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>>212311512 (OP)
Kind of impressive how bad the American version of this is

>>212311660
That has on purpose. Remakes are made to denigrate, erase and/or destroy the original's reputation and place in history.

>>212311512 (OP)
>Globalist cabal conspires to fake a flu pandemic to push a vaccine that sterilizes a percentage of the population
what the hell? This shit could never happen

>>212311660
Did the American version come out during covid?

>>212311512 (OP)
>impossible to find for streaming
>used DVDs go for £40 and up per season
What are they scared of?

>>212311848
Yeah, late 2020

>>212311875
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to9JtBmReMI

>>212311848
>>212311848
Yes and they had to put a disclaimer at he beginning about it too

>>212311848
>>212311946
Obviously they couldn't have known since they were presumably writing/filming it before covid, but with hindsight it's extremely funny that it ends up with protesters demanding the FDA "free the vaccine" and demanding that they can all get it.

>>212311999
no fucking way the US version ends with people protesting FOR the vaccine. I refuse to believe it

>>212311512 (OP)
Don’t put the gas away yet.

Kino soundtrack.
>>212311660
I will never watch it.

>>212311709
>why yes I'm from /pol/, how could you tell?

>>212312024
John Cusack interrupts a press briefing to demand they release the vaccine as fast as possible then him and Dwight from The Office lead a crowd as they all chant "free the vaccine" it's so fucking funny dude.

>>212312024
Do you have a problem following stories?

>>212311512 (OP)
It isn't that well-written to be honest.
What makes it exceptional is the cinematography and sound design.
Legitimately every shot in this looks like a painting, very strong use of colors and shot composition.

>>212312121
You're either retarded or trolling.

>>212312166
No, sounds like the americans who made the remake do, though.

>>212311512 (OP)
With dave chappelle

>>212311512 (OP)
>shake shake
>?

>>212312356
They’re going to poison you and they’re going to have you cheering for it, is the point there. The bbc can’t show something like this because they’re propaganda first, entertainment second. They need to push the idea that when they overstep they will suffer consequences. It keeps (you) passive.

>>212312167
and sound

Global peak phosphorus is projected around 2030–2040.
Lifespan estimate natural Gas: ~50–60 years at current consumption.
Lifespan estimate OIL: ~50 years at current consumption rates

what do we do when this stuff runs out?

>>212311660
>>212311709
Because David Fincher was prepping it, they had sets and were casting when HBO refused to budget him 100 million instead of 90, so he left HBO back to Netflix where his career died. The Amazon remake was directed by Fincher's screenwriter who also wrote the book Gone Girl. She had never ran a show before.

Fincher said before he started that he was a huge fan of the UK version and that he believes in a lot of conspiracy theories. We were robbed of a world where his HBO Utopia was a huge hit seen by millions, and then the plandemic would have happened. It's one of the greatest "what ifs" ever. Instead we got Mank and Squid Game America.

>>212311848
Yes, that's why Amazon buried it. There was no press about it either even though it had an early DEI cast, even with the covid synchronicity. Had the show been pro-vax it would have been marketed heavily.

>>212312167
S2 sucks but S1 is true kino. Actresses are hot or cute unlike US remake

First I will say this is so much better than the remake. Still has issues with characteristic stupidity in loads of plot movements, but a lot less than some other shows. I find it fascinating that this and the remake are being showcased at this time in world history. A wise person might take notice and view world events with greater scrutiny at this time. Enjoyed it though. Google the Georgia Guidestones after you watch this and you might get a bit of a jolt.

>>212311512 (OP)
Season 1 is a masterpiece. Season 2 is meh and brought down the quality a little

>>212311805
two more weeks

>>212314905
Flynn being involved was one of the reasons I watched the remake. She wasn't showrunner, but she did write Sharp Objects, which like Gone Girl was an adaptation of one of her books, and I quite liked that one. Jessica Rothe was another reason I wanted to watch the show but her character died 2 episodes in, so oops.

This show is amazing for the first 50 minutes before Fiona Oshaunessy appears. She is so out of step with the production, the pace, the dialogue, the lighting, the music - like she does not get she is part of an ensemble. Just - a bad actress for this show. She might be decent elsewhere, but she's the Jar Jar Binks of this Star Wars.

Jessica Hoide

Don't put the gas away yet

they made jessica so odious in the american version i was grateful when it was cancelled she was forever imprisoned in that house

>>212320297
>introduce your main character by having her steal jewelry off of dying people and killing other people for literally no reason
>give her zero likable traits and no sort of character growth or redemption
>at the end the people she has spent every episode threatening with death hug her and call her a friend, they never bring up the fact she murdered one of their friends right in front of them
What was the plan here, writing wise?

>>212311999
utopia already was about a flu disease. it wasnt predictive, it was a warning. you were warned. they yet have to release the counteragent to eradicate all the goys.

>>212320661
she offed the blondie i guess to show a character that is tough but maybe she would be redeemable by season finale but stayed an asshole the entire series i disliked her from that moment . . . at least the nerdy guy sort of disliked her, i awaited him trying to doublecross her ... also the indian guy who was tortured joining the ppl torturing him, oh boy... lol

>>212317184
cope, mutant.
You were tested... and you didnt pass. It is over for you.

>>212312167
Probably because it was based on a graphic novel, IIRC.

>>212321572
No, it is not an adaptation, but tv-orginal.
That's why it's frustrating that it doesn't have a proper ending

>>212312096
>>212312096
>>212312096

Anyone else perfectly content with the ending we got? I have no urge to know what wacky hijinks the characters get into next, I like that it ends with ambiguity.

>>212312096
>>212323129
rec_dougs did a great review of the original, which came out a little bit before the remake;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw4tGhqIQ-8

Then when the remake did come out he put out this review of it which convinced me never to see it either:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk_QsSiSpbg

>>212311512 (OP)
Specialist.

>>212313823
Space mining. It is all there but they want to make a fortune here first.

>>212311875
>>impossible to find for streaming
the original series is on prime

>>212318125
Wrong¡!!!@@@ she is perfect for survivalist that is evading a global cabal.

>>212312167
this. best cinematography i've ever seen in a show. the same cinematographer did Tales from the Loop too, which is pretty but pretty boring and shit.

>>212311660
I watched the british one and recommended it to my dad saying it was awesome, he messaged back saying he loved it...and he really liked John Cusaks character. Couldnt believe it lol. That said he did watch the british one after and said he liked it

>>212324049
A movie could tie it all together. I saw the trailer for bull that the actor for Rb was the lead but the movie was a letdown by the 3rd act. It could have been a decent crime thriller.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf98Zr2ouV8
Have the full original cut

>>212311805
>globalist cabal
I don’t think you actually know what “globalism” means.

>>212327202
You should watch American Animals, same cinematographer as well, but that movie rocks.

>>212318125
I thought she was v spooky desu. She brings a kind of mystical unknown energy to the whole thing.

Don't put away the gas yet?

>>212311512 (OP)
S1 is pure intravenous kino. The pace is hectic throughout, and even minor characters are memorable.

One thing I liked (that was apparently lacking in the Ameriblob version) was the Jessica wasn't just
>le wasteland girlboss badass
but had a bit more complexity. Like when she's in the hotel room with Grant, it strays dangerously close to grooming (dressing him up, giving him alcohol), before she suddenly realises she could just torture the information out of him. Then when he cries for his mum, she cuddles him like a mother. i.e. her maternal instinct is still there, but kind of misfiring.

>>212311848
Strangely, yes, but it was very early covid before the vaccine thing became political. Otherwise I don't think it would have been made

>>212320661
I think they didn't understand UK S1 Jessica and just assumed she should be a Walking Dead wasteland badass

>>212330072
I'd agree with this, the whole point is that she's out of place with normal society

This is partly why S2 didn't work imo, the concept of the show works fine when everyone is sprinting around trying to find Mr Rabbit (as real life is suspended), but when the pace slows down it gets less fun

>>212312739
thats evil dave chapelle

>>212312739
>>212332775
Love my nigga Bokeem with all my heart

Lee was the only redeeming feature of S2. That scene in Arby's house and the scene where he slowly hits Winston with the crowbar are great. He's a master of 'nice/menacing'

>>212311512 (OP)
In Walford with Stacey Slater

Anyone notice that weird thing Arby does when he fires his pistol, he blocks his face with his other hand

>>212311512 (OP)
>watch this because it was some massive hyped up show
>first episode has interracial
>series ends with a "it all le continues xD" non-ending
>villains made more sense than the protagonists
>retarded holocaust shit
lmfao

>>212312167
sex with Becky

>>212314905
Holy shit that would have been Kino

>>212320661
You left out the part where they had to show her pissing standing up for some reason, terrible character

>>212320941
>also the indian guy who was tortured joining the ppl torturing him
Did that happen in the American version aswell? I can't remember. It makes sense in the UK version with the kind of personality he has and his ability to rationalise the networks motives and ends up realising he agrees with them on an ideological level despite what they had done to him, plus he takes his revenge on Lenny

>>212327229
Cusak is without a doubt the best part of the American version

>>212332834
Ahoy, matey!

>>212333327
Great in universe reason for the character since the actor blinks.

>you can never return to '13 /tv/ to discuss Utopia, Black Mirror, and Misfits

>>212321572
>>212322066
It's not adapted from a graphic novel, but a graphic novel is a pretty central plot point of the beginning of the show, which makes first anon's point still valid.

>>212330072
>>212332656
She's well written because at first you think she's like a badass Sarah Connor character who was never just a "normal kid" and "normal person", and is just some kind of action hero in a grand conspiracy story, but then turns out that those things actually just makes her a completely stunted person who doesn't know how to act human (again, because she never got raised to be someone normal).

>>212311512 (OP)
>wer in jawssica hoide m8?

>>212311512 (OP)
WAIT A TICK, WHERES YOUR HYDE LOICENSE

>>212311660
It's designed so viewers don't search out the UK version which has way more redpills. UK version predictedpandemic. plandemic.

>>212313823
They always say it's about to run out but it never does, it's like a doomsday prophecy. They told me in elementary school the US coastal cities would be covered in water by 2014 and we'd have to fight wars over fresh water by 2020. It's all a big scam. Research the climate gate I and II scandals. Global warming scientists regularly just fudge the data and make shit up. Oh yeah, the polar bear population is booming like never before.

The truth about oil is the earth is constantly making more of it faster than the rate we consume it. It's basically infinite but oil companies act like it's finite so they can charge more.

>>212327112
And heavily edited.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency had similar vibes to this. What is this genre called of low budget British shows that hit above their weight due to good writing and interesting premises?

>>212336735
Most people think that the amount of oil being pulled out of the ground is decreasing when the production bottleneck has been refining capacity for a long time now, since the 90s at least. Scarcity makes the product worth more.

It's completely retarded that everyone accepts there was an ice age that warmed up and went away but somehow any temperature change on the planet can only be caused by humans and carbon. Those mammoths must have been driving a lot of SUVs

>>212337243
we all know about all the cadillacs dinosaurs had

>>212336806
It's called having Cristobal Tapia de Veer on the soundtrack, Dirk Gently was in no way british lmao.

>>212311875
import shit, I can get the boxset as bluray for 25€ in Germany (also not that cheap though)

>>212311875
You can buy it new for £10 from HMV, if you're from bongland.

>>212337454
Dirk is a Britisher, isn't he?

>>212312167
First series is excllently written but the second series relies on plot contrivances and Dennis Kelly clearly couldn't grasp the extent of the Network. According to season 2, we're supposed to believe the Network gained all its influence in the span of 50 years and was a tightly runned ship with only a handful of members. Series 1 makes it seem more like an ever changing organism with legions of people in its midst who may or may not be ideologically on board with its goals. Characters like the Tramp and Mr Rabbit become less interesting when you see how lacklustre the Network is in season 2.

>>212337243
There were 7 major ice ages and 20 minor ice ages, all more dramatic then any climate change that we recorded post industrial revolution. People are retarded to blindly believe this scam, but that's what educational and media propaganda brainwash does to your average retard. Climate change is real, it's a natural process that happens regardless of humans being on the planet or not. Retards are so invested in the Climate change doomsday cult they will never accept reality.

>>212336134
Her gawking at the couple making out was great.

>>212311512 (OP)
What did they mean by this?

>>212337839
This show is incredibly nourishing for schizos.

>>212337243
I'm way less worried about greenhouse gasses and temperature than I am the acidity of our ecosystems increasing. Our microbiology is collapsing because it can't adapt to the rapid changes that industrialization and population growth are bringing. Ideally we hit peak population somewhere in the future and give the ecosystems some time to recover, but until then we have to face the fact that ocean calcification and acid rain will kill off entire sects of the ecosystem, and the only things left will be our factory farms.

>>212311512 (OP)

>>212337726
>First series is excllently written
I don't know, I saw Mr. Rabbit reveal coming miles away.
Because it was strange how they looked at the papers, and automatically dismissed all women.
If they even took a quick glance at the papers, they would have seen Milner attending the meeting.

>>212332704
To be fair to them she was channeling "literally Anton Chigurh" with her causal treatment of death.
So at the retarded glance of a US writer they might have thought they were actually adding to the character.

>>212340932
But Chigurh is the villain of the story he is in.
Obviously you can make bad or even vile protagonists, but they have to be shitty in a way that is interesting, or at least fun to watch. Gyllenhaal's character in Nightcrawler is a sociopath, but he's fascinating to watch.
The America version of Jessica Hyde is just flatly unpleasant. You almost wonder why the other characters don't just team up with Cusack's organization against her.