Should you watch Years and Years?
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Years and Years
Series · 2019
As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives are explored as we find out if this ordinary family could change the world.
The sides of Years and Years
- The Lyons family of Manchester
- Fifteen years of a near future
- A populist politician on the rise
Years and Years is good for you if…
- you like a family that fights and holds together through everything.
- you want to watch politics change ordinary lives year after year.
- you like Russell T Davies' fast, funny, angry writing.
Years and Years is bad for you if…
- you can't take a family losing people to the crises of the world.
- you lose track with four siblings, their partners and their children.
About: the future · family · politics · refugees
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