She's introduced early on as a solitary drifter with violent tendencies, and she quickly becomes Utopia's central player. Jessica is the fictional star of the mysterious comics, but she's also a real person. Michael Stearns (Rainn Wilson), a microbiology expert who works for Christie. Kevin Christie (John Cusack), the CEO of a company that's developing a meat alternative, and Dr. We meet Arby (Christopher Denham), a Utopia fan with a bad haircut, terrible fashion sense, and a dark, unknowable secret. They buy into the theory and believe Utopia contains the secret to an outbreak that threatens the entire planet.Īn early focus on inexplicably, enigmatically cruel acts is the propulsive energy meant to hook you.Īs we move past the auction and an opening hour that ends with a sudden burst of bloodletting, the world expands and the dark tone of the show sets in. That's how we meet the show's gang of nerds: Becky (Ashleigh LaThrop), Sam (Jessica Rothe), Wilson (Desmin Borges), Ian (Dan Byrd), and Grant (Javon Walton). So when Utopia is discovered and set to be auctioned off at a fan convention, the conspiracy people get in line. There's also a separate sub-scene of conspiracy theorists who believe the comic is littered with clues that foretold outbreaks like SARS and Zika.
#Utopia show series
The comic is popular enough in the world of the series to have developed a committed fandom of cosplayers and lore geeks. It all has something to do with a comic called Dystopia and its recently discovered follow-up, Utopia.
Yes, there's violence, but "Why is this happening?" is the question you're meant to get stuck on. That means an early focus on inexplicably, enigmatically cruel acts is the propulsive energy meant to hook you. But it doesn't even start to reveal itself in a meaningful way until the second and third hours. And that's not even mentioning the story's ill-timed focus on a mysterious pandemic, or the vaguely anti-vaxx sentiment that pervades its slow reveal. Truthfully, Amazon's mean-spirited adaptation of the UK series from 2013 overflows with so much unearned nastiness that my interest started to waver by the end of the first episode. It was somewhere around the time the first child died that I decided Utopia isn't for me.Īt least I think that's when it was.
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