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- Prime Video
- Sep 24, 2020
- Prime Video
- Sep 24, 2020
Summary Becky (Ashleigh LaThrop), Ian (Dan Byrd), Samantha (Jessica Rothe), Wilson Wilson (Desmin Borges) and Grant (Javon "Wanna" Walton) are fans of the Utopia comic and discover secret messages within its pages that predict major world events. They then find the comic protagonist, Jessica Hyde (Sasha Lane), is real and together they seek to s...
- Prime Video
- Sep 24, 2020
- Prime Video
- Sep 24, 2020
Summary Becky (Ashleigh LaThrop), Ian (Dan Byrd), Samantha (Jessica Rothe), Wilson Wilson (Desmin Borges) and Grant (Javon "Wanna" Walton) are fans of the Utopia comic and discover secret messages within its pages that predict major world events. They then find the comic protagonist, Jessica Hyde (Sasha Lane), is real and together they seek to s...
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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42% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
47% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
56
42% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
47% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
“Utopia” thinks big to erect its overarching structure, but thinks small to give that structure its support. And it’s loaded with great work from its cast, particularly Lane, a talented actress with a gift for slipping in and out of genres and easily fitting into each.
It demands to be binged, but it’s not just a thrill ride. There are so many interesting ideas in Utopia, and little echoes of other great science-fictions, such as Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, and paranoid film thrillers, such as The Parallax View (1974), that it seems unlikely to pause here.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 25 User Ratings
5.2
52% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
12% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
36% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 25 User Ratings
5.2
52% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
12% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
36% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
7.5
It starts off with a perfect balance of intrigue and dark humor. Sadly by episode 3 that humor is mostly running on fumes. Then it is left with its conspiracy drama which is OK, but no where as great as it could have been.
So 7.5 seems justifiable but 8 would be way too high. I will however round up to 8 to help offset the pretentious people who cant judge things on their own merit without being influenced by the source material and want to down rate something because it isnt the original.
Its a good drama. Could have been better, but definitely **** requires extensive mental gymnastics and pretentiousness to not see that.
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SEASON 1
Watchable for someone who didn’t know about the original UK series. Not that bad but not good either
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SEASON 1
Utopia is at times uncomfortable and occasionally gruesome, but as edgy dramas go, effectively maintains its momentum from one hour to the next. For those with the stomach for such stuff, that's more than enough to earn a place on a crowded streaming menu.
Even with its end-of-the-world urgency, this Utopia still feels sluggish, muddled, unfinished. It’s as if someone went to great pains to restore a classic car, added their own custom interior, and then forgot to fill up the tank with gas.
[It has] a nasty chilliness and a lack of empathy for its characters, who are blunt instruments Flynn uses to deliver shocks to the strapped-in audience. ... The show’s directors (Toby Haynes, Susanna Fogel and J.D. Dillard, so far) keep it moving right along; if it isn’t engaging, neither is it boring. And the cast is uniformly good, supplying more feeling, dimension and humor than the scripts indicate.
We get a generic, almost camp flippancy that patronises fantasy/sci-fi nerds, and makes it hard to distinguish this show’s group of reluctant heroes from the protagonists of any Scooby-Doo teen horror.
Flynn is unafraid of rapidly adding more and more branches to the Utopia mythology, which occasionally shocks but seldom intrigues. After seven episodes, the heroes remain underwritten archetypes, the villains are unconvincingly all-powerful yet constantly screwing up and there are more traumatized but precocious children (Javon Walton, Farrah Mackenzie) than there should be in a fight against the end of the world.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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SEASON 1
Nowhere near as good as the British version in every aspect and then they go and kill the main lead of the show just to Game of Thrones you... But this time it didn't work because it happens in episode 2 (way too early) and Rothe/Sam is the only watchable actor and character in the show. That leaves you with no characters to root for unlike Game of Thrones. Bad, bad writing....
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SEASON 1
Not even comparable to the original by Channel 4 back in 2013-2014. Heartbreaking and incredibly disappointing.
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SEASON 1
Drivel. This barely watchable, paltry imitation takes the subtly woven plot points of the original and violently forces them down your throat in the first episode. That's to say nothing of the utter lack of even an effort towards the artistry of the original which is as enthralling and outstanding today as it ever was. Even if this remake wasn't heresy, it's still utter trash.
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