Utopia

[undercoverbrother]

Did anyone else watch this gong show last night on FOX?

In short 15 people are put into a "compound" and have to build their own community with their own values.


Highlights of last night:

• Physical assualt
• near sexual assualt
• alcohol poisoning
• people going nuts

[boosterjuice]

Yes, I watched that and was severely disgusted with humanity afterwards. Producers sure did a bang up job of choosing the extremes of population segments to create fireworks.

[Sainters7]

Ya, when they were plugging it all day during football, I was actually somewhat interested in the concept...until they showed a couple brief snippets and I got a taste of the type of people they chose. So basically it's just your run of the mill, attractive/confrontational/stupid reality show contestants. No, thanks.

[Fire]

Yeah and I'm sure they are not encouraged to act like idiots either...

[photon]

The host and narrator makes a webcomic like!

http://bizarrocomics.com/

[Chill Cosby]

I'm convinced it's a dark comedy.

The "characters" are all contrived, cliche, grating and generally awful individuals, basically caricatures of real human beings, all chosen for maximum conflict which will likely result in a warm ending that shows the brilliance of the human spirit and how if we work together and come together despite our differences, we too can improve the world.

Plus the host has a dope moustache, so it's great tele.

[ExiledFlamesFan]

This was hilarious. I knew it'd be a disaster just from the name. Utopia-this ain't gonna end well.

Burst out laughing when they showed that hipster narrator. Straight outta Brooklyn.

[Wormius]

I caught a bit of it. Not my cup of tea, was hoping to see some people who really wanted the opportunity to start a real community. This was pretty much Survivor + Big Brother.

There was actually a show, I think on PBS, where people did try to live pioneer lives though. Really interesting and engaging. Forget the name though.