#Utopia series series

But will all the twists and conspiracies continue?

If that’s your jam, then Utopia is probably your show. The result: the same comically bloody fare that’s become all the rage in streaming lately- Hunters, The Boys, Umbrella Academy-vividly-colored rated-R adaptations, featuring teams of people doing terrible things to supposedly terrible people.

#Utopia series series

) Amazon picked up the series in 2018 and moved forward without Fincher. Originally, HBO planned to produce the series with David Fincher attached as director (Fincher and Utopia writer Gillian Flynn had previously worked together on Gone Girl, the Academy Award-nominated adaptation of Flynn's bestselling novel. In reality, Utopia has been in production for a number of years. In short: Utopia will feel oddly prescient and perhaps itself become an object of conspiratorial obsession. And while it may do nothing to abate actual Chinese-America conspiracies, the series also shows the dangers of rushing vaccines into widespread usage (even if that too is a bit conspiratorial). Amazon’s Utopia, based on the British Channel 4 series of the same name, turns epidemiological conspiracy theory into an 8-episode binge. If, a year ago, a television series suggested that somehow the SARS virus was introduced to China by a rogue American scientist-and that covert biological warfare raged between the superpowers-we all might have shrugged it off as good fictional fun.