Years and years synopsis

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The focus of the six-part series is the Manchester-based Lyons family: Daniel is getting married to Ralph, Stephen and Celeste worry about their kids, Rosie is chasing a new guy, and Edith has not been home for years. Presiding over them all is Gran, the imperious Muriel. All their lives converge on one crucial night in , and the story accelerates into the future, following the lives and loves of the Lyons over the next 15 years. In June , the BBC announced that Russell T Davies would write Years and Years which was described as "an epic drama following a family over 15 years of unstable political, economical and technological advances". It was also announced that the series would be directed by Simon Cellan Jones. The series began filming in Manchester in October

Years and years synopsis

The new six-part drama on BBC One follows the fortunes of three generations of one Manchester family, the Lyons, from through to The intertwined personal lives of close-knit siblings Stephen financial adviser and loving family man, played by Rory Kinnear ; Daniel Russell Tovey , a housing officer who realises his husband Ralph is not the man he should have married; Rosie a fun-loving single mother, with none of the stereotyping that implies — she has spina bifida — played by Ruth Madeley ; and political activist Edith played by Jessica Hynes. Together with various offspring and their grandma Muriel Anne Reid , it is all played out against a bleak backdrop that sketches out our realistically imagined future. It comprises the aftermath of Brexit, a second term of Trump and the rise of China. And it sees the rise of a far-right populist party led by Vivienne Rook Emma Thompson, having a whale of a time as a Farage-meets-Katie-Hopkins figure rendered more palatable by her no-nonsense, non-southern-elitist approach to life. Those were the days. As ever, Davies seems to capture the zeitgeist effortlessly — fear and uncertainty hover over all the characters and you can sense their inner gimbals ceaselessly recalibrating, like ours, in search of a stability that never comes. But the day-to-day minutiae of life go on as they must — and he 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. She wants her consciousness to be uploaded into the cloud, to discard her body and live for ever, digitally. Having sex with anything called Keith becomes no less funny in the future than it is now. They consummate their relationship on the night that sirens blare out all over Britain, as the US fires a nuclear missile at a disputed Chinese territory and the British prime minister announces that the country is on a war footing. What a writer, what a craftsman, what a showman, all rolled into one. The episode passes in the blink of an eye

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Its subject matter made the series a difficult sell to broadcasters. BBC One and ITV passed on the series, and Channel 4 took it on only after their commissioning editor of drama, Lee Mason, fought for it and the series was shortened from a planned eight episodes to five. Principal photography commenced on 7 October All episodes were released to Channel 4's online streaming service All 4 now simply known as Channel 4 , where it was viewed in its entirety more than 6. The first episode also became Channel 4's biggest drama launch. The show was also credited for creating an upsurge in HIV testing in the weeks after its release.

The new six-part drama on BBC One follows the fortunes of three generations of one Manchester family, the Lyons, from through to The intertwined personal lives of close-knit siblings Stephen financial adviser and loving family man, played by Rory Kinnear ; Daniel Russell Tovey , a housing officer who realises his husband Ralph is not the man he should have married; Rosie a fun-loving single mother, with none of the stereotyping that implies — she has spina bifida — played by Ruth Madeley ; and political activist Edith played by Jessica Hynes. Together with various offspring and their grandma Muriel Anne Reid , it is all played out against a bleak backdrop that sketches out our realistically imagined future. It comprises the aftermath of Brexit, a second term of Trump and the rise of China. And it sees the rise of a far-right populist party led by Vivienne Rook Emma Thompson, having a whale of a time as a Farage-meets-Katie-Hopkins figure rendered more palatable by her no-nonsense, non-southern-elitist approach to life. Those were the days. As ever, Davies seems to capture the zeitgeist effortlessly — fear and uncertainty hover over all the characters and you can sense their inner gimbals ceaselessly recalibrating, like ours, in search of a stability that never comes.

Years and years synopsis

As Britain slowly turns into a dictatorship throughout the years, the lives of a typical busy family from Manchester converge on one crucial night in Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Episode guide. Play trailer

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Something went wrong. Presiding over them all is Gran, the imperious Muriel. Los Angeles Times. A joyful tribute to lives that burned bright in s London Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Carr added that Hawes' performance in episode five quashed any confusion as she "turned in an acting tour de force as a mother whose grief and denial turns her vicious". Pre-transmission data is included for all episodes other than episode 1 as the full box-set of the series was released on All 4 after the transmission of episode 1 on Channel 4. But the events are all filtered through the prism of the fictional Lyons family: four siblings, their partners, their children, and their grandmother. The proceeds are deposited in a single bank account on the night of the sale. Retrieved 13 September Details Edit.

Years and Years is a dystopian science fiction drama [2] television miniseries [3] [4] written by Russell T Davies. Taking place between and , [5] the six-part series follows the lives of the Lyons family, who witness increasingly tumultuous global affairs and the rise to power of Vivienne Rook, an outspoken British celebrity businesswoman turned populist politician whose controversial opinions divide the nation. It received praise for its writing, characterisation, [1] and exploration of modern political anxieties in a dystopian future.

I haven't been this disturbed by a show since, well, ever. Retrieved 10 July For more newsletters, check out our newsletters page. Ukraine has now criminalised homosexuality, so Viktor decides to illegally enter Spain and claim asylum. Rory Kinnear Stephen Lyons. This section's plot summaries may be too long or excessively detailed. The Telegraph. Retrieved 8 February Daniel shatters his marriage to another man by running away to have sex with Viktor when the US nukes China and he becomes convinced the world might really be ending. Russell T Davies. Retrieved 13 February Seoul International Drama Awards.