Slight comic relief is provided by Rainn Wilson as a virologist-patsy whose research is commandeered for use in the big bad conspiracy. They’re accompanied by a grim young woman (Sasha Lane of ‘‘American Honey’’) who’s a character in the comic and whose father might have written it they’re pursued by a doughy killer in a windbreaker (Christopher Denham) with ties to a businessman (John Cusack) whose level of evil is a central part of the puzzle.
The story, once it gets going, centers on a small band of fan girls and boys who are forced to go on the run because of their accidental connection to the comic book and are devoted, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, to decoding its mysteries. ‘‘Utopia’’ begins with the discovery of a lost comic book, called ‘‘Utopia,’’ thought to contain coded clues to viral outbreaks such as Zika and severe acute respiratory syndrome. The book draws the attention of comics nerds and of a pair of nondescript but lethal operatives who do a lot of damage at a convention where the ‘‘Utopia’’ manuscript is offered for sale. Robot,’’ ‘‘The Prisoner,’’ certain Christopher Nolan movies - but if you like this sort of thing, here it is. Con Desmin Borges, Dan Byrd, John Cusack, Christopher Denham. (Seven episodes were available for review.) It’s a pale shadow of the genre’s exemplars - ‘‘Mr. Cast Utopia Un film di Toby Haynes, Susanna Fogel, JD Dillard. ‘‘Utopia’’ is the latest example, and a fairly elaborate one, of the guessing game as an end in itself - pandemic, conspiracy and doomsday prepping are all fodder for a narrative puzzle that’s only beginning to come into focus as the season ends. Add in a disinformation conspiracy fed through social-media boiler rooms and an overall end-of-days atmosphere, and you have 2020 in an eight-episode nutshell. Except that the series, streaming now on Amazon Prime Video, isn’t exactly about any of those things. Angry mobs protest quarantine restrictions. A vaccine is being rushed into production. city to another, and the word ‘‘pandemic’’ is in common use.
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For a show that’s based on a 2013 British series and has been in the works for years at different networks and with different writers attached, ‘‘Utopia’’ couldn’t feel - on the surface - much more timely.Ī deadly flu is hopping from one U.S.
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