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Utopia

Network
Channel 4
Genre
Drama
Premiered
15 January, 2013
Utopia

A utopia is an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The term was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South America. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia, which dominates the fictional literature from the 1950s onwards, chiefly because of the impact of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. However, the term can also denote actual experiments in what participants regard as a vastly superior manner of living, generally in what are termed intentional communities. In common parlance it is synonymous with "impossible", "far-fetched", and "deluded". Literary utopias focus on, amongst other things, equality, in such categories as economics, government and justice, with the method and structure of proposed implementation varying based on ideology.

About Utopia

A group of people meet online and discover a graphic novel with mysterious answers. In doing so, they find themselves being hunted down by an organization called The Network.

Achievement of Utopia

The series won an International Emmy in 2014 for Best Drama Series. Gillian Flynn created the American adaptation of the series for Amazon Prime. 

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Latest information about Utopia updated on July 28 2021.