Imagining A Dismal Future, 'Years And Years' Says Plenty About The Present
NPRImagining A Dismal Future, 'Years And Years' Says Plenty About The Present Enlarge this image toggle caption HBO HBO Things are looking bright for pessimists these days — the world has caught up with their sense of gloom. Banks begin to wobble, political parties dither, and Britain watches the rise of Vivienne Rook — played by a terrific Emma Thompson — a plain-speaking businesswoman turned populist politician who owns her own TV network. Sponsor Message The whooshing cultural changes — and the family's plucky adjustments to them — make Years and Years addictive, doubly so as the show boasts one of those crack British casts so well trained in realism. Steeped in liberal paranoia, Years and Years skillfully captures how the world now feels to folks like Davies who voted against Brexit, fear Donald Trump, and dread that the tolerant, democratic, globalized social order of the late 20th century is collapsing around them.
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