Really hating the awful, distracting soundtrack to Years And Years - which is surprisingly from an incredibly talented composer, Murray Gold - that plays constantly throughout major sequences & overwhelms the audio until character's voices become obscured & we're left with an annoying racket interspersed between scenes.
Now that the first (and worst) painfully noticeable issue is out of the way & acknowledged, as for the actual content of the show, Episode 2 is camp, cheesy & ridiculous - enjoyably cynical & brilliantly pessimistic with some incredible moments encapsulating the mess of a predicament the UK currently finds itself in - and they're SO Russell T. Davies - but our suspension of disbelief is somewhat challenged by how overly dramatic & apocalyptic things have become in such a very short period of time - with unlikely events occurring consecutively at the end of every installment until you question whether the protagonists are truly living in the every-day, painfully normal & monotonous environment the story finds itself set in or if they're simply cursed by sheer bad luck, taking you out of things & ruining the relatability & thus, it's beginning to feel less like a grounded, realistic, cautionary tale / dark journey in to our potential, bleak complex future & more like an in-depth adaptation of Russell's previous Doctor Who science fiction outing, "Turn Left".
Due to that, it's severely lacking in any subtlety & feels almost as if people should be talking directly in to the camera because dialogue is clearly being addressed to the viewing audiences already. It's a shame as the show began with such promise - genuinely possessing the same level of potential found in a similar feature like Black Mirror - but when the point is being beaten over your head until you feel the throbbing tinge of concussion, it's less of a show & more of a personal / political statement -- which I'd have no quarrels with if Years & Years were clearer & honest about its intentions from the beginning in trailers.