I wrote about Utopia a few months ago after watching the first season - the second six-episode season finished airing a couple of weeks ago, and it’s superbly-crafted, quite unlike anything I’ve ever seen on television before. There’s a graphic novel sensibility to it all - the tableaux and wide angles you see above are everywhere in the show, and this season ramped everything up - the stakes, the drama, the comedy and even the soundtrack felt even more heightened before.

I’m slightly concerned at the fact that David Fincher currently has a deal with HBO to adapt this series - not because I don’t think he’s talented, but because even the best HBO shows do fit a dramatic arc that is turned on its head here. I worry that the essentially experimental and revolutionary way that this show is might be muddied a little with his name attached. But we’ll see. Maybe it’ll be better. In the meantime, if you can handle a bit of violence, make sure you watch this by any means necessary.