Utopia on Amazon Prime

dooderooni

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It's very different from the excellent Channel 4 original.
Having watched the first 4, exposition rather than storytelling seems to be the thing, hopefully it gets a bit deeper in episode 5 onwards.
 
I tried to get the other half into Utopia, she didn’t get it and said it was “****”, I’m thinking of showing her the door and telling her to swing her hook.
 
Is it worth watching Dood, I really enjoyed the original?
We'll, it's not bad, but it's not a patch on the original.
The characters are a lot less nuanced. As an example, Becky in the new one is just generally nice and not like the complex UK character. It's very American if you know what I mean. Think The Office and you'll have an inkling as to how it steers away from the concept of having light and dark in a character.
 
Is it worth watching Dood, I really enjoyed the original?
We'll, it's not bad, but it's not a patch on the original.
The characters are a lot less nuanced. As an example, Becky in the new one is just generally nice and not like the complex UK character. It's very American if you know what I mean. Think The Office and you'll have an inkling as to how it steers away from the concept of having light and dark in a character.
 
I watched the first 3 episodes last night. You are right it is not as good as the original. Seems darker than I recall, or is it just a bit more graphic. I think the current pandemic adds something to the believability of it too. You are right about character development, but that is the yanks for you, all their heroes are irreverent and 1 dimensional, british dramas seem to be more grounded and the characters developed like real people you might meet down the pub, ordinary folk placed in extraordinary circumstances. The american approach works for blockbuster action movies, not so much for more sophisticated tastes like... well the rest of the world.
 
I may give it another go. I watched 20mins and turned off last night😂. I wasn't a fan of the constant 'texting' images.

I've bailed out on stuff far too early before. I watched 5 episodes of breaking bad and gave up. Then went back 5 years later and blasted the lot.
 
I was actually Gina watch it last night then read the “ Amazon original “ was a less entertaining copy of a uk show so never bothered . I meant to search for what the uk version was as it doesn’t ring a bell
 
I was actually Gina watch it last night then read the “ Amazon original “ was a less entertaining copy of a uk show so never bothered . I meant to search for what the uk version was as it doesn’t ring a bell
The original UK Utopia is on Amazon Prime.
 
If you were contemplating watch Utopia for the first time then definitely do the UK version first otherwise you'll get so many spoilers from the US version that'll it'll ruin it.
 
Finished season 1 today, It was OK, reasonably entertaining but as Dood says watch the original first it is better.
 
I watched a clip on YouTube earlier , it didn’t make me want to watch up but various reviews are only positive so il assume it’s worth a look . Uk version anyway .
 
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