Exploits extreme violence and quirky aesthetics to distract from its essential hollowness.
The dissonance between its savagery and shallow characters—like dumping a bucket of pig's blood on a sidewalk chalk drawing—is very reminiscent of contemporary comics.
Dennis Kelly discovered that one person forcing another to do something they don't want to do on pain of death or torture or watching someone they love suffer makes for drama and so, wanting as much drama as he could possibly get, decided to create an entire show of nothing else. Similar to another dumb show, House of Cards, which consisted exclusively of betrayals. You have to betray someone to get your morning coffee in the House of Cards universe. In the Utopia universe, you must threaten to rape someone's wife in front of them to get them to give you the employee discount.
Stupid fucking male auteurs.
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