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My heart got broken, I hate you the screenplay writer, how could you do this to Daniel!!! OH POOR VIKTOR. But I have to say, you got me, best episode ever

Danny!? Why does he have to be gone! Honestly he was the only one I could actually stand😂 Difficult to watch seeing as I liked Danny at the beginning of the show and since I am biased having seen Russell Tovey in previous works and I can say that he for sure does not disappoint. Stellar performance and sad ending to Danny Lyons😭 Poor Viktor. But I sympathize with his siblings because I'm the youngest.

Russell T Davies has delivered another brilliant slice of contemporary SciFi, and this is his Game-Of-Thrones-Shock-Main-Character-Kill episode. It hit hard, was devastating and the build up was tense and terrifying.

However, after the shock wore off, I did think, why didn't Daniel just spend all that cash on hiring a decent, sea-worthy boat in the UK, and just go over and get Viktor? They could have arranged a pick up point via mobile phone. Sure, it would have been tough for Viktor to get to the coast line, but surely possible?

People complaining that the shots in the storm were vague, but that's what makes it so haunting: one can only imagine their suffering and their last hug, when they lost eachother and their last words. This is true horror.

Daniel's death was a really strong punch. He was the most likeable character and one than Edith the only one I deeply cared about. I don't think I've ever been so affected by a death as I am now. All the people here feeling bad for viktor - f* viktor, I couldln't care less about him. Just want Danny on the stage again.

Russell T Davies takes a look at the chances and risks people take when trying to escape persecution.

Daniel's happiness with Viktor is short lived in Spain as the government is overthrown and foreigners are told to leave.

A desperate Daniel wants to get Viktor illegally into Britain at any price. Daniel finds that people in the black market want payment upfront and then rip you off or the promise of help is not that was expected.

Meanwhile Stephen's affair is exposed. He was just like his father and his grandmother throws him out.

The fourth episode sees the world getting darker, nation states getting themselves into economic turmoil. A world where the extreme left and right thrive.

This was certainly an emotional episode. The Lyons family might never be the same again.

This entire episode just screamed "we have no budget". To think it was so cheap, they couldn't even afford to visually depict a major sequence (that's an essential part of the plot) set at sea so instead, we were presented with a gimmicky, flickering montage of vague, indistinguishable shots to act as an alternative way of presenting a main character's unexpected demise. It's a waste & a total missed opportunity - considering the tremendous talent involved both in front of & behind the camera. What's even more frustrating is the increasingly noticeable issues with pacing; I absolutely ADORE Russell & respect him enormously for what he's contributed to British television thus far in his career but this episode was - & it PAINS ME to say it - poor; things are just becoming so rushed & incoherent & there are countless fascinating concepts to explore but they're fleetingly mentioned & then swept aside with equal rapidity, being either no longer of any relevance or the story doesn't have time to reference them for longer. Thus, Years & Years is beginning to amalgamate in to what could've been a masterpiece - if it hadn't been so relentlessly rushed & condensed.