Amazon Hopes Utopia Will Offer Covid-19 Distraction—Even Though It's About a Pandemic

The conspiracy thriller, shot before the shutdown, will air this fall

HBO’s upcoming Coastal Elites is the first scripted series entirely shot and set during Covid-19—but it won’t be the only scripted show this fall that centers around a pandemic.

Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming conspiracy thriller Utopia—which, yes, features a spreading global pandemic as a major plot point—will premiere as Covid-19 continues wreaking havoc around the world.

“It was kind of disturbing and surreal to see it come so closely to life with the pandemic,” John Cusack, who stars in the upcoming series, said today at CTAM’s virtual press tour, which is a partial replacement for the annual Television Critics Association’s summer press tour that was canceled this year due to the pandemic.

Utopia, which has been adapted from the British television series of the same name, follows a group of comic fans (played by Ashleigh LaThrop, Dan Byrd, Jessica Rothe, Desmin Borges and Javon Walton) who have bonded over their shared obsession of...

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