![]() ![]() “I want it to feel American.” In 2020, it certainly does. “I’ve added entire characters and plotlines,” Flynn said in September 2019, during one of the last days on set. It’s as if “The Manchurian Candidate” starred the cast of “Freaks and Geeks,” where punches and punchlines duke it out with the same verve as Flynn’s work in “Gone Girl.” As Cusack puts it, Flynn makes “the horrific and the absurd merge.” But it’s Flynn’s cynical insight into the nation that takes the show from unfortunate COVID-19 coincidence to damning divination. Their clues come hidden in graphic novels named “Utopia” and “Dystopia” from the mysterious Jessica Hyde (Sasha Lane) - who also happens to be the subject of the comics themselves. Meanwhile, a nerdy group of comic obsessives - Ian (Dan Byrd), Becky (Ashleigh LaThrop), Wilson (Desmin Borges), Samantha (Jessica Rothe) and Grant (Javon Walton) - attempt to reach the truth behind the outbreak. The former is recognizable to anyone who’s witnessed Elon Musk’s cult of personality the latter, an unintentional allegory for healthcare heroes like Dr. Kevin Christie (John Cusack, in his first regular TV role) and worker-drone virologist Michael Stearns (Wilson). And this soothsaying is anything but soothing.Īuthor-turned-showrunner Flynn’s violent, bitterly funny remix of Dennis Kelly’s British original unleashes a virus “as lethal as the Spanish flu - a world-killer” battled by both rock star biotech mogul Dr. “The number of ways that the show echoes the real world is truly uncanny,” said star Rainn Wilson. ![]() response to a nationwide problem: anger, paranoia and plenty of ulterior motives looking to make use of each. Cutting to our cultural quick is the show’s spin on a typical U.S. The novel coronavirus might be the touchstone that jumps out to audiences when the series premieres Friday, but that’s just where the parallels start. A globe-spanning pandemic, conspiracy-fueled protests, Chicago on the world stage: Amazon wanted Gillian Flynn to create an American “Utopia,” but her adaptation became an insightful piece of TV ESP. ![]()
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