#C4 utopia series 1 reviews series

Maybe this is a reflection of how deeply despairing I have been over the past few months how cynicism, despite my best efforts, has lodged permanently at the base of my brain.

#C4 utopia series 1 reviews series

(The Channel 4 series is not available in the U.S.) But with its sheer disturbing relevance-and a psychological turn of the screw that one might expect from showrunner Flynn-the American Utopia is so twisted that I found it hard to look away. I haven’t seen the much-lauded British original, so I can’t compare the two.

to a future just a few months or years ahead of ours, where mysterious viruses are so commonplace that they’ve become a part of the fabric of everyday life. (Alas for us.) The American version of Utopia, from Gone Girl’s Gillian Flynn, adapts Dennis Miller’s 2013 series from the U.K. Sure, there are significant differences between the world of the show and our own current nightmare for one thing, the characters are still able to gather in public, sans masks, without fear of contagion, because the public health system has managed to cordon off infected patients from the rest of the population. This is the world of Utopia, a sci-fi thriller series that echoes and rhymes with our current reality in ways both compelling and deeply upsetting. Desperation and disillusionment causes some people to turn to wildly complex conspiracy theories-where secret cabals of the rich elite conspire to kill children, sometimes with bespoke viruses developed in corporate labs.

Some corporation says they have a vaccine, but the FDA hasn’t approved it yet. The world’s already in bad shape, what with climate change and social fragmentation and all-and then across the country people start getting an aggressive flu, which is spreading at an alarming rate.