Utopia (2014)
FOX | Release Date: September 7, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 4 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
2
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydSep 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: When the campers are just sitting around talking, about sex or God--or about each other behind their various radio-miked backs--they provide the gentle stimulation of coffee-shop eavesdropping.... When they argue, which they do, mostly over food and money or someone's self-professed expertise not being respected, it becomes tiring, like listening to the neighbors fight. Read full review
40
SlateWilla PaskinSep 10, 2014
Season 1 Review: Even as Utopia promises to never, ever live up to its name, its funhouse-mirror reflections of the fault lines--religion, class, politics--in our own larger, obviously imperfect society make for fascinating TV, if only occasionally. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenSep 11, 2014
Season 1 Review: Fox executives could have saved substantial production costs and achieved basically the same boring result by filming 14 randy monkeys in a cage containing only 10 bananas. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian LowrySep 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: While raw and weird have certainly yielded dividends in the past, please let’s not kid ourselves: If Utopia has any legs at all, it will as a cable-style freakshow, not some grand “experiment” in democracy. Read full review
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