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Yes I know its a conspiracy drama fleshed out with a smattering of surrealism and an excellent soundtrack but I kinda liked it. It was a bit of a throwback to when CH4 used to churn out this kind of stuff on a regular basis back in the 80s & early 90s before they dropped a bollock. The cast is pretty good with the chilly hitman played by Neil Maskell(Kill List)a standout. Bravo!
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Oh quite agree, terrific, lots of very black humour, good performances, suitably surreal and some of the best cinematography I've seen anywhere for a long time.


Still not sure who the bad guys were, even the woman off Bott on the Landscape who turned out to be the rabbit, bad guy or good guy?

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I dunno.


I think the main problem was that it relied on style (beautifully shot, good writing and black humour) over substance, on tired plot devices (manuscript of hidden truth, bad people, nefarious organisation with undefined and unjustfied powers) over internal consistency and well thought out setting.


Billy the Fish always used to cover up impossible story shifts and resolutions by having the manager neck whiskly until it made sense, and essentially that's how Utopia covered up its inadequacies, by being surreal.


That said, I still enjoyed it even if it it rarely made sense or maintained any plausability even within its own loosely constructed world. It was stylish, and funny and occasionally a little disturbing.


The main theme could have been pursued a little more seriously because it actually IS an interesting question to pose, how do we solve the terrible future that's coming?


But then there has been plenty of sci-fi written that explores that much better I suppose.

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