Years and Years review, episode 4: Frighteningly plausible – like looking in the rear view window  The Independent

If 10 years ago you’d been told that the American reality TV star Donald Trump would be elected president of the United States, be feted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace, accused of collusion with the Russians, and had his genitals described as being “like the mushroom character in Mario Kart” by a former porn star mistress… well, you’d probably be a bit taken aback. Such is the skill in Years and Years (BBC1), Russell T Davies’s vision of Britain in the 2020s, that it is, mostly, frighteningly plausible. The story of the near future is told through the declining fortunes of the extended L…