EPISODE
Utopia - Season 1
A group of young adults, who meet online, get a hold of a cult underground graphic novel, which not only pins them as a target of a shadowy deep state organization, but also burdens them with the dangerous task of saving the world.
30 October 1981, Woodstock, New York, USA
16 March 1979, Illinois, USA
September 22, 2020
Just when some of it started to make sense, no thanks to limited character development and complicated plot, it got messier and I gave up trying.
September 22, 2020
Nothing and no one is safe or sacred in Utopia... There are no good guys, only people who have the right endgame in mind. And that endgame is brutally imaginative, fantastical, and violent. You can't stop watching.
September 21, 2020
Flynn and her team have figured out the beats well, connecting just enough disparate parts in each episode without tipping their full hand too early.
September 24, 2020
"Utopia" is littered with parallels to the country's pandemic predicament, but it's all stuck inside a cartoonish vacuum that even when the series is on the cusp of forming a breakthrough, it only becomes sillier the deeper down the rabbit hole you go.
September 24, 2020
Utopia is a disappointing mess that fails to live up to the acclaim of its British precursor.
September 24, 2020
Utopia is fast-paced, violent, oddly funny and sinister - the remake has a lively formula that works and should be a crowd-pleaser for mature audiences.
September 24, 2020
Maybe there's a way this version of the show could have been subversive, necessary, and vital, but it ultimately refuses to commit to introspection or conversation around the tropes it plays with.
September 23, 2020
[Utopia] might prove worth the wait, but it's hard to say. On the evidence of the first episode, this is big budget but low stakes: a very American utopia.
September 24, 2020
Even though Cusack's character - Dr Kevin Christie - is an American, I'm worried that Utopia might play into the Trumpsters' narrative that the Covid-19 virus was manufactured in a Chinese laboratory.
September 24, 2020
A mild recommendation for the performances but it's awfully bleak and cynical for 2020
September 24, 2020
Utopia is one of those confusing shows that has just enough awesome moves to make you feel confused and conflicted about the wealth of unexplored character impulses, and it is "timely" in a way that could make you feel a little patronized.
September 23, 2020
An at-times maddening, at-times fascinating, but always twisty show that thrives on shocking you.
