Years and Years Episode 5 | The Erstwhile Sites
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Vivienne Rook unveils her chilling solution to the population crisis.
Years and Years is a British television drama series which began broadcasting on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 14 May 2019 and will premiere on HBO in the United States on 24 June 2019. The series was created and written by Russell T Davies, and stars Emma Thompson as Vivienne Rook, an outspoken celebrity turned political figure whose controversial opinions divide the nation.
Hey guys, are there any particular clips from Years and Years you'd like me to upload?
Could you upload the first scene of episode 3, when Viv makes her IQ tests for voting remarks; plus the transition to 2026?
Could you upload the scene where Stephen transfers Daniel to the Erstwhile sites? Thank you for uploading these scenes!
@@Amaly1999 you mean Viktor? that was so.... I can't even describe what I felt seeing that.
Benjamin Nealon could you upload the scene where the banks close?
Abigase Yeah, I mean Viktor hahah sorry. But yeahhhg omg I was so shocked!
"We forget it because it worked". Chilling, sums up the whole series.
Jaw dropping since the first episode
Great line! So true.
2021 says hi
Mind you as she says the British created concentration camps during the Boear War. The Germans as good student lthat they are, learnt from that and applied it to their own camps.
This is what happens when populist politicians of likes of Trump, Hitler , Putin... get into power. This isn't science fiction or dystopian it's happening now.
Emma Thompson killed every scene. She's such a great actress
Unreal. She needs all the awards for this. I dunno how she pulled this off; this character could’ve been problematic in a less-skilled actor’s hands.
@@JackAShepherd yeah, she's so amazing considering she's usually in the Background
That is the reason why she is DAME Emma Thompson.
When she brings in the word “concentration” it sends chills down my spine. Wow.
The way she so casually advocates for genocide is chilling
Considering the 'they'd kill me' conversation she had prior to this implying there being a manipulative force in the shadow, her speech became like a presentation for an idea she was given to offer. It gives her a tragic air while being the main villain of the series.
I can’t think of “They’d kill me. They’d have me killed.” without a chill going up my spine. So effing perfect.
@@JackAShepherd I'm still wondering who she might have referred to.
which is always the mark of a greatly written villian, they must be given a sympathetic angle, to let the audience relate to the humanity in them, if only for a small amount of time
@@musicmadinoz Or she was delusional and making up a villain inside her head to justify her actions?
I wonder if she just meant the voters.
"Everything old happens again" is marvellous
It's deliberately crass.
This scene reveals something much, much deeper, something that actually happens nowadays. This is, how language disguises things we wouldn't approve, allowing them to perpetuate unnoticed. The discourses of racism, xenophobia, sexism and any other form of hateful discourse get to survive in time because they constantly change the way they are expressed through language, they become harder to be detected, by softening the words they use. It is a bit like what Foucault said about power, that it is more diffused in many different institutions, no longer concentrated in a single person (the king) as in the time of the old regimes, and therefore, power is not so easily detected, it is excercised in a more subtle way through language, establishing what is normal and what is not.
it reminds me of when people say that somebody is "traditional" when referring to a racist, sexist, homophobic etc relative. "My father is very traditional" for example when talking about him being homophobic or racist or whatever is something I've heard a lot of people say. And the effect it has is covering up the actual consequences of those beliefs, instead implying that they are just sheltered or quaint or maybe even from a simpler time. The true consequence of the beliefs are things such as the policies which refuse gay men from donating blood. It's the euphemistic language which covers up the real horrors and effects of these beliefs and ideologies, making it easier to ignore the discrimination they lead to under the guise of being "old-fashioned". Sure, everybody knows what you mean, but there's a different reaction from people when you say someone has a traditional worldview instead of calling them out for being bigoted.
@@edward4840 Absolutely! Another interesting example is the Soros conspiracy. It's plain old antisemitic "jews want to rule the world, they already control the banks". Nowadays you cannot say that out loud, but pointing out one specific man, who not so casually is a jewish billionaire, you can spread the same antisemitic message without people noticing.
I love when British media acknowledges its dark colonialist past and having Rook point out that the British Empire used concentration camps in the 2nd Boer War before the Nazis is a great example of that, even if she is a terrible person that is using it to justify her concentration camps. Kudos, Russell T. Davies.
IMO Rory Kinnear is an immensely underrated actor. His performance in years and years, as well as Black Mirror were terrific.
like his dad
Liz Truss wearing that dress at Tory conference yesterday, no coincidence!
Predictive programming
@@tanthaman 💯
The scariest part is her charisma. You can see how she so easily puts the room at ease.
What I love about this scene is how absolutely nobody cared or asked for this explanation. These businessmen were going to go along with this no matter what words were used. But Vivienne talks here like a person trying to convince *themselves* that what they’re doing is right. That what they’re doing is justifiable. That while yes, they are condoning the creating and maintenance of modern day concentration camps, it’s actually not that bad and that it’s all just a question of words and preconceptions. She talks like a person with a guilty conscience and ends up highlighting a problem that no one there was likely even thinking about. Such a well written character and series.
perhaps or perhaps she was giving voice to unspoken fears of anyone in that room. Daring to say what they were all thinking and confront it head on. Its what she'd always done right from when we first see her saying she doesn't give a fuck about Isreal and Palestine.
Not sure this was supposed to come true so quickly.
Yeah, not in 10 years. In 20 maybe?
Well, in the US they're already locking refugees up it shit conditions
They're doing it in this country as well. Yarl's Wood, Harmondsworth. The Tinsley House model worked for a while (although still amounted to detention and removal) but its funding was cut 10 yrs ago and now conditions for women and children have been reported as 'unacceptable'. Not on the same scale as the immigration detention and removal camp system in the United States (which existed long before the last 18 months), but still pretty bad and not talked about enough.
It’s starting now!
They knew EXACTLY what they were doing..
Honestly, I sat watching this series in absolute amazement. Fantastic series, fantastic acting and so freaking scary. Loved it
It's propaganda and you've been scaremongered. It's ok to be white.
@@seronymus Explaining that the British empire did bad things is not equal to "being white is bad". The fact that you're trying to muddy the waters like this says to me that you're probably trying to defend those policies but in a more convoluted way.
@@seronymus lol what? That's sarcasm right?
@@sonnykingcomposer How am I supposed to remember what I said 11 months ago, Slowpoke? I am never tainted by irony though. Maybe you are, but not me. Yeah this scene and show suck a lot though. Britain used to be a land of countless saints and now it's cursed. Just Balkanize already, Free Wales Scotland NI...Cornwall, Essex whatever just finally kill this degenerate liberal imperialism.
@@seronymus I think this show is brilliant, a true show of how good a writer RTD is, an absolutely unique experience. And Vivian rook, what a brilliant character!
Brilliantly accurate of the troubled times in which we live in, Thompson nails this scene, such a terrific actress.
“Do we remember it?
We forget it.”
And that’s how it can happen again.
Four years on from this series, and, not to get overtly political, but it feels like our government was watching this and taking notes.
The pandemic was a curveball that not even Davies saw coming but now it definitely feels like we're back on track again for this show to become reality. Scary stuff...
Emma Thompson is absolutely remarkable. I wish there were Season 2.
Well, this just gets more and more timely and/or prescient...
Everything in this show had a meaning and a resolution which is very impressive to the writer.
If they have a second series, chances are they will work around people like the businessmen in that room, and what happened to them. Vivienne Rook was just one character, a figurehead which gave these people an outlet for their cruelty. She may have been charged and arrested (allegedly), but those people still exist who were lurking in the shadows all that time looking to profit from human misery, and for all we know, they were emboldened by her and will no doubt try and get back into positions where they are legitimised, either through insidious campaigns of their own, or through a coup.
The way Vivienne sells the idea, like it's just a measure of compassion almost, that the sites are for the people our society cannot cope with, but it's better than just letting them die on the streets, it's barbaric. She is literally justifying probably genocide, but sells it like charity. Emma Thompson deserves some accolade for her performance in this show, simply because she portrayed a manipulative sociopath perfectly.
Emma Thompson is such a wow-factor actress! Amazing!
Brilliant. Emma Thompson is God. And Rory Kinnear says it all with that expression.
There was a time this dialogue eould be safely consigned to the realms of extreme dystopian fantasy...in the era of Trump and Farage and holocaust denial its all too chillingly plausible. Again Russel T Davies with some top level chilling dialogue delivered perfectly by Emma Thompson as a PM ten years from now of a scarred post brexit britain with a far right government
@@seronymus You're not actually from England, are you?
@@FortoFight he is a Russian troll
well, almost 3 years since brexit happened and we are rocketing towards this extreme dystopian fantasy. truss even wore the same damn dress as her. these sort of 'facilities' are literally in the news right now
@@FortoFight Care to reexamine your thoughts? THE many laws the tories implemented this year are very authoritarian.
@@kylejamessmithproductions7848 I don't remember what they said but you should be able to see that my comment was a reply to someone else.
Just now discovering this series, watched episode 5 tonight. It left me shaking. Here in the US the "Four Star Party" equivalent is out of the closet and pushing hard for the seat of power.
I looove this series !!
As a Boer, I respect her, she is a great talent.
Thank You for uploading these scenes
Emma Thompson, always brilliant
Horrifying solution but an incredible speech, every word was clearly thought out yet still comes across as spontaneous.
Gorgeous, one of the best scenes in television.
Fantastic... and perhaps this film will cause a few to read history? Because we sure are doing a swell job of repeating all our past mistakes, ad nauseum.
This is actually happening in Kent at RAF Manston.
breaks my heart. our country is rapidly spiralling into an far-right hellhole
well, here we are i guess. i want to rewatch this show, but frankly it is too close to home right now.
Is that true? That people do not know abou the origin of concentration camps and how were people treated during Boer war? Because I live in the Czech Republic and we learned about it in history class in secondary school.
its not widely taught in schools in the UK at least, the camps are only mentioned in terms of WW2. I can't remember ever being taught about any of the horrible things Britain did, its just not on the curriculum (I did history til I was 16 in England, maybe it comes up if you continue history to 18 although I don't think so)
I learned about it before the age of 16 and I live in the UK. We had this breadth section about the history of British empires and migration from 720AD to present day. The Boer war was part of the study of Africa in the late 19th century
They dont teach us this in America, yet this what is going on in our country right now.
I only learned about it due to the boer part of my heritage. I had family that was intered in one of the camps.
I knew about the origins of "concentration camps", but because I am Spanish, and the Spanish army used them before the Boers, in the Cuban war of Independence. I've always known that the Spanish were the first ones in its use. What I didn't know was that Boers were a step forward starting the modern conception of "concentration camps".
Terrifying and plausible.
All too plausible given this government present policy or attitude to immigrants.
Your country needs You. Remember who invented these camps. Thank you.
You all dance around it. It's in the dark corner of your mind. Youve defined yourself, your meaning, your success and failures in negation of it. It's coming back. Because there's nothing else worth doing.
How prophetic..
or just desensitisation to a plan years and year in the making
Mind you they forgot to talk about holocaust. Though hat would of ruined their plans.
This is literally what Trump is doing to Central Americans.
New York is gonna want this soon.
The dress- Liz Truss wore on Wednesday- who voted for that?
Scariest scene ever broadcast on television.
Did Priti Patel take notes from this drama?
No but LIZ Truss has! 😳
How scary was that????
If some people have the misfortune of surviving a nuclear war, it will be like the Stone Age, except the technological knowledge may or may not still be here. Who knows ? Well my instinct tells me there will be a nuclear war in 2027. But the parties involved may surprise some. What should I do if I have got four years left to live ?
We remember it.
THIS SERIES WAS PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING! (and I DON'T mean 'in a general sense' either!)
Where can I watch this series??
Too much of this show is happening in 2020
Because that is how the elites the masonic entities work. They don't hide their stuff. They plant it in things like movies and shows and those that are watchmen will figure it out. Hollywood is good at this. I don't take these shows for entertainment, I used to and realized I need to watch for clues instead of being entertained. TO help me prepare for future, mentally, physically and spiritually
Just so we’re clear, we forget it because it was A Bad Thing The U.K. Did, and we can’t learn about those things because the U.K. is the perfect place for all people, ow let’s all join hands and venture off into the sunset!
They were originally from the Anglo-Boer war, yes, but they weren't just places where displaced people were housed. The English caused Boers to be displaced during the war cause they had much greater military strength, then put the poor and homeless in these camps. There they lived in squalor, were mistreated, died, and developed a hatred for the English that bled into the 20th century. After the war, Afrikaners developed a national identity so strong that they started forming political parties that would eventually lead to Apartheid. While Apartheid benefitted both Afrikaans and English people, it's no coincidence that EVERY Apartheid president was an Afrikaner.
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Fascinating. You’re saying the former victims of atrocities later committed atrocities themselves?
In this case, yes, they did.@@paftaf
@@paftaf just like in Palestine.....
@@jhony401 Exactly.
Please pay a visit to the Women's Memorial in Bloemfontein
Amazing ease here ease drop into the UKIP or Brexit Manifesto.
I think of this monologue every time I see one of those white rose anti mask/anti vax stickers in town
We are fucked
Its like the starvation island Russia had. Genocide.
The British equivalent of the Wannsee Conference.
“We forget.”
Hitler didn’t …
Just call them Freedom Camps instead.
SuellaFarage
hope i dont get sent to the camps
I hate the flippant tone of British drama (and I'm British! 😂)
This the ultimate destination of Brexit fascism.
s/o les cours d'anglais
Holy fuck
Like if you came back to this video after seeing trump
It sound like what's going on in GAZA
History WILL repeat itself... IF YOU DO NOTHING... Never give up your guns!
Damn imagine if it was the case with Coronavirus
Which it is. Everything you see in these shows or movies has already been cleverly planned. It's just icing on the cake when they show you the series and talk about it and Bragg about it.
australia would like a word with you. they're saying they're not the same
Just wait until they release their future covid strain, the camps will fill and most will die
Concentration camps are much older than the Boer War. They originated during the Spanish Cuban Ten Years War (1868-1878), so not a British invention at all. Lazy writing.
it's not lazy writing lmao. that's literally what the character is trying to do. frame it as a British invention that worked etc. fascists lie constantly
@@intraum Good point. I hadn't thought of it that way..I hope that was deliberate, though, and not ignorance by the writer...
@@trebleking1641 Russell T Davies is one of, if not the, greatest drama writers in the UK. He knows his stuff.
Predictive programming
lol so over the top
It's a television show, what do you expect. But there's always a bit of truth to it.
lol so near the truth. ostriches do not like it :)
@@meris8486 he's saying you're putting your head in the sand.
@@gramule
I'm willing to accept that this sort of thing is more grounded in reality if there is evidence. But the idea that she would talk so flippantly about concentration camps and go on a long ramble in front of these people is ludicrous. Seems like a scene that Russel wrote in to be blunt
@@meris8486 lol wake up and smell the coffee...