The Simpsons is not the only series that has divinatory gifts. years and yearsa dystopian miniseries imagined by Russell T. Davies, the creator of queer as folkpredicted in 2019 that Queen Elizabeth II’s death would occur in 2022.
In a quick sequence, a tearful character looks at a television, from which a crowd can be heard chanting: “Long live the king.” The scene is all the more disturbing in that it echoes the news twice, also evoking a Russian invasion of the Ukraine.
years and years immerses viewers in the next 15 years, through the eyes of an English family in the post-Brexit UK which watches helplessly as the world develops politically, socially, technologically and ecologically.
Various other fictions have imagined the death of the queen, but often in a way more far-fetched than years and years. In a controversial episode, South Park this is how he shows his suicide. And in family manthe monarch dies in a scene that evokes the death of Lady Di.
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