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Utopia season 21/29/2024 ![]() Every one of episode three’s meticulously designed scenes contained something tying it to the series’ trademark yellow and blue. What it is looking is beautifully manicured. Will the Network ever let him skip off into the sunset with his ready-made family? It’s not looking hopeful. Series two Arby is doing it all for love, double-crossing the Manuscript Gang to get back to his blissful suburban holiday as a step-dad plumber. The decision to show the corpses Arby left behind but not the act itself was perhaps aimed at keeping our fondness for his character intact. I can’t have been the only one shrugging when that particular throat was cut. Need a riddle solved? Cue some frantic tapping by a spotty youth with more keyboards than Rick Wakeman and hey presto! There’s your answer. Obnoxious young members of hacking collectives are the Sonic Screwdriver workaround of cyber thrillers. Ian and Becky’s romance aside (I moaned enough about that emotional cul de sac in series one to start again here), the episode’s one weak link was the gang’s visit to the rent-a-hacker teen. Be honest though, who hasn’t watched a viral cat video and been struck by the certain realisation that humanity is doomed? ![]() Which precise part of the shark-cat-Roomba-duckling combo tipped Carvel off that Janus was about to be deployed we don’t know. If only Carvel could remember how to do anything other than shuffle around like Gandalf with a hangover, they might actually get somewhere.Ĭarvel did speak enough English this week to prophesy imminent death at Grant after watching some telly. Wilson Wilson is now sitting uncomfortably in Arby’s former seat, while Arby – right down to stealing some of her lines – is the gang’s new Jessica Hyde (or at least pretending to be until he can trade them all in for Tess and little Amanda).Ĭrucially, Team Manuscript now includes Philip Carvel, who’s the key to Becky’s disease, and likely the only person who knows what adjustment he made to Janus before it goes on global release. ![]() The difference this time around is the change in player positions. With the gang back on the run, rippling with suspicion, and batting away the swarm of question marks flying around their heads, this was Utopia as we know and love it. Never one to rush, even with a gun pointed at his head or a victim spurting like Monty Python’s Black Knight all over his crime scene, he ushered us nastily in to an episode that felt closer to series one than the previous instalment. Lee’s soft-spoken, genial approach to villainy is pure Utopia comical, nasty and unsettling. The sharp-suited psycho opened the episode by committing the most unfazed, unflappable TV murder since Lorne Malvo left our screens. Some mysteries, we suppose, need to be saved for a potential third series – if, that is, Lee survives for that long on Arby’s shit list. ![]() Of the many riddles we’ve been set by Utopia’s Sphinx-like second series, one is yet to be asked: what’s Lee’s story? Episode three belonged to Paul Ready’s hit man in the acid yellow suit, but unlike Arby and Jessica, we still don’t know the first thing about his origins.
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