Years and Years — Series 1— Episode 1.5 — A Review

13th July, 2019.

Isn’t it always the way … ?



That — if you are out of work? — you have a lot of time to fill.

You’ve possibly already worked that out, though.

You’ve possibly also worked out that I’m in something of an emotional state.

Waiting for hospital results will do that to a body.

On the up side … ?



I’m expecting to hear from a potential employer: about a job.

Being caught on the horns of two very different phone calls?

Well … 



Who wouldn’t be a wreck … ?



~≈§≈~

Saying that … ?

Saying that, I am trying to keep occupied.



This blog keeps me occupied: as do video games.

I have to admit, I’ve gotten quite far, in Sonic the Hedgehog 2!

Those help … 

As do TV shows.

Yep.



In between the frantic stop in the social whirl?

I’ve seen another episode of Year and Years.

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Episode 5 — Episode 1.5 — opens in 2028/29: seeing Jonjo proposing to Rosie (Ruth Madeley): with her happily agreeing.

Only for the world to go mad: as the UK sees eighty days of straight rain bring flooding to the UK … 

And two dirty nuclear bombs hit the UK.

Meanwhile?   Viv Rook (Emma Thompson) is now Prime Minister.   A Prime Minister who’s being heavily investigated by Edith (Jessica Hynes): an Edith who is aided and abetted by her niece, Bethany (Lydia West).

Bethany … ?   Has taken one step closer to her ambition of becoming transhumance: having a chip into her body that lets her directly access both the ’Net … and her father’s actions online.

Stephen (Rory Kinnear) has blamed Viktor (Maxim Baldry) for Daniel’s death … and, having found out Vivian Rook’s government has secretly set up concentration camps?



Has sent Viktor to one … 

Do you get the feeling there’s trouble coming  …

?

Edith’s seriously ill, after all … 

~≈§≈~

Now … 

I have to admit, Russell T Davies does have a thing with concentration camps: after all, they do turn up in Torchwood Miracle Day … 



Given he also likes killing of major characters?

Given he’s Ianto, Tosh and Owen in Torchwood, and Daniel in Years and Years?

Well … 


Russell T. Davies isn’t exactly George R. R. Martin, but I suspect that — if the two met — the conversation would turn gruesome, quickly.



Which is possibly beside the point.

What is very much to the point?

Is that this episode finally brings together the Viv Rook character with the Lyons family: and shows us exactly what the villainous PM’s is up to …

And that concentration camps?



Were a British idea …