While the central premise of the series is a good one and deals with one of the central problems facing humanity today, what might have been a brilliant undertaking is spoiled by several factors. Firstly, the insertion of paranoid conspiracy nonsense which detracts from the main plot line.Secondly massive plot holes, including: improbable characters; a vast number of murders (many public) to which the police appear to be oblivious; a supposedly international conspiracy which only involves British people; and meaningless attempts to weave in real assassinations to the story, which have no relevance and have no historical basis. Thirdly, the extreme and graphic violence, which it seems, does not bother any of the reviewers. Also extremely disturbing is the number of children murdered throughout the series, which again, has not drawn any comments. This is what is so wrong with out society today; we are so inured to violence that we are prepared to accept any amount of it, however graphic and distasteful, in the name of entertainment. Yes it is well made, well acted and visually good, but that is not enough in my view, to overcome some of the truly vile aspects of this series. Handled intelligently it could have been so much more. A great disappointment.

UTOPIA. Thrilling. Suspenseful. Unsettling. Tense.Probably the best show ever made (and I've watched lots of great tv shows such as Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire etc.) Not only is it stunning visually, but thought provoking too. It's extremely dark, violent, but has some comedic moments as well. The sountrack is so weird yet amazing and fits perfectly with the show. It's been over a year since I've watched Utopia but there's not a day that goes by when I don't think about it. It hurts me knowing that people have not experienced this masterpiece. The show lasted only 2 seasons after being cancelled and although it ended on a cliffhanger, most of the show's story and character arcs were wrapped up which is fine. With only 6 episodes in each season, there's no filler and the plot always keeps moving forward.If I could recommend one show, it would be UTOPIA.

A virus which only lets 5% of people be fertile leads to either the annihilation of the human race or the dystopian reality of 'Handmaid's Tale'. For some moronic reason they're talking about stabilizing world's population at 500 million people, but either it's not hereditary and it will only work for one generation or it is hereditary and the population will be decreasing permanently. Sustaining billions of humans also isn't a problem even if oil and similar sources run out, because it's not a problem to run the whole energy supply with the use of renewables. It's just about corpo-political will. Uruguay did switch to 95% of clean energy in 9 years, for example. Of course the overpopulation will become a problem one day, but there's no reason not to simply limit the number of children you can have. China did it and survived. It even grew to economic superpower in the same time. It can be decided that you can only have a single child and you can randomly select people who can have more. Or it can be based on some kind of IQ score, for example, with the lower half being able to have 1 child, so that no one would be excluded from the possibility to have offspring, and the higher half being able to have two children and the smartest ones maybe 3 or 4. 1/3 or more of the people will not want to have any children either way, the same as it is now. Developed countries have stable fertility rates or even negative. Developing countries have positive ones, the same as developed ones once did, but will have stable ones once their living standard goes up.This show is simply trying to sell an idea which is completely incredible. It would be easier to watch if the show would state that some insane group of radical imbeciles fell for it, but it is also suggesting some smart people did, which is just idiotic.Why would a man who changes sides and decides to oppose his fellow madmen, put a virus he's now against into his daughter? It also does not make any sense.A guy whose eye is gauged out and father killed approves people who did it, even though their killing spree methods are a separate thing from their ideology.A girl who wants to kill Mr Rabbit changes her mind, because her father is alive. Like these two are in any way linked. She can track him down with a phone, but whatever, not that anything makes sense in this series.The characters can't simply e-mail the info they have to everyone to alert people, even at the very start of the story. It's not 19th century where it was hard to pass an info. Their enemy is supposedly a limited number of folks without many high figures (one minister?), but they're somehow able to know everything and silence everything. No one is interested in their killing sprees. In general there's some kind of problem with information transfer in this series. In most cases no one passes the crucial information to others or does it late enough for it to be a problem. It's like watching the new Prison Break, both with senseless, half-baked stories.The visual effects are one of the worst I've seen, the credibility of events is awful, the acting is mediocre. It's hard to believe it's a 2013 show, maybe if it would be created in the long gone past, it could be at least a little more credible.And a typical rubbish ending with history coming full circle and a rebirth of the evil/danger.One of the biggest disappointments in terms of average rating vs real quality. I'm only giving it a 6 for reflection inducing value, because most of its aspects deserve less. Maybe impressive for naive people, but cheap for smart ones. If you're an intellectual who enjoys elaborate psychological drama/crime, you won't be satisfied with this title. If you just want a cheap conspiracy theory with Illuminati, evil politicians, scientists, big pharma and vaccines and you have nothing against mediocre execution of the show, then you might enjoy it. As one the characters states at the end of the show - "Well, there are bad people in this world. People, who need to control others." If you're the type of person who likes to see it this way as a part of conspiracy, that's a show for you.

Firstly the two seasons are vastly contradictory. The first one creates a sense of rage and sets up the sides namely the protagonist and a antagonist, but the beauty here is in the second season we are shown the other side the antagonists and protagonists are switched over.The idea for this series is superbly mind boggling and the characters created are with such precision and finesse. From a pure philosophical point the question asked in this series is extremely essential and vital to human survival. I will not reveal any spoilers as this would ruin the experience to the watcher.