Years and Years: Season 1, Episode 5 – Recap, Review (with Spoilers)
Fast forward to episode five, where Prime Minister Viv Rooks (Emma Thompson the actress) has a dozen oligarchs or corporations make bids on the five "Alternatives" ("Erstwhiles") - to privatize them, black hole sites of secret concentration camps for refugees and the homeless in a Brexit Britain that cannot deal with asylum seekers or the poor and homeless of Britain. These dozen of so business men at "Checkers" the Prime Minister's weekend home, get a brief lecture from PM Viv about how ugly the word "camp" is or concentrating things like people in them. She then lectures the businessmen who only want the land under them and surrounding these camps for profit and development, she lectures them on how when the British invented concentration camps in the second Boer War, then General Kitchner allowed no aid to the inhabitants in these camps. Natural selection takes over in the form of starvation, disease, crime and exposure to the elements and the camps will maintain the balance, same numbers if maintained this way as a clue as to how best profit from buying these sites from His Majesty's Government. One could almost imagine one being in present as a fly on the current White House walls as Steven Miller lectures Donald Trump on natural selection running our own concentrations camps on and near our southern borders. Etc. Just some lite HBO summer entertainment. Yeah right.
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