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Amazon’s ‘Utopia’ fires up timely, ‘surreal’ take on viral epidemic

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on Amazon Prime, was filmed last fall — but one of its storylines concerns a viral epidemic that’s killing people, mostly school kids, across the US.Sound familiar?“It’s just another layer of surreal on top of a very surreal year for everyone,” says “Utopia” co-star Dan Byrd, referring to the pandemic. “It’s interesting to see these events take hold in contemporary society in real-time after experiencing them in a show we filmed last year.“I’m not privvy to internal conversations that are happening [at Amazon],” he says, “but my outlook is that ‘Utopia’ is very much escapist entertainment that takes place on a pulpy comic-book frequency — and in no way is informed by the events of 2020.”That may be, but the nine-episode series, originally.

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