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

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

I don’t feel we deserve Russell T Davies. We don’t deserve his talent, his generosity, his glee, his unabashed joy in everything. And we don’t deserve his ceaseless willingness to pour them all out before us in endlessly glorious TV dramas, from his singlehanded resurrection of Doctor Who to Queer as Folk, last year’s magnificent A Very English Scandal – and now, Years and Years.

The new six-part drama on BBC One 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 (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.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2WD9KCt