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Utopia (Amazon Prime)

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  • #122
    Jafin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Jafin


    AMKC wrote: »
    Don't watch it on Prime then. Watch it elsewhere and on a more useable site too. If Amazon can not design a user friendly site and interface then it's there loss not your's

    I mean I'm not saying it's unuseable. I'm paying for Prime on Amazon anyway so I may as well use it. Prime has a lot of stuff Netflix doesn't and vice versa. Netflix is just far more user friendly for finding stuff.


  • #123
    tusk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,922 ✭✭✭tusk


    has anyone watched it?

    Is it any good?

    The old one was great.


  • #124
    Jafin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Jafin


    tusk wrote: »
    has anyone watched it?

    Is it any good?

    The old one was great.

    I watched the new one first and then the original after. The new one is enjoyable but the original is definitely better. There are some huge divergences in the plot and how the season plays out. For example (very slight spoiler ahead)
    in the new one Utopia is an unpublished sequel to a graphic novel called Dystopia, and Jessica Hyde was a character in the Dystopia graphic novel, whereas in the original she was not part of the Utopia graphic novel at all.

    I'd definitely say give it a watch, but do so with the expectation that you're going into a show that is similar in name and the very basics of the plot only.


  • #125
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,160 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    That's useful. Better off/more relevant, in the Utopia [Amazon Prime] thread though:
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058045786


  • #126
    Wrongway1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,619 ✭✭✭Wrongway1985


    Added to Prime today haha after all the whingin.


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  • #127
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,084 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Wrongway1985 wrote: »
    Added to Prime today haha after all the whingin.
    Leading me to believe it was just stupidity on Amazon's side that it wasn't there in the first place...


  • #128
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,611 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    OP's been very quiet since Utopia mysteriously appeared on Prime.

    Nothing to say here OP?


  • #129
    JJayoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    magentur wrote: »
    Semantics. Let me rephrase. Who decided that this show was not to be available in Ireland?

    The voices in your head


  • #130
    440Hertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭440Hertz


    They just forgot Ireland existed for a few days, a common issue with Amazon.


  • #131
    magentur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭magentur


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    Jim Corr's tweeting about it now. Mother of God!
    MrStuffins wrote: »
    OP's been very quiet since Utopia mysteriously appeared on Prime.

    Nothing to say here OP?

    Thanks Jim :)


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  • #132
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,611 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    magentur wrote: »
    Thanks Jim :)

    So what's your reaction now? You claimed it to be banned, but it's quite clearly available.

    Surely you can now admit that at best you jumped the gun and were wrong, or you were talking rubbish and were wrong?


  • #133
    ItsHoggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭ItsHoggie


    The series wasn’t available for me all the time but it’s up now on the app, apparently it was on PC all the time but not just the apps. This isn’t the first series/movie on Prime this has happened with either.


  • #134
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,160 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    Mods - what's the story with the merging of the threads? Ok, there may be a very tenuous link with the name and a conspiracy, but otherwise it's one thread about content, and the other about technical issues.


  • #135
    yabadabado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,625 ✭✭✭✭yabadabado


    tusk wrote: »
    has anyone watched it?

    Is it any good?

    The old one was great.

    I watched it,its ok .
    Its not a patch on the original but I never expected it to be.


  • #136
    cdgalwegian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,160 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    Lots of spoilers here, with Gillian Flynn talking about comparisons to the C4 original, and about season 2.

    https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2020-09-25/utopia-ending-explained-season-1-amazon/

    Also, "stamp of approval" from Stephen King:

    https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/utopia-amazon-stephen-king-approval/


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