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Warning: This article contains spoilers.
TIME flies, but sometimes not in the direction we would wish. That’s very much the premise of Years and Years, Russell T Davies’s dystopian TV drama which is now being screened in the US after ending its six-part run on BBC One.
For those who haven’t seen it — and it’s now available on BBC iPlayer — the drama follows the ups and downs of the Lyons family, with Gran (Anne Reid) presiding over a brood of four grown-up grandchildren, their partners and assorted offspring.
We start in 2019 and chart these people’s lives over the next 15 years, while glimpsing our own futures too.
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