Utopia TV show season one review. Kerrang Radio TV critic James Donaghy reviews Channel 4's Utopia with Loz and Keith on the breakfast show. Aerial Telly forever. Comic book conspiracy turds never. http://aerialtelly.co.uk/ <br /> <br />A conspiracy drama about a mysteriously prophetic graphic novel – it’s all so very graphic novelly. Utopia has a comic book feel throughout in fact and as we start we’re in a comic shop where the British version of Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons tells two interlopers that the premises are in fact closed for business and would they mind shuffling along what-what. But I don’t think these gentlemen have come to complete their collection of Crisis on Infinite Earths. The first clue is that one of them caves a customer’s skull in with a length of pipe; the second is when they put another permanently to sleep with a special gas like The Penguin. The two (Lee (Paul Ready) and Arby (Neil Maskell), FYI, not that they’re big on introductions or other social niceties) address Comic Book Guy who is now sweating and farting like Mister Ed ahead of a visit from Clare Balding. They’d rather like to know where one Jessica Hyde is and also, if it’s not too much trouble, where the original manuscript of graphic novel The Utopia Experiments that he was holding onto is. In a few minutes he’ll be dead and The Chuckle Brothers will be on their way. See what I’m saying about High Street retailers disappearing? <br /> <br />So The Utopia Experiments must be a hell of a read then yes? Four stars on Amazon and an outside bet for a slot on Oprah’s Book Club? A little background: its author Mark Dane was a delusional paranoid schizophrenic who wrote the book in a psychiatric institution then killed himself. It tells the tale of a scientist who makes a deal with the devil for knowledge and the book became a cult hit with the dateless wonders of the Internet comic critiquing community. Five such woeful comic book geeks who discuss it on a forum certainly rate it highly. We have – Ian (Nathan Jarrett-Stewart, Curtis from Misfits), an IT worker who lives with his mom; Becky (Alexandra Roach), a postgrad doing a PhD on The Utopia Experiments; Grant (Oliver Woollford), a smart but feral 10-year-old piece of shit; the conspiracy obsessed Wilson Wilson (Adeel Akhtar) and bringing them altogether the mysterious Bejan (Mark Stobbart) who tells them he has the second instalment of Utopia which, as any Utopia aficionado will tell you, does not exist. The rest are intrigued enough by his claim to accept his invitation to meet up. After all, it’s strangers on the Internet – what could go wrong with that? <br /> <br /> <br />Some of Aerial Telly's favourite channels <br />Dark5: Videos set to DISTURB <br />https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQebyNJm9YRyO5h0eWEVhw <br /> <br /> Jeremy Jahns: No-nonsense movie reviews <br />https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7v3-2K1N84V67IF-WTRG-Q <br /> <br />Rob Dyke: Horror! Death! Crime! Find it all here <br />https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYxrnDjNQZIs_aAcdhqSveg <br /> <br /> Top 5 Unknowns: From the paranormal to the downright creepy <br />https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHgI_MItRWEKLX7lKz7Xn0g <br /> <br /> Blue Lightning TV: Awesome and fun Photoshop tutorials <br />https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDfJlseFwUx2X0h3m5PRILA <br /> <br /> <br />Aerial Telly episode guides <br />http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B00HQJVMQE <br /> <br />Website <br />http://aerialtelly.co.uk/ <br /> <br /> <br />Facebook <br />https://www.facebook.com/aerialtelly/
