Years and Years

'Years and Years' Trailer: Emma Thompson Tears Britain Apart in HBO Limited Series

For anyone who has the stomach to watch a fictional leader slowly create an irreparable rift in a country based on stoking anti-immigrant fears and inciting politically motivated violence, “Years and Years” offers the chance to see Emma Thompson take on the role. Thompson stars in the limited series, the latest in a line of BBC ventures that have a stateside home at HBO. The actress plays a lightning-rod government figure who stakes claim to some all-too-familiar outgrowths of divisive populist rhetoric. As her success takes hold of the coun... more