Years and Years review – a glorious near-future drama from Russell T Davies

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Trump gets a second term, robots perform sexual favours and humans can upload their minds to the cloud in Davies’ thrilling new show, which follows one family from 2019 to 2034

follows the fortunes of three generations of one Manchester family, the Lyons, from 2019 through to 2034. The intertwined personal lives of close-knit siblings Stephen ; Daniel , a housing officer who realises his husband Ralph is not the man he should have married; Rosie ; and political activist Edith . Together with various offspring and their grandma Muriel , it is all played out against a bleak backdrop that sketches out our imagined future.

 

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It's not 'thrilling' it looks from the trailers to be totally lacking in any reality about the future, clearly the writer hasn't a clue what's happening to the environment nor of the timescale for collapse. Easier to obsess about robots and sex and ignore the scary stuff.

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