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‘Years and Years’: wake up and face our near future ahead

There are those series with which we fall in love at first sight; other stories so meaningful that make us dream about at night, and there are those ones we watch affixed like we’re running a marathon (especially cause we have nothing to do these times due the pandemic circumstances). But forget all these repetitive impressions and feeling about previous experiences watching series (and some have been so frequent). Years and Years starts in a low-profile way and turns into an impressive, intense, astonishing story that passes through our brains like a rotating machine, leads to personal philosophic reflexions and maybe sometimes will make you dizzy. This HBO’s and BBC’s British coproduction reflects a tense period marked by geopolitics conflicts, economic crisis, deep changes on society brought by digital ultra-high technology, nationalism and xenophobia. No news so far, right? But the fact that it’s spotted by the routine and conflicts of a non-orthodox British family from nowadays ac