TV Review Years And Years final episode

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Spoilers A great series with a disappointing finale. Even trying to shoehorn in a utopian finale this still came across as pretty downbeat. I'm not shooting you, just me, oh, I can't do it. I'll just shoot this git instead. The family playing its part in the revolution went rather too easy. The destruction of the transmission block tower was in every trailer so rather obvious it was coming. In an earlier episode Viv shut down every phone and recording devise with a pen (sonic screwdriver) sized gadget. Now it takes a full metal tower. The concentration camp escape was reminiscent of Gwen trashing the Welsh camp in an episode of Torchwood. Viv got little to do - the opening borrowing of Trump's best known soundbites, fake news, enemy of the people, etc then she isn't seen until her arrest which are told might be a lookalike - this made little real sense. The prospect of another puppet PM was more credible. Then there is the AI Galifreyan Matrix thought transfer and long drawn out speech on family love teaser where we get a Sopranos finale style frustrating as hell fade out before we know if it works or not. The medics / IT techs being new empathetic characters we are expected to take in at the last minute. It was going for A Handmaid's Tale (novel) style after it was all over epilogue effect but it just doesn't work, and the gran appears to be immortal without becoming virtual anyway. I found it a rather anti-climatic - loved the speech about £1 tee shirts and not protesting when automated tills took over - I already refuse to be served by non human shop assistants. Arthur Chappell