If the comic book nerds in "Utopia" can just decipher the comic and stop Harvest, the virus can be beaten back, and people will stop dying. And yet, if those forces are manipulating events, it means that someone, somewhere, knows what they're doing. It's scary to think that powerful, evil, hidden forces are manipulating events. This is why conspiracy theories are comforting. Even if we don't know exactly what Harvest wants, we at least know it wants something. In contrast, the deaths in "Utopia" have some purpose. There was no master plan just laziness, partisan animosity, and weaponized incompetence. ![]() More broadly, Trump seems to have thought the virus would hurt his re-election chances, and so decided to hope it would just go away. Some officials appear to have argued that the virus would just hurt blue states, and so should be ignored. The Trump administration has failed to contain the virus for lots of reasons and for no reason. Just as disheartening as the sheer scale of our real-life catastrophe is its pointlessness. Public health messaging is led by experts. After dozens of deaths in the series, officials declare a full-blown national emergency, which includes sweeping efforts to hold corporate bad actors responsible and decisive quarantine measures. But it's notably not nearly as ineffectual and inadequate as our own government's response has been to the coronavirus. The government response to the disease in "Utopia" is ineffectual and inadequate. The organization wants to leverage the response to cause greater chaos, or seize power, or both. The organization has a complicated scheme which involves releasing a virus to kill large numbers of children at disparate locations around the country. And yet, in a lot of ways, the rolling apocalypse in this alternate, ugly world makes more sense, and is therefore less disturbing, than our own ongoing Armageddon.Īt least through the seven of eight episodes available for reviewers, the Harvest's exact plans and goals are obscure. The world it presents is extremely dystopic, cruel and unrelenting. "Utopia," the show, then, is ironically named. She even emotionally and physically abuses children. ![]() She murders and tortures with no compunction, and often for no reason. Jessica Hyde, who is the main emotional focus of the show, is deeply damaged and erratically violent. But "Utopia" also has a "Game of Thrones" willingness to maim and murder its leads on a whim. Minor characters are assassinated with gleeful abandon, as you'd expect. ![]() The series starts out with a darkly humorous tone, but it quickly turns nasty and violent.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |