Channel 4 actually has a YouTube Channel and Utopia Episodes are
available. So are episodes of Shameless. For Americans unless you go
to the trouble of setting up a proxy that will make you look to YouTube
like you are in the UK, the episodes won't play. I think there are
already extras on the Channel 4 site. I haven't tried playing those but
they also have episodes which of course get blocked.
I mentioned Shameless since the UK version has been available for some
time via DVD on Netflix and now WI. So I suspect Utopia will be
available that way too. How soon I don't know. I'm figuring the
commentary though would say "we had Stephen Rea for one day so we shot
everything he does in the series that day." So I would be surprised if
you ever see him outside that room. And of course of most of America to
understand a Liverpool accent when they even have trouble with high
British would also keep it out of the mainstream ("it's the baytols").
Of course the US is beginning to look like episodes of Utopia or worse.
On 02/13/2013 02:22 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
> I just wanted to thank you again for recommending this
> series. I've just watched episode 5 of 6, and it just
> keeps getting better and better and better.
>
> The plotting is as dark as ever, but what makes it a
> real shame that Americans will never see this series
> are the performances. Stephen Rea and James Fox are
> their normal creepy selves as uber-villains. And
> Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Alexandra Roach, Nathan Stewart-
> Jarrett, Oliver Woollford, and Adeel Akhtar are great
> as the unwilling heroes on the run. But the real
> standout is Neil Maskell as Arby. He's turned into
> the most interesting character of the series.
>
> This whole series is so complex and well-done that I
> can already tell that I'm going to have to watch it
> again in a marathon session to really "get" it, with-
> out the horrible wait from week to week for the next
> episode. I'll almost certainly order the DVD set,
> so that I can see all the extras and making-ofs.
>
> If Bhairitu and I are correct, it'll never be shown
> in the US (and those without players that have been
> hacked to be region-free won't be able to see the
> DVDs), because most wouldn't be able to follow
> the accents, much less the arcane plotting. They'll
> probably remake it instead, starring American actors
> not smart enough to *read* a comic book, much less
> understand that one might hold the secrets to a
> worldwide conspiracy.
>
> Small detail question you might have read the answer
> to in UK papers, if you've been following this. WHERE
> on Earth is the office with the incredible carved panel-
> ing that the villains meet in? I want one. :-)
>
> The Wikipedia page on the series contains a hint that
> it might have been filmed at a place called Scarisbrick
> Hall.
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote:
>> No, it's nothing pleasant but it is a UK TV show well worth
>> checking out.
>>
>> Suppose your favourite comic book turned out to be true? OK if it
>> was a Disney production but Utopia is a dark tale of conspiracy,
>> madness, sinister genetic experiments and finally, forced
>> incarceration in a mental hospital. Suppose you acquired the next
>> installment and someone didn't want you to read it. Someone who
>> would stop at nothing?
>>
>> http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/utopia/23988/first-full-trailer-for-channel-4-comic-book-drama-utopia
>>
>> Rather uncompromisingly violent but lots of fun if you've a
>> strong stomach for that sort of thing.
>>
>> Buck rating: Don't even think about it.
>>
