crazy how Arby by the end was everyones favourite character when you see him commit some of the most evil acts imaginable in season 1...truly incredible what they did with that character. I found it heartbreaking when they go into what he was subjected to by his father who I consider probably the biggest piece of shit ont he show, probably even more than Mr Rabbit/Milner. Arby was abandoned by his father and left behind with The Network who turned him into a killing machine, yet its his father who did those things to him that de-sensitized him from violence in the first place. Had he done the right thing and took him with him and Jessica Hyde then Arby could have been prevented from becoming a heartless killer. But the father was a pathetic coward who couldnt stand to see what he had done to the boy so he left his only son to his fate, a son who just wanted to be loved
Anyone else notice how at 1:13 he shoots her this look as though hes trying to implicitly say"this is your fault, you know...your making me do this." Major props to Maskell for truly breathing life into such a seemingly frigid and contemptible character.
@@tanner4280 He made a clear threat and gave them the chance to avoid it, and only when they made the conscious decision to stay silent did he actually murder someone, he gave them a window where they could have certainly avoided it and they chose not to. It’s also a television show so this guy isn’t a real murderer, obviously you don’t give props to real killers for following through on threats.
Amazon's take was about as far removed from the UK's originality and tone as possible. Flat, unbelievable 2-dimensional characters behaving in unrealistic means, while forcing poorly written comedic beats to downplay any sense of seriousness & emotional impact. Felt like a parody, a sitcom, that couldn't go all in on the consequences & weight of death and acting out of fear. Don't get me started on slashing the OG's style & presentation style. They tried every now and then to replicate some semblance of the original's soul but was left feeling like an abundance of out of touch executive-suits playing with a corpse. Call me over dramatic, but cancelling a special show like this just to remake it in generic H-Wood fashion is as big a slap to the fucking face as possible. At the end of the day, it's been reduced to a forgotten television show for most, but to the rest of us, it means a hell of a lot more. Fingers crossed for real closure.
the remake is shameful near this Masterpiece ... the asthmatic villain totally insane and threatening and Jessica Hyde can transmit strength, coldness and objectivity without looking like a crazy beggar.
i watched the first 3 episodes with my friends over discord. we spent a lot of the time commentating and joking over the show. inside jokes and references and stuff like that. when we got to this part of episode 3, not a single one of us said a word until grant and alice got away. that's what separates the great from the best, getting a bunch of teenagers to shut up.
You know that home is the safest place you are in other than schools, etc. Utopia makes sure that your never really safe anywhere. Being watched or getting killed in your safe bubble at any moment or normal place is very chilling. Just like the paranoid man in the police station that trained the sleeper agents in S2 E6.
Weird foreshadowing at 4:11. A young boy and a young girl escape a traumatic situation, observed by a brother and sister who never escaped the trauma they were subjected to.
i am a proud fan boy of this .. the best i ever watched .. theres well more to this its not just a tv show its .. the art of properganda this .. has a gov backing .. bravo bravo bravo
Very emotional scene, makes me rewatch the whole series - again :). Stop all those stupid generic comments "is this show better than this or that". This is not an another show on your Netflix screen. This one attempts at making you use your braincells. Actively. Thanks for the upload !
This show really was ahead of time. You don't get to see violence so untamed like this often. No punches were pulled and Arby is all the more menacing for it.
Maybe because in this scene she's mentally broken after seeing her mother killed so other fears just aren't real in this moment, also there could be a lower outcropping that was outside so it wasn't a great height
@@agentdash8999 Yea thats true but it was kinda used for plot convenience/making an episode funnier/longer. Also I just thought maybe because she escaped through a window after her Mom died she became afraid of escaping through windows after that
I think it's because in season 2, the window she was escaping from was on the 4th floor of an apartment building. Here, it's a window of a two story house, 1st floor.
Great show.. acting, cinematography, sound, interesting story, writing, characters and aesthetics. Mainly all coming together to give a certain feeling.. in the Lynching use of the term feeling.
What music was used during this scene cuz it has no business slapping so hard while the worst trauma is happening to a little girl Edit: It's the ending part of Conspiracy Part 2 in the OST
Watched this series many many times and it is still amazing. Gutted there was never a series 3 and even more gutted they never took the opportunity to release actual Utopia 1&2 graphic novels from the ones in the show, they would have sold loads.
The network needs her alive for information and she knows this. However the killer sent by the network was siblings with her and didn't kidnap her because they both went through the same trauma
