NP: Utopia

[Allan Balliett]

I can vouch for it. It's really a grabber on all levels. I'm betting the
best vibe from it that i've gotten from any tv show sing McGoon's The
Prisoner.

You can torrent both seasons from KickAss or buy season 1 (?) from Amazon
DVD

-Allan in WV, where in this house we've quit taking baths and showers

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Black Mirror is on Netflix...going to look up Utopia...suggestions? Sounds
> great...
>
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>
> On Oct 31, 2015, at 5:00 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
> wrote:
>
> >> Cristobel's bouncy, cooing soundtrack is ESSENTIAL
> >> to the paranoid tone.
> >
> > Its perfect. And hard to get out of one's head:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdS_VdblFtk
> >
> >> That s2 pilot
> >> was ultra-harrowing...
> >
> > ...and finally explained what the political murders of Mino Pecorelli in
> Rome and Airey Neave in London had to do with the Three Mile Island
> accident and Labour's failure to win the vote of no confidence in the
> British Parliament by one vote which eventually lead to Margaret Thatcher
> becoming Prime Minister (all these historical events took place from March
> 20 to March 30, 1979). Kute.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine_Pecorelli
> >
> > (The first paragraph makes perfectly clear why Pecorelli's death is a
> staple of conspiracy lore.)
> >
> > I quite like this take on Utopia which I just stumbled upon:
> >
> > "So, with its unique and heady mixture of black humour and existential
> impotence could Utopia be the emblematic TV drama of the decade? Quite
> possibly. We live in the age of algorithm-driven consumerism, of capitalist
> realism, of state surveillance that's no longer hidden but seems almost
> entirely accepted anyway. We live in a world which has just reacted to an
> unprecedented crisis of capitalism by destroying essential public services
> in order to restore almost exactly the same system that caused the
> collapse. We live at a time when our knowledge of the extent to which our
> institutions are dysfunctional and corrupt is matched only by our
> disinclination to challenge them. And, as this series seems to be saying,
> the scariest thing is, that's by no means the worst of it. Utopia indeed."
> >
> > http://thequietus.com/articles/15736-utopia-tv-preview
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