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THE END OF UTOPIA?

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February 22, 2013

Can this really be the end?

So, Utopia is no more, at least for the time being.

The DVD release (out on 11th March) labels the Channel 4 drama as Series 1 so there is almost certainly more to come.

Part of me thinks that there is nothing more to say but as I’m already suffering from withdrawal symptoms I would certainly be tuning in enthusiastically.

With many of the main characters dead, maimed or gravely ill the whole mind fuck trip will need to be reinvented anew. Call me an eternal optimist but I hope that, if there is a follow-up, it is done for reasons other than merely to cash in on its success. Continue reading →

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CHANNEL FOUR IN UTOPIA

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January 24, 2013

Jessica Hyde (Fiona O’Shaughnessy) is a blast in Utopia

There are plenty of things to admire in Channel 4’s slick new drama Utopia written by Dennis Kelly. I won’t attempt a plot summary; suffice to say it involves a ‘MacGuffin‘ of global proportions and plenty of fuel for conspiracy theorists everywhere.

Episode 1 opened with two cold-blooded killers in a comic shop and closed with a gruesome torture scene. This level of brutality will put off the squeamish but this is really nothing we haven’t seen in any Tarantino movie or in The Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men. I don’t really see what all the fuss it about. It’s shocking, of course, but that’s the nature of violence whether on or off-screen. If it’s right for the story, and it is here, then it is justified. Continue reading →

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