Utopia 2013 season 112/29/2023 Flu epidemicĮpisode 2 then introduces us to a rather eager scientist - Michael Stearns, ironically played by Rainn Wilson. She tells the group to dye their hair and change. On the news, they hear about the massacre at the hotel and Jessica tells them that Arby and Rod did it. Ian is freaking out about the situation and wants to call the cops but Sam tells him if it is real, they are in danger. Episode 2 quickly goes into the highly violent, no-mercy approach - it’s a serious world. Arby and his sidekick Rod enters Wilson’s home and they kill Wilson’s family. Wilson is not trusting of the situation and reveals his paranoid side. However, they are texting Jessica Hyde - they give away the address. Unaware, Sam and the group believe they are texting Olivia about Utopia. With the murders at the hotel, there is a commotion. This is a PR stunt gone wrong as Kevin buckles under pressure from the questioning. Kevin states that flu doesn’t travel through meat she presses him and he walks off. The interviewer claims his meat has made children sick and some have died. Flu doesn’t travel through meatĭr Kevin Christie does a TV interview about his company’s lab-grown meat. The friends have an alcoholic toast to “Saving the f*cking world”. Ian reveals he has a photo of one of the pages from Utopia - Becky sees a drop of rain in the image and realises it is a new virus. He’s very prepared in this bunker with loads of information to prepare for serious times. The group of friends head to Wilson’s house excitedly and check out his bunker. Episode 2 opens showing how on-the-spot Jessica is, giving the viewers an idea of who the other characters are dealing with. She sees a photo of Grant and takes a quick photo. She then enters the security room and pretends to be a hurt girlfriend who needs to see footage from 15 minutes previous. ![]() All of the video extras are presented in 1080i, just like the show itself.Jessica Hyde rummages through the hotel room. The second platter plays host to a trio of short Making of… vignettes – The World of Utopia (10-mins), Fly on the Wall – With Marc Munden (9-mins) and Analysis of a Stunt Scene (12-mins) – as well as seven deleted scenes (18-mins). There’s only one feature on the first disc - a commentary for the first episode featuring writer Dennis Kelly, producer Rebekah Wray-Rogers and director Marc Munden – but it provides plenty of behind-the-scenes info and anecdotes. ![]() The six episodes are joined by a fairly modest, but enjoyable, batch of extras on this Blu-ray release. While it’s got a reasonably wide front-end and handles dialogue superbly, this is a show that’s simply crying out for something more involving and would really have benefit for a lossless 5.1 mix. All we get is a DTS-HD MA presentation of the same 2.0 Surround mix that accompanied the show on TV. And any issues regarding digital smoothing and black crush in the image appear to be entirely source-related due to the massive amount of colour grading done in post-production.Ĭonsidering the Utopia’s fairly epic narrative and rather cinematic 2.40:1 visuals, it’s a shame to discover that the audio on this Blu-ray is so limited. Why are people connected to an unpublished graphic novel called The Utopia Experiment being killed? Where is Jessica Hyde? And what does any of this have to do with the government stockpiling drugs due to a potential outbreak of Russian flu? These are just some of the many questions at the heart of this cracking Channel 4 conspiracy thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat throughout its six episodes.ĤDVD’s two-disc set boasts beautifully rendered AVC 2.40:1 1080i encodes of the six episodes that really go to town with the show's distinctive and striking colour-saturated cinematography. Channel 4's stylish thriller is seventh heaven for conspiracy fans
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