Gillian Flynn’s ‘Utopia’ Brings All Too Familiar Sheen to a Conspiracy Thriller: TV Review

,” the conspiracy theorists are the ones living in reality. Everyone else just trying to go about their lives is just biding their time before the cataclysmic end. ’s “Utopia” makes it plainer still. After a disturbing comic called “Dystopia” appeared to anticipate several devastating pandemics, from SARS to Ebola and back again, a sequel called “Utopia” surfaces with the promise of predicting the catastrophic future, sparking an urgent hunt as a dangerous new flu spreads across the country.

The season consists of eight energetic, propulsive episodes , each unfolding like a chapter of an addictive crime novel. Unlike many streaming dramas given as many minutes as they like to tell their plodding story, “Utopia” flies right by. But for a show that’s essentially a series of puzzle boxes, its mysteries are all too easy to solve. For every genuine surprise, there are five more “twists” that were telegraphed from five miles away.

Still, the crowded, overlapping narratives still give the actors some room to play. Cusack, for one, has fun subverting his everyday nice guy vibes for Dr. Christie’s benevolent billionaire act, even if that storyline is the series’ weakest. Christopher Denham takes a purposefully flat character and finds every inch of humanity lurking therein. As the enigmatic Jessica Hyde, Lane tears into her character’s laser-focused mission with ferocious precision.

In that respect, it’s also hard not to imagine what “Utopia” might have looked like if Flynn got to work again with “Gone Girl” director David Fincher, as was originally the plan for the series. Together, Flynn’s acidic writing and Fincher’s chilly direction have proved a potent blend that could have made this version of “Utopia” more uniquely unsettling. So while ably directed in the end by Susanna Fogel, J.D.

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