When a final issue is discovered and goes up for auction, the friends - organized and dedicated Samantha ( Jessica Rothe), timid Ian ( Dan Byrd), kind, mysteriously ill Becky ( Ashleigh LaThrop), and conspiratorial Wilson Wilson ( Desmin Borges) - gather to try to buy it in order to decode its meaning and maybe save the world from the coming plague. It follows a small band of nerdy friends who bonded online over their obsession with a comic called Utopia, which they believe isn't fictional, but is filled with prophetic hidden messages about the end of the world, written by an unknown author. The conspiracy thriller comes from Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, who writes and executive-produces this remake of a British series of the same name from 2013, moving the action from London to Chicago but keeping the structure of the story and a lot of the tone (the black comedy in unexpected moments feels very British). But if that sounds even a little bit like something you might be into, you have to check out Utopia. This show is tremendously violent and thematically dark, and undercuts it all with an ironic sense of humor. And to be frank, if that's how you feel, Utopia might not be for you even in less timely circumstances. If that makes you say "Yeah, I'm out, I don't want to see that right now," understandable. Before we really get into this review, something has to be addressed: Amazon Prime's Utopia Season 1 features a pandemic spreading across America and killing children.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |