The British mini-series “Years and Years, 2019”, shot in such a genre of fantastic drama that is not very familiar to me, is rather even a dystopia about the near future, about what awaits Britain, the background is also echoes from other countries, shown through the history of one family. Everything begins in our days and ends somewhere
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The British mini-series “Years and Years, 2019”, shot in such a genre of fantastic drama that is not very familiar to me, is rather even a dystopia about the near future, about what awaits Britain, the background is also echoes from other countries, shown through the history of one family. Everything begins in our days and ends somewhere in the early 30s of our century. The family consists of four already adult children, grandchildren and grandmother. At first, they seem to live quite well, but gradually the well-being of both the family and the whole country begins to fall apart. Refugees come to Britain in an endless stream, including from Ukraine, 97% of which voted for Russia, and the rest are forced to flee, because they are persecuted, in particular, for homosexuality, with new communists coming to power there. One of the brothers is just dealing with refugees, the second works as a financial analyst, one of the sisters travels around the world with various protests and is engaged in charity, the second is disabled from birth, a wheelchair. The family is quite motley in composition - one brother is homosexual and even enters into same-sex marriage, then it turns out that one of the sisters is lesbian. The other brother is married to a black man. We see how digital technologies develop, but the problems of people practically do not change, their well-being collapses, someone dies, political passions rage around, and those who come to power use the same methods that were once used by their distant predecessors during the Boer War. Eventually, there is an explosion. As my grandmother said, “Wait for the next one.” Getting rid of one monster means the next one wakes up in his cave. I want to say that despite some irregularities in the plot, I liked the series.
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