The conflicted reaction from critics and audiences, combined with that potentially dangerous message, may have contributed to Amazon's decision to cancel the show. Well, that was until we got some bad news. Given the scale of the production and the impact of Covid-19 on schedules across the board, we were probably looking at 2022 at the earliest for a second season. "As he revealed this, I wanted half the audience to be, 'What a villainous bastard,' and the other half to kind of lean in and go, ' guy's got a point,'" Flynn said. She pointed to a Christie line about how, in order to survive, "we have to live selflessly, and as you know, we're not that good at it". "If we keep going down this path, we're going to have a world that we might be able to live in, but it's not going to be particularly worth living in." "I wanted to explain why he was doing it: Humans are multiplying like bacteria, like a virus, and we're going to destroy the world," she said, breaking down Christie's point of view. " if you're taking your medical advice from John Cusack, something's gone horribly wrong in your life," she said. It doesn't matter if your opinion is, 'There's no such thing as gravity.' There is." " about where we are that, largely through social media newsfeeds, we've turned science and truth into something that can be opinionated – which is incorrect. "The show is ultimately about conspiracies and about what happens when fringe conspiracies gain mainstream acceptance," Flynn said. But she also hoped that the show's strange style, as well as the truly evil character presenting that position, should keep any viewers from believing it.
"I have always said that I like the things I create to create strong reactions, and I'd always much rather have people who want to talk about it – whether it's positive or negative – than give a tepid, 'I liked it,' and never think about it again."įollowing world events, Flynn said there were times when she felt "a little sick to my stomach" worrying Utopia would augment the anti-vaxxers' argument. "It is what I expected," Flynn told IndieWire about the response. Season one received mixed reviews, which is something that didn't surprise Flynn. The first season wrapped filming in October 2019, a year before it aired on Amazon. In her Vulture review, Kathryn VanArendonk calls Utopia “weirdly, upsettingly topical.” Maybe the show will find a new home in the future, when that isn’t quite so true.It seems surreal to write that the future of Utopia was up in the air due to a pandemic, but it really was.
As if that wasn’t scary enough, their realization makes them the target of the shadowy organization the Network and Mr. The show, starring John Cusack, Rainn Wilson, and Jessica Rothe, among others, followed the plot of Dennis Kelly’s 2013 series, in which a group of comic-book fans discover that a graphic novel, and its unpublished sequel, have correctly predicted real-life catastrophes and epidemics, including a viral pandemic currently threatening the planet. The show premiered on the service on September 25. Either way, according to Deadline, the streaming platform has canceled the series, adapted by Gone Girl author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn from the 2013 British series of the same name, after one season. That, or everyone just had a lot going on this fall. Between the dark conspiracy theories, violence, global pandemic, and impending apocalypse, it would seem Amazon Prime Video’s Utopia was the wrong show at the exact wrong moment.
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