Anybody watch Utopia?

[extracrunchy]

And think this evening's school shooting scene was just horrendous? Gratuitous, and in extremely poor taste, given recent events in the news. I don't think I'm going to watch any more.

That's actually the point, there's a lot of controversy over the Sandy Hook events I.e his house being taped up before the crime even happened, paramedics took no injured people out, parents still don't have the bodies etc.

I can appreciate its upsetting, I was actually expecting it to be worse if that torture scene is anything to go by.

Actually the last funerals happened before Christmas. I don't know about the taped up house, but honestly if any of what you said was true (and Utopia had been filmed after the massacre and not in August last year!) it is STILL totally inappropriate to generate what is effectively entertainment out of a very recent real life tragedy.

I gave up after the school shooting - it made me feel sick and I don't watch things to feel sick.

(didn't link it to RL events though, it was just Too Much for me).

not all of them, there's is actually more than that but I'm not gonna delve, I'm not usually a conspiracy person but I'm not naiive enough to believe everything I hear either, stuff like that doesn't get a good response on here so I'll leave it at that.
No-ones it didn't happen but often afterwards i.e Columbine shootings things come out afterwards that appear strange, its obviously not that exact case its replicating, its more the idea that things aren't always what they seems.

I am enjoying it but there does seem a lot of gratuitous killing of children. The boy in the comic shop, the family with kids in the garage and then the school thing. I was shouting at the TV -'We get it, they are heartless bastards , they even kill kids'. It was horrible. I walked out to make a cup of tea when I realised he was going to shoot the kids at school.They really didn't need to do it.

I started watching this last night - is it a series? It was pretty horrific?

Yeah I got that a bit poozlepants, the garage bit I actually found worse than the school I'm not sure why.

I couldn't believe after all the nice innocent people Alby killed he didn't kill that Jessica Hyde woman. That actress is doing my nut in.
The story is great, the cast is great, the way it is shot is fantastic I just don't see the need for the uber violence. It detracts from it rather than adds.

Exactly poozle! I think the sound design is awesome too.
But I literally couldn't watch any more after the school scene last night. That little boy hiding his face
And it's pissed me off to the point that I'm not sure I want to watch next week either!

theres another Utopia thread here - www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/1660471-Utopia

as i mentioned there, the violence is the main point of the programme. Any kind of violence in anything is going to offend people

I Think its wierd he went 'who is jessica hyde' afterwards too, he seemed to become curious about his own childhood in that episode he , I'm assuming hes a orphan from bulgaria trained to kill or something?.
I think the pregnant prostitute storyline is good, I really want something very nasty to happen to that cheating scumbag, the fact he seems like 'a nice bloke' makes me want it more? I might be the only one , not his wife though

I love Wilson n grant!!!
yeah Jessica Hyde is irritating.

Utopia was filmed ages ago.

Most of the countryside scenes and the scenes with the wind turbines were filmed at my mother n law's farm in Lancashire. All of that happened in the summer of last year I think. No conspiracy there.

In the nicest possible way people aren't grasping what I am saying, Its a general 'don't believe everything you hear' message I think in some of it i.e grant being framed etc.

You do know it's fiction don't you?

"his house being taped up before the crime even happened" - I can't find anything about this on the net. Am I missing something?

What? urgh I give up fiction especially conspiracy dramas will always have little nods to things irl, thats the only point I'm making

What do u mean, though, that his house was taped up before the crime?

intriguing

I watched the start again last night, as dh was catching up. The school shooting scene doesn't sjow anyone other than the msn getting shot. Ok, we know he killed the children too but we don't see any of it. So it wasn't actually gratuitous at all, iyswim.

*show anyone other than the man

Why comparisons to the Sandy Hook shootings if Utopia was filmed way BEFORE that happened?

From my rather skimpy knowledge of that school massacre, the boy's mother was found dead first I think and so the police had already cordoned off the house and were looking for the boy?
No conspiracy there.

I'm only watching Utopia so dh and I can yell "there it is! There's your mum's field! There's the poplar woods dd plays in! There are your brother's turbines!"

The last episode showed them in a church which is actually in Croston, Lancs and dh and his brothers used to be altar boys there. And that's where they chose to blow someone's brains out, whopper!