Set in a dystopian near-future, 'Years and Years' is dark and damning — but its conclusion doesn't track. Alan Sepinwall on finale spoilers
six hours to sit through. Davies’ vision of the future is unsparingly bleak, including a second term for the Trump administration, a nuclear strike against China, worldwide financial catastrophes, rises in authoritarian governments, and more. All of it seems utterly plausible, because Davies simply recreates the slow-motion nature of tragedies already happening and being shrugged off in the present. Every day brings a new horror, and we grimace and move on because there are so many still coming.
The Lyons clan proves one of the miniseries’ two notable flaws. Davies and his team have assembled a tremendous cast to play them, including Russell Tovey as Daniel, a Manchester housing official who falls in love with Ukranian refugee Viktor ; Rory Kinnear as Stephen, a finance man who loses everything in one of the crashes; and Jessica Hynes as Edith, a political activist who’s an eyewitness to the nuclear detonation. But the characters all feel thin beyond those strong performances.
Bethany does prove crucial, however, to the series’ climax — and its other big flaw. Stephen, overwhelmed with grief over his brother’s death, cruelly has Viktor transferred into one of the concentration camps the Rook administration has set up. Bethany figures it out with her new technological implants, and she and Edith team up not only to liberate Viktor, but to reveal the horror of these places to the entire oblivious country.
Both the conclusion of the main story and that epilogue with Edith feel like a failure of nerve on Davies’ part. In the time since the show began airing in America, we’ve seen news footage and photographs of the camps the Trump administration is running along our southern border. They’re disgusting on a scale that makes the ones infeel almost cozy, and at the same time the news coverage has had zero impact on the camps’ continued existence.
It’s easy to understand where Davies is coming from. These are such dark times that you can’t blame him or anyone else for hoping our better natures can triumph over the selfish amorality of this current political moment. Anddoesn’t end entirely on sunshine and rainbows: Notre Dame is restored, but the Leaning Tower of Pisa collapses, and the final scene leaves it unclear whether Edith’s mind was successfully digitized before her death.
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