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It's not TV, It's HBO. Ever since that slogan was first publicized almost 30 years ago, HBO has continuously remained at the forefront of television programming. Their comedy and drama series have revolutionized television as a medium, with The Sopranos and Game of Thrones drastically changing what audiences expected from their weekly television shows. Very quickly, the tag of "HBO show" relayed an expectation of quality.
However, Years and Years excels where the countless other shows trying to speak to the times failed by focusing not on the demagogue politician but instead on the Manchester-based Lyons family. Years and Years examines how the family, both as a whole and individually, navigates the many unsettling changes in the 15 years after Vivienne's controversial moment.
Co-created by Israeli filmmakers Hagai Levy and Joseph Cedar and Palestinian filmmaker Tawfik Abu-Wael, Our Boys, which would be condemned by both the Israeli Prime Minister and his son, carefully and sympathetically approached the material, focusing on the families as they navigated their grief and desire for justice.
Amy Adams is spectacular as an emotionally vulnerable reporter attempting to bury her past trauma who returns home to investigate the murders of two young girls. Her return home, coupled with the viciousness of the murders, forces her to confront both her relationship with her mother and her larger, buried trauma. The overarching mystery is terrifically unspooled by Jean-Marc Vallée with the same deftness he applied in his previous HBO outing, the first season of Big Little Lies.
4 'Olive Kitteridge' Created by Jane Anderson Olive Kitteridge, starring Emmy-winning performances from Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins and Bill Murray, HBO's must-watch miniseries adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's 2008 novel, is one of the most lauded and impressively acted seasons of television it has ever produced.
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