Utopia

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.

TV dramas score sound and vision with music soundtracks

Saskia Reeves lifts up a chess piece, halfway through a game

Listen with even half an ear and it’s obvious that TV music soundtracks have upped their game in recent times. This year alone, Hans Zimmer’s score for The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Federico Jusid’s work on A Gentle­man in Moscow jostle other worthy contenders to show how music can significantly elevate a series.