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Oftentimes you’ll hear someone say that in film or TV, art imitates life. In the case of “Utopia,” it feels like art predicted life. The fictional series is based on a UK series of the same name that came out in 2013. It was adapted for US audiences by Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”) and wrapped filming 4 months before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
The show focuses on a group of comic book fans/conspiracy theorists (Desmin Borges, Jessica Rothe, Dan Byrd, Ashleigh LaThrop and Javon “Wanna” Walton) who find themselves immersed in the middle of the very conspiracy they believe in.
After a dark and disturbing comic book called “Dystopia” appeared to anticipate several devastating pandemics, from SARS to Ebola, a sequel called “Utopia” surfaces with the promise of predicting a catastrophic future pandemic. The group sets out to find “Utopia” and through a series of violent events, eventually they uncover a global conspiracy and try to stop it.