

Ripe for a second season with the whole 'that's not Viv Rook' hook...........can't understand why more people haven't been raving about this - is Tuesday night a bad night for tv or is there just too much good stuff on that this got lost?

FunLover18

Looking through the reactions I think I must be the only person who didn't love that ending. I enjoyed up until Edith's collapse but the epilogue with Edith in the facility getting her conscience downloaded felt a bit too sci-fi for me. To be honest I feel like they could have done with another episode maybe to wrap it up properly.

cjmcork

FunLover18 wrote: »

Looking through the reactions I think I must be the only person who didn't love that ending. I enjoyed up until Edith's collapse but the epilogue with Edith in the facility getting her conscience downloaded felt a bit too sci-fi for me. To be honest I feel like they could have done with another episode maybe to wrap it up properly.

Kinda agree - it was all tied up in a lovely bow at the end........but all in all, I really enjoyed it, bloody frightening though, cos that sh!t could happen, sadly