There’s a comment she makes about having seen a genocide firsthand, and so we can infer that Millner believes the Network is an anti-fascist organization, that its genocide will be egalitarian. Later, when he shows off a basic design for the Janus virus, she emphasizes that it must kill at random, that no one race or group of people be intentionally kept safe. Miller, already with the Network, sees a kindred spirit in Carvel. When Millner and Carvel meet at a Bilderberger style gathering of leaders and minds, the scientist is debating the usefulness of malaria as a means to regulate the human population. Carvel then decapitates the rabbit in front of Petrie with a butcher knife which leads to Petrie mimicking this when his mother brings a pet bunny into the home. At one point, he presents Petrie with a rabbit, after feeding the youth drug-laced chocolate covered raisins. He claims to be trying to reverse it later when discovered, but nothing we’ve seen leads us to believe that claim is valid. What she doesn’t know is that Carvel is experimenting with the biochemical nature of violence and has accidentally turned his son into this thing. His wife is worried about their son, Petrie who is showing sociopathic signs even as a toddler. Rabbit branding.Ĭarvel is already crossing dark ethical lines even before he meets Millner. Millner (played by Rose Leslie) has her motivations explained, and we even get The Assistant complete with the first reveal of his Mr. We get to see young Arby/Petrie and Jessica. This is because the entire episode is set in the 1970s and follows Philip Carvel and his involvement with the Network. The first thing you notice is the drastically different 4:3 aspect ratio to resemble old tube televisions. So, as we look back at Series 2, we do so with the notion that a different yet hopefully will be tonally similar show will be coming in the new future.ĭennis Kelly decided to open Utopia Series 2 with a jolt. She became friends with Dennis Kelly and said she’ll seek his input on the new version of Utopia, release date to be determined but like sometime in 2019. Flynn has been very public in expressing her love of the original, particularly for its strangeness. However, in April 2017 it was announced that Amazon was going to work to develop Utopia with Gillian Flynn as showrunner. For some years David Fincher and Gillian Flynn have been working to bring Utopia to the United States but a deal with HBO fell through, and it appeared the prospects of a return were dead. In the time since my review of Series 1, big Utopia news has dropped. When we last left the world of Utopia, we were merely looking backward at a short-lived British television that deserves a second glance by viewers.
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