NP: Utopia

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 01.11.2015 um 22:27 schrieb Monte Davis:

> Gorgeous color palette, some quirky humor amid the Grand Guignol, but
> the plot depends on (1) a brain-dead global conspiracy

I thought the conspiracy part of it was an ok mixture of conspiracy 
clichés which were emphasised as such (the sinister company's central 
command room, only one person at the top, the Chinese symbol -- although 
the story behind the symbol was too over the top for my taste) and 
plausible real world conspiracy flavour (collusion of secret services, 
government and industry, even NGOs -- I especially liked the part about 
the minutes of that particular meeting in the 1970s and, of course, the 
reference to a top secret biological weapons program in the 1960s which 
reminded me of BE).

> and (2) people
> driven by abuse into improbably precise and specific psychotic
> behaviors.

Not plausible, granted. But Arby and Jessica are to some extent 
stereotypes. You are surely not watching this with plausibility as your 
main concern?


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