Twenty Minutes

I've been searching for new sci-fi TV to watch, recently. I think I've watched all the good sci-fi now, so I need new input. I've been Googling for new stuff, finding a likely candidate, watching the first episode and deciding if I stick with it

I've got a couple of good hits so far this year, along with some garbage

 

At the weekend, I started a show that was the worst garbage I have ever seen, of any genre. It was English and I'm sure it was made by the BBC, but without bothering to Google it and confirm, I'm not 100% sure

 

The show is called 'Years and Years'. When I read the short bio, I got the impression of a dystopian political future. I like stuff like that and had visions of V for Vendetta and 1984 in my head, so I gave the first episode a try

Queue the first main characters: A mixed race couple. White husband, black wife. The program had actually started, it wasn't a commercial

Queue the second main characters: A gay couple

Story begins. One of the gay guys has a sister who is about to give birth. The baby is her second, as is it's father, who is Chinese and just like the first father, no longer around. This is all fine and normal

The brother explains why he doesn't want children. The way things are going, the world may not be a nice place to raise children. He then looks at the newborn and wonders what life will be like in his future. The show then progresses ahead five years, showing each of the childs birthdays and explaining what changes have been made, such as the following:

Trump has been elected for a second term. People are not happy. "You get the President you deserve" is spoken

The Ukranian army takes over the Government and invites in the Russian army to keep the peace

Notice how the show called both of those major events completely wrong?

Ukranian people start heading for the UK as refugees. They cross the English Channel in small boats. As the crisis worsens, 500 people make it across in two months

(Nobody is coming from Africa or the Middle East. Nobody is arriving in the numbers we are currently seeing in real life)

Makeshift camps are set up to house the refugees. Shipping containers are converted into homes for two people each. Nobody is housed in hotels

The show seems to have called everything wrong (or are they trying to sneakily change our perceptions of how migrants in real life are handled?)

Everyone who speaks out against anything to do with the progressive way of life comes across as a complete thick as pig-shit, bigot. There is a female polititian who I think is supposed to be modelled on Farage and a campaigner who visits the refugee camps and talks about why we should not be taking them in. Both are written to be evil characters who we are supposed to hate

Then I figured out what the dystopian future was all about. People were trying to stop the progressive future that we are currently looking at. People were speaking out against refugees and against supporting Palestine (Two specific examples given in the show)

The things that we now have going on in our current daily lives and the way things are going, that is the progressive, inclusive, equal future that we want. The dystopian element comes from the people who are trying to stop that. The right wing

To me, it's completely the opposite of a dystopian future. To the writers, progressive is the future

Anyway, remember the mixed race couple? At this point, they discover their daughter is transgender...

...and at that point I switched it off. I had managed twenty minutes

So there you have it. The worst peice of woke garbage I have ever seen in my life, and I only watched it for twenty minutes. Time that I will never get back

Next time, I'll pay more attention to the write up, before risking contaminating my eyeballs like that