Five things to watch this weekend
A disappointing US version of a Brit series; hillbillies and stoners to fill your weekend
Utopia — Amazon Prime Video
Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn adapts the distinctive and unsettling 2013 dystopian British series for the US market. The results are predictably less smart, on-the-nose and in an unforeseen twist of fate, horribly mistimed. John Cusack stars in the twisty tale of a group of comic-book geeks who discover that the plot of a graphic novel is in fact a reality. The problem is that the story involves the uncovering of a global government conspiracy in which a deadly virus has been manufactured and deceptively spun to eliminate vast sections of the world’s population. A not very helpful idea in the middle of a global pandemic where political temperatures are running high and conspiracy nutters are running wild, threatening the lives of science-guided policies...
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