The survivors live in a giant totalitarian compound called New Babyl-in war, the first casualty is spell-checking-with Marxist undertones. Utopia Falls is set in a dystopian world blighted by an unspecified technology run-amok (possibly the Roomba Wars). None of us are safe from Canadian television. Our purpose here is merely to note that bad TV is a transnational phenomenon that transcends all technologies, platforms and business models. Why a reputable American entertainment company would buy an atrocity like the Canadian-made Utopia Falls, or why it would have been made in the first place, or why Canada even has a television industry, are all questions that theologians may debate for centuries. This last one, I must dutifully report, is no longer just an amusing fantasy but a genuine likelihood should you decide to watch an episode of Hulu's dizzying post-apocalyptic rap drama (I am pretty sure I'm the first person ever to type that phrase) Utopia Falls. Or that you suddenly and unaccountably found yourself with a fatally compelling urge to thrust red-hot pokers into your eyes and ears while praying for a quick descent into the fiery embrace of Hell. Or a Hunger Games in which the weapons are not bows and arrows but manuals of Canadian Choreography for the Big-Butted. It is not yet known if overseas territories that do not have access to Hulu or CBC Gem will broadcast the show.Imagine, as I suppose you have many times, Footloose set in a Stalinist work camp. Utopia Falls premiered on Hulu in the United States and CBC Gem in Canada on Februwith all 10 episodes available to stream. Principal photography for the first season began in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on March 1, 2019. The Exemplar semifinals are within sight and Aliyah 5 learns the truth about New Babyl.īohdi 2 and Aliyah 5 join a covert rebel group in New Babyl while Authority Phydra hunts down a mole in the Tribunal.Īliyah 5 plans to reveal the truth about New Babyl to the rest of the city during The Exemplar final. In New Babyl, the last surviving colony on Earth, Aliyah 5 discovers a secret cache called The Archive, a discovery that will alter her view on the world forever.Īliyah 5 discovers her mother may have had a connection to The Archive.Īuthority Phydra interrogates Bohdi 2 whilst Aliyah 5 leads the other Exemplar candidates in a protest inspired by the civil rights movement in order to gain Bohdi's release.Īliyah 5 and the other candidates decide to use information from The Archive to have a hip-hop inspired routine for their group round in The Exemplar.Īliyah 5, Apollo 4, Bohdi 2, and Brooklyn 2 head out to the edge of New Babyl to see if there is life beyond the shield.Īliyah 5 and the other candidates all struggle with a new reality as they come to terms with how their actions have resulted in a Tribunal backlash.Īuthority Phydra searches for all of the candidates who are connected to The Archive.
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