Here’s what we can tell you: The Office‘s Rainn Wilson is a virologist who, once upon a time, discovered a bat-based flu strain in Peru, and is bewildered to see something remarkably similar start showing up in American elementary schools. If you were to print out all of this Amazon show’s per-episode spoiler breakdowns - those constrictive-to-a-fault lists sent to critics that dictate what you can or can’t talk about in a review - you could probably paper one of Jeff Bezos’ mansions several times over. So, for that matter, is the assassin duo. Once the manuscript falls into the hands of one of the group’s own, Jessica is hot on their trail. The book may have clues as to where her dad is. Like those clues, she’s also real - a feral, kill-or-be-killed fighter played by Sasha Lane ( American Honey) who, yes, is in search of Utopia as well. 'Utopia' Creator Gillian Flynn Talks Feral Girls, Pandemics, and Why Thrillers Deserve Their DueĪnd Jessica Hyde? That’s the name of the little girl in the comic. Worst-case scenario, they each get a brief look at this coveted item and meet each other for the first time in person. They agree to all meet in the Windy City and pool their resources to purchase Utopia. A chance to bid on this rarity is set up during a convention in Chicago, which attracts the attention of a five-person, online-forum group devoted to Dystopia: Samantha (Jessica Rothe), a eco-activist groundskeeper Ian (Dan Byrd), a nerdy office worker Becky (Ashleigh LaThrop), a twentysomething student who flirts with Ian a lot a conspiracy theorist named Wilson Wilson ( You’re the Worst‘s Desmin Borges) and Grant (Javon Walton), who, unbeknownst to the group, is only 13 years old. When the manuscript for this single-issue sequel shows up in some rando’s cluttered garage, however, the comic community goes crazy. Such nonsense was dismissed as the crazy ramblings of crackpots - as was the unsubstantiated rumor that there was an unseen, unpublished coda to the series titled Utopia. And if you looked closely at the artwork, some die-hards suggested, you could find clues and symbols that somehow predicted a host of pandemics, from Ebola to SARS. The girl escaped the father was did not, and was forced to create horrible biological agents for his kidnapper. It told the story of a young heroine and her scientist father, held captive by a humanoid bunny named Mr. In the beginning, there was merely Dystopia: a wild, phantasmagoric comic that was birthed from the clearly disturbed mind of a mysterious creator. We probably don’t need to tell you that this show happens to be hitting the airwaves at an odd moment in our nation’s history in a smart display of cover-our-ass-itude, Amazon has included a disclaimer that notes the show is “not based on an actual pandemic or related events.” Good to know. It’s a work of fiction, based off of a cult British TV series created by The Third Day‘s Dennis Kelly back in 2013 (he’s an executive producer on the American version as well), and an on/off again labor of love for novelist-turned-screenwriter-turned-showrunner Gillian Flynn, for almost as long. Utopia, Amazon’s eight-episode sci-fi thriller that hits the streaming service today, imagines a fanciful world in which superfans discover a lost postscript to a popular comic that may or may not be the key to stopping Armageddon. As for the one medical professional who thinks he knows what’s actually going on? Someone seems to be attempting either to conscript him, discredit him - or possibly even something worse.īut enough about the news. You sense there’s another agenda going on, however… especially in regards to the brainwashed, loyal minions doing their bidding. Meanwhile, protesters are storming the streets and demanding answers, while a rich, morally suspect authority figure - and his equally dubious adult son - promise a miracle vaccine any minute now. A group of folks who’ve been chatting online for some time think there’s some bigger, deep-state conspiracy behind it all they’ve found a series of documents that they believe possess clues as to the nefarious forces behind not just this pandemic, but a host of other so-called “natural disasters” and catastrophes. A strange virus is causing fatalities throughout Middle America.
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