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Saturday, July 31, 2021

On the 2013 / 2014 UK TV show "Utopia" and the US remake of it released in 2020

 

Real life billed as fiction ??   You decide.

Some write-ups about it,  billed the show  as "science fiction"  or "conspiracy" or even as "comedy".   It's not any of those things.  There were two seasons and they ran from January 2013 to August 2014.  If you have a mind to watch it, you will find it on YouTube and also on Odysee.

I thought the Season 1 episodes were pretty good and one in particular made me think of how their politicians and ours here in Canada and also in the USA, Australia and New Zealand, are fearmongering people into taking the vaccines in this our present day and time.   Season 2 was a waste of time and energy.  The story got way, way, way off-tracked and the folks in charge of continuity from one thread in the previous episode to the next, fell asleep midway ... in my opinion. 

I won't say anything much about the storyline as I don't want to spoil it for anyone who might want to watch it. Maybe those who billed it as "comedy" were thinking about how the producers managed to find one of the ugliest, skinniest, black guys (he plays one of the main roles) who gets two pretty white girls to fall for him. Yeah, that's funny all right!  Also, the mindless violence in the show must have cost a pretty penny for the tonnes of fake blood bought for the gory effects.

I haven't seen the 2020 American remake of the UK show, but below is a review of it in The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/sep/25/utopia-review-sanitised-remake-is-no-match-for-cult-tv-original

 

Below are short vids about the UK 2013/2014 show and a trailer of the American 2020 one.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxgVMOmSldA

 

 2020 version

 



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2QNnoqc3XU

 




 

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