YEARS AND YEARS
HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET
Now that we’re already two episodes into Years and Years, and the near-future plot has moved more than five years ahead, we’ve seen how Russell T. Davies has imagined our political tomorrow – which has us witnessing, in this what-if global political drama, not only the re-election of Donald Trump, but the election, in 2024, of… President Pence. And Emma Thompson, as a reactionary British headline-grabber who ascends to MP, has just taken the reins of power back in the U.K. Add all the inventive, slightly scary technical innovations imagined here, and Years and Years feels like a miniseries offshoot of the brilliant, provocative Black Mirror – also from England, which is generating some terrific TV of late.