Years and Years (HBO)

Anybody watching this?

 

Piling up on the DVR... I'll get to it after we finish watching Dark.

 

2 eps in, so good. Sort of a Black Mirror Lite so far.

The Viv Rook thing is maddeningly realistic.

I don't have a cellphone and the whole omnipresent interconnected thing is pretty wild. Definitely not getting one of those things now.

 

First two eps are extremely depressing.

 

Just to warn you.....
It gets WORSE!
They've written this family just so:
You really care for them before their whole world collapses ....

 

Sounds like my kind of show.

 

PLUS, it's got Daisy from "Spaced"!!!

 

No idea who that is, bud.

 

"Spaced" was the wacky BBC comedy that introduced the world to Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, & Edgar Wright!
Daisy was the female lead of the show.

 

Okay, I know who Pegg, Frost, & Wright are.

 

If you like them.........

give it a try.... There's only, like 8 episodes.....

 

She's an adult, now.

 

Great programme, but incredibly depressing. It really hammers home the fact that we as a species are teetering on the edge of sociopolitcal ruin. I hope it wakes a lot of people up.

 

It's like Dynasty but there's no one in the family to root for, so you don't mind seeing their world collapse around them. Except it's our world, too.

 

I watched the first episode last night--very gripping. So far not as grim as Chernobyl, but it's not exactly upbeat! I, too, got a bit of a Black Mirror vibe from it.

 

Writing is so good, so many great little ideas which seem so possible

the Group Chat Link thing creeps me out. Are families really that close? Man, mine weren't. What a pain being so interconnected at all times. FFS, I have to turn the music down again for this? Jesus, it's like a telephone that just won't shut up.

It's so accurate how the little kids are just silent numbed zombies beholden to their phones. They never physically "play" and have nothing in the way of a boisterous imagination or playful curiosity like the kids from my horse and cart childhood had.

Sadly though, being the bastard I am, I did quite enjoy the banking collapse in Ep 2.​

 

Started watching this thanks to this thread. It's scary good. The writers hit this one right on the head.

 

Good writing. I enjoyed the first 3 episodes.l and will keep watching.

 

I think all the family members have their strengths and weaknesses -just like real people, fancy that. You wont find heroes and villains on this show which helps make it more enjoyable for me. Unlike HBO's "Succession", which has a cast of odious, spoiled and broadly-drawn unlikeable characters, this show delivers people I can actually relate to.

 

Actually, there's only six episodes. That's good - as much as I like this show, the constant doom and gloom is really starting to wear me down...

 

Oh, no...
I was talking about "Spaced"....
but, yeah...as far as this show goes....
It'll all end in tears....

 

Well.....
THAT went somewhere.....
Here's hoping for a good 'wrap-up' next week!

 

I want to see at least one of these characters have a happy ever after.

 

Amazing writing...best show on at moment IMO.

 

Well...that's over.....
surprisingly up-beat ending...