This post contains spoilers for "Utopia" and its 2020 adaptation.

Have you ever watched a television series on a whim, only to be blown away by its audacious brilliance and baffled by how criminally overlooked it is? Dennis Kelly's British sci-fi thriller, "Utopia," slots into this category of shows that remain overlooked despite being profusely lauded during their run on network television. It is a series that should be on every " X Best Television Shows" list of the past decade, but unfortunately, this Channel 4 drama never managed to achieve mainstream success despite getting an American adaptation. Before we talk about the maligned 2020 adaptation, let us take a peek into the wonderfully strange and gratuitously violent world of "Utopia," and why it was abruptly cancelled after two seasons.

"Utopia" revolves around an unpublished graphic novel sequel titled "The Utopia Experiments Part 2," which is rumored to contain information that predicts the fate of the world.