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Years and Years Season 1

Years and Years Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.8/10. 6 episodes on BBC One / HBO from 14 May 2019.

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BollyMeter8.8/1089 percent on Rotten Tomatoes from 65 critics and an 8.2 IMDb score reflect near-consensus that Davies fused domestic emotional realism with prescient political dread more effectively than almost any British drama of its decade.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Years and Years premiered on BBC One on 14 May 2019, and aired in the US on HBO the following month. Russell T Davies wrote all six episodes, tracing the Lyons family from 2019 to a destabilised 2034 as each episode jumps two or three years forward. Critics landed at 89 percent on Rotten Tomatoes (65 reviews), with Metacritic awarding 78 out of 100 from 24 critics. The consensus praised Davies for using the dystopia not as spectacle but as pressure applied to recognisable family dynamics: debt, immigration, disability, sexuality. Emma Thompson's populist politician Vivienne Rook drew comparisons to multiple real-world figures without being a caricature of any. Audience scores tracked critical enthusiasm closely, with IMDb sitting at 8.2. The series flew under commercial radar despite its awards recognition, peaking at 4.26 million UK viewers for the premiere.

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  • “Among the most emotionally involving, and best, series to air so far this year.”
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Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about — premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

  1. E1Episode 18.5

    The opening episode plants the Lyons family across Britain in 2019, then begins the time jumps - each small domestic revelation carrying a macro political shock in the background. The tone is sharp, the family dynamics immediately plausible, and the pace of escalation genuinely unnerving.

    The moment: A teenage family member's encounter with emerging technology sets the series' central anxiety about bodies and transformation into motion.

  2. E6Episode 69.0

    The finale arrives at 2034 and pays off both the political arc and the family's accumulated emotional damage. Critics cited it as the point where the show's apparent nihilism gives way to something more defiant. Emma Thompson's final scenes were singled out in multiple reviews as career-best work.

    The moment: The Lyons family's collective response to the crisis they have been living through - the moment the series earns its tonal gamble.