![]() If any shadowy elites have a plan to get us there, this is your moment. We wouldn’t have to be living in a perfect society for Utopia to play the way it’s supposed to, but we’d need to build something better than this. was first introduced to Utopia on a visit home to the UK in 2013. If the country ever gets to the other side of this pandemic, there may come a time when Utopia can be appreciated for what it is: an inferior American copy of a pretty good British TV show. Unable to ever return to their old lives, Ian and Becky are forced to face the terrifying reality of life on the run. 'UTOPIA - One day your darkest fears come to life. With Fie Baro, Unni Bendigtsen, Geir Bratland, Bjrn Alexander Brem. There’s nothing wrong with extending that invitation, but it’s better to do it intentionally, not as an accident of history. Utopia: Directed by Daniel William Bones. Every time the Utopia kids uncover another piece of the conspiracy, it’s a new invitation to contemplate just how screwed we are. Make whatever art you like-the audience isn’t your problem! But if you’ve made something about a scrappy group of kids uncovering a giant conspiracy, and it turns out that in the time since you finished shooting, that exact conspiracy theory has suddenly revealed itself to be a) believed by a significant portion of the population and b) deadly, it might not be a bad idea to push the release date.Įven if everyone who sees Utopia is capable of distinguishing fact from fantasy-and that’s vanishingly unlikely in a nation that is sending QAnon followers to Congress-it’s impossible to enjoy a story where the heroes persuade themselves that shadowy forces have manufactured a phony pandemic to trick people into taking a dangerous vaccine when those exact beliefs are helping to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans. It’s not the filmmakers’ fault we’re in this mess, it’s not their fault so much of the public is superstitious and gullible, and it won’t be their fault if Utopia gives some dumbass the confidence they need to quit wearing a mask and infect and kill you or the people you care about. A group of five comic book fans find themselves in grave danger from a shadowy organization. We are in the middle of an actual pandemic, a staggering number of Americans sincerely believe that that pandemic is a politically motivated hoax, and an equally staggering number believed vaccines were harmful years before COVID-19 emerged. 2013-2013 2 Seasons Channel 4 Drama TVMA. You can probably see the problem here, and it’s an insurmountable one. An epic film in its production, scope and revelations, UTOPIA reveals that apartheid is deep within Australia's past and present and that Aboriginal people are still living in abject poverty and Third World conditions, with a low life expectancy and disproportionately high rate of deaths in police custody. The two seasons of the original series is also available to stream on Amazon in the U.K.Send me updates about Slate special offers. Utopia is, though, an enjoyable well-paced dark and still very violent conspiracy thriller, full of twists and pending danger. With everything that has happened this past year, the main plot of Utopia about a flu pandemic may feel strangely too close to home, especially with all the conspiracy theories that have been thrown around on social media in the past months. The new Amazon series though boasts a great cast, with the introduction of new characters and plotlines, such as Sam played by Jessica Rothe, Rainn Wilson’s virologist Michael Stearns, and John Cusack’s influential entrepreneur Dr Kevin Christie and his controversial meat substitute development at his pharmaceutical company. This may sound trivial, but this little detail, which subtly added a tinge of humor and character, exemplifies the major differences between the two shows. ![]() ![]() The henchman’s distinctive white moccasins are also sadly missing in the new version. If you compare the two, Kelly’s feels more stylized, brutal and scarier. Any information you publish in a comment, profile, work, or Content that you post or import onto AO3 including in summaries, notes and tags, will be accessible. One sequence which Flynn’s version has kept is the horrifying eye-gouging scene. Flynn’s version resembles any other regular TV shows. 1974, England - Scientist Philip Carvel has a fateful meeting with a young woman, Milner, bonding over a shared ideology their influence on each other will lead to the creation of a virus - their solution to the worlds over-population. Gillian Flynn’s version, in contrast, has taken all of its originality out, and its very dark humor, with only the bare bones of the storyline intact and slightly less brutal violence. Dennis Kelly’s series is quirky, visually-striking and surprising. It pales in comparison to the original, however. ![]() If you’ve never seen the original British series, the new version will appear intriguing enough.
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