The new Amazon drama Utopia was made for a different dystopia than the current one. “Why do we keep feeling like it’s the end of the fucking world?” asks a character, as a previously unidentified flu strain proliferates across America and the government stands by and does nothing.
The answer, disappointingly, is that “someone is ending the fucking world,” and it’s up to a group of conspiracy-minded nerds who’ve previously only “met” each other online to save humanity by...
solving prophetic puzzles in a years-old comic book. Utopia is an adaptation by Gone Girl novelist and screenwriter Gillian Flynn from a 2013-2014 British series of the same name (created by Dennis Kelly, who serves as an executive producer here).
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