Dennis Kelly

Torture, a scuba diving bag and Brazilian beats: inside Utopia, the show everyone loves and no-one remembers

Fiona O'Shaughnessy stands indoors, looking off to the side, unsmiling

Less than a minute into the first episode, a man is dead before he hits the floor. His assailant steps around the body, in time for a colleague to ask a terrified comic book shop worker:

“Where is Jessica Hyde?”

A lethal game of cat and mouse ensues when the Network – a shadowy organisation hellbent on decreasing Earth’s population – begin to hunt down the ordinary people in their way.