“Utopia” has some nifty Chicago touches - such as the gargoyles atop the Harold Washington Library unlocking a key clue in Episode 3.
Rabbit is real - that it’s all real, and the pages of “Utopia” could hold the secret to saving the world from impending doom. They’re united in the belief that “Dystopia” exists beyond the pages of a comic book, that the book’s antihero Jessica Hyde is real, that the villainous Mr. Our unlikely heroes: nerdy insurance salesman Ian (Dan Byrd), activist-minded Sam (Jessica Rothe), the good-natured but secret-harboring Becky (Ashleigh LaThrop), the disaster prepper, bunker-dwelling Wilson (Desmin Borges) and Grant (Javon Walton), who has passed himself off as a wealthy playboy in their chat rooms but is, in fact, a 10-year-old boy.
UTOPIA SERIES SERIES
The series kicks off with a group of chatroom geek friends who have never met in person gathering at a Comic-Con-type convention in Chicago in pursuit of the lone copy of the graphic novel “Utopia,” the rumored sequel to “Dystopia,” which fringe groups believe actually predicted real-world epidemics such as Ebola and SARS. Just as Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl,” “Sharp Objects”) did with the British series “Widows,” moving the action to Chicago for one of the best films of the last decade, she transports “Utopia” from Great Britain to Chicago, keeping many of the main storylines intact while adding some twists as well as a couple of new, impactful characters.
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