Platypuschow Utopia is a show I'd never heard of and truth be told had it not been a recommendation I don't think I'd have ever given it a chance even if I had.It's a remarkably crafted British television show that managed 12 episodes across 2 seasons and it's certainly difficult to categorise.It tells the story of a group of people who get pulled into a shady plot that......nope, I pretty much say anything at all and I'll wander into spoiler territory.What I will say about Utopia is that its creation is outstanding, the use of colour is hypnotic and highly memorable! Twin that with some great sound work and a fitting score and it's crafted in a way that puts other shows to shame.The story, the execution, the performances also fantastic so why am I not rating it higher?Though the creation is a pure masterwork it is also riddled with flaws. The characters are mostly very two dimensional, generic, cliched and not all that interesting. Don't get me wrong there are some good ones, but the majority are somewhat lacking.Though I'm not keen on 6 episode television series I think this story was perhaps on too big a scale to successfully work in such a format and thus in places the pacing does seem rather off.And then the finale (Which of course I won't ruin). I'll just say I assume they thought they were going to be renewed for a third season and therefore Utopia is like an enjoyable book that you read only to discover to your horror has had the final chapter ripped out.Watchable stuff but by all rights should have been better.The Good:A couple of interesting charactersUse of colour and sound is very originalOverall decent effortThe Bad:Grant is just the pits, very damaging to the showSome very mediocre charactersFinale is far too open endedThings I Learnt From This Show:A person will hold a grudge should you remove their eye with a spoon

PeaceGuard A virus which only lets 5% of people be fertile leads to either the annihilation of the human race or the dystopian reality of 'Handmaid's Tale'. For some moronic reason they're talking about stabilizing world's population at 500 million people, but either it's not hereditary and it will only work for one generation or it is hereditary and the population will be decreasing permanently. Sustaining billions of humans also isn't a problem even if oil and similar sources run out, because it's not a problem to run the whole energy supply with the use of renewables. It's just about corpo-political will. Uruguay did switch to 95% of clean energy in 9 years, for example. Of course the overpopulation will become a problem one day, but there's no reason not to simply limit the number of children you can have. China did it and survived. It even grew to economic superpower in the same time. It can be decided that you can only have a single child and you can randomly select people who can have more. Or it can be based on some kind of IQ score, for example, with the lower half being able to have 1 child, so that no one would be excluded from the possibility to have offspring, and the higher half being able to have two children and the smartest ones maybe 3 or 4. 1/3 or more of the people will not want to have any children either way, the same as it is now. Developed countries have stable fertility rates or even negative. Developing countries have positive ones, the same as developed ones once did, but will have stable ones once their living standard goes up.This show is simply trying to sell an idea which is completely incredible. It would be easier to watch if the show would state that some insane group of radical imbeciles fell for it, but it is also suggesting some smart people did, which is just idiotic.Why would a man who changes sides and decides to oppose his fellow madmen, put a virus he's now against into his daughter? It also does not make any sense.A guy whose eye is gauged out and father killed approves people who did it, even though their killing spree methods are a separate thing from their ideology.A girl who wants to kill Mr Rabbit changes her mind, because her father is alive. Like these two are in any way linked. She can track him down with a phone, but whatever, not that anything makes sense in this series.The characters can't simply e-mail the info they have to everyone to alert people, even at the very start of the story. It's not 19th century where it was hard to pass an info. Their enemy is supposedly a limited number of folks without many high figures (one minister?), but they're somehow able to know everything and silence everything. No one is interested in their killing sprees. In general there's some kind of problem with information transfer in this series. In most cases no one passes the crucial information to others or does it late enough for it to be a problem. It's like watching the new Prison Break, both with senseless, half-baked stories.The visual effects are one of the worst I've seen, the credibility of events is awful, the acting is mediocre. It's hard to believe it's a 2013 show, maybe if it would be created in the long gone past, it could be at least a little more credible.And a typical rubbish ending with history coming full circle and a rebirth of the evil/danger.One of the biggest disappointments in terms of average rating vs real quality. I'm only giving it a 6 for reflection inducing value, because most of its aspects deserve less. Maybe impressive for naive people, but cheap for smart ones. If you're an intellectual who enjoys elaborate psychological drama/crime, you won't be satisfied with this title. If you just want a cheap conspiracy theory with Illuminati, evil politicians, scientists, big pharma and vaccines and you have nothing against mediocre execution of the show, then you might enjoy it. As one the characters states at the end of the show - "Well, there are bad people in this world. People, who need to control others." If you're the type of person who likes to see it this way as a part of conspiracy, that's a show for you.

jlfittro I agree with other reviews, that the population politics in this series should be discredited. What a wasted opportunity, or perhaps intentional, to wage a real conversation instead of the simplistic eugenics tale. Unfortunately this series mirrors popular misconceptions, and continues the propaganda. It looks great, the characters are interesting, it can be mesmerizing. It is also nauseatingly violent. I confess to watching in entirety, and feeling sick and disgusted. But I couldn't look away. Reminded me of many other movies and shows, Pulp Fiction, Hannibal, Terminator. And Clockwork Orange, but where it was ultimately anti violence, this show celebrates it, tenderizes us so we become accustomed to it. Mesmerizing crap. Just my opinion.

Dalinouh sorry about my English.. When Arby starts asking this, the audience and our heroes have no idea who Jessica Hyde is :D .. can't enough of this show and we looking for season 3 in another way.. Why this show not more widely known and watched? Is it poorly promoted? Is it the violence and the mature adult content making the viewing public pass it by and don't watch? this is great show everyone should to watch Utopia. and decide with any side will stand in near future.*spoiler alert*The series tells the story about group of people who love graphic novel called utopia and agree to interview each one of them to claim that he owns the second part of the story that not been published. they find themselves in a hall of hell and spiral not out of them.. they discover that the story is true and that there is an organization called themselves the "network" seeks to spread the virus around the world, the group trying to revealed this organization and stop the plot.