![]() Right from the start, the casting felt spot-on – Rose Leslie is a convincing version of the younger Milner, falling in "brain love" with Philip Carvel (The Musketeers' Tom Burke) – a character we've heard so much about, but never met, like his daughter Jessica Hyde's introduction back at the end of the first episode. ![]() It's so much more than a prequel or a flashback – somehow it feels more like an extension of the whole Utopia universe, widening the parameters of the story to show us the motivations behind the madness we already have already been witness to. It's like finding yourself ditched at a party with the one person you really don't want to spend any time with, and then realising that they're fascinating. The fact that we spend the whole of the first episode in the past, anchored only by versions of the big bad Milner, is unnerving once you realise that we're not going back to the future at any point. ![]() It's a disorientating, exhilarating experience, throwing the audience in at the deep end to refresh our senses and remind us how exciting Utopia is to watch. In a childhood filled with rabbits and raisins, there's young Petrie and Jessica, and in case you forgot it's Utopia – fingernails get the eyeball treatment. We see Milner starting out on her path to become Mr Rabbit, steeling herself to the violence she believes is necessary to save the world. ![]() A whole episode without any of the original cast, a period setting – swapping the yellows for reds, and even transmitting in a different aspect ratio … We finally meet Philip Carvel, the brilliant scientist behind the deadly Janus project, and later the author of The Utopia Experiments. Even for Utopia, which has never been afraid to push the boundaries or keep its audience guessing, this is a pretty bold way to return. ![]()
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