Many long scenes are used in trying to decode the comic book with help arriving from strange quarters. We run circles: into plots and subplots and backstories. Even in something like Gone Girl, she didn’t shy away from blood and gore: Remember the scene with Rosamund Pike and Neil Patrick Harris? The problem with Utopia is it takes too long to come to the point. But looking at Flynn’s screenwriting oeuvre, she has no issues with violence. A particular scene which involves an eye and a spoon will make even the most sturdy of show watchers squeamish.
The American version apparently has toned down the violence quotient, but it is still gory. The original had received its shares of criticism for being too violent and dark. Helmed by Gillian Flynn, Utopia is a remake of a 2013 British show. Utopia could perhaps be seen as pertinent to this time, but it could also be perceived to be adding to the anxiety and stress. Utopia hits too close to home, and the CDC workers clad in yellow hazmat suit are too reminiscent of the blue PPE kits that medical personnel are wearing around the world as they fight Covid-19.īigg Boss OTT 2: Aaliya Siddiqui remembers how she fell in love with Nawa. We are familiar with how that pans out, but to have the same theme spread over eight long episodes can be trying. House MD, The Good Doctor and even the recent season of The Resident had plots constructed around it.
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The ‘spread of a deadly virus’ has been par for the course in many TV shows, ranging from police-procedurals to medical dramas. The timing of the show could not have been worse, or best, depending on your interests in the ‘pandemic genre’. We meet John Cusack (Kevin Christie) who heads a giant pharma company, and then there is Michael Stearns (Rainn Wilson), a virologist, who meanders his way into the middle of it all. While the group plays hide and seek with the bad guys, aided by Hyde, a deadly virus has unleashed itself around the US and people are dying in hordes. Then there are the trigger-happy bad guys who will not stop at anything to get the comic book in their possession. Surely, the protagonist of the comic book herself, Jessica Hyde (Sasha Lane) too wants a piece of the action. The group shares a rather unhealthy obsession of conspiracy theories, but they are not the only ones coveting the comic book. Plans are hatched to lay their hands on Utopia because it has the keys to events that are unfolding around them. They have never met in real life, but have formed a friendship based on online discussions and dissections of the said comic book. Enter a group of ragtag young adults who geek out over the comic book. The appearance of Utopia, a sequel to Dystopia, sends the comic book universe into a tizzy, attracting bidders from all over. It all starts rather innocuously, as things usually do, in an old house in suburban Chicago where a lone original copy of Utopia - a comic book - surfaces. These are the plot arcs from Amazon Prime Video’s latest big-ticket offering Utopia. No these are not headlines from a newspaper. Utopia cast: John Cusack, Rainn Wilson, Sasha Lane, Dan Byrd and Javon WaltonĪ contagious virus with no vaccine, and big pharma scrambling to make millions.
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