It’s always a bummer when a show we really love gets canceled. It is perhaps even more upsetting when it’s a show that could have changed the entire way we look at television that gets the ax. In 2013, British network Channel 4 seemed to have hit the jackpot with a little series called Utopia. Well, artistically speaking, that is. Utopia never quite got the recognition it deserved from audiences, and ended up getting chopped down in 2014 after its second season. All it takes is a second looking at the show’s striking visuals to realize that this was a mistake. Utopia is nothing short of a tour de force, not only for how its crew conceives its images, but also for how showrunner Dennis Kelly builds the suspense that makes the series tick, revealing the basics right away while still keeping us at the edge of our seats. But, sadly, numbers speak: despite its loyal fanbase, the show didn’t garner enough viewers to keep on going. Regardless, more than ten years after its release, it still deserves to be celebrated.
