This then, surely, is a vehicle for inspection and change. He is not frightened by power and people often, if indeed they even bother to access such documentaries, feel very uncomfortable and challenged about their own view of our world. ![]() Journalists such as Pilger shine the light in the darkest of places across the world - where most don't dare go. the 'positive' things can readily be found if one cares to look. Of course, we do not need to 'fix what is not broken' so Pilger's film explores the underbelly of racism and genocide. As an Australian I am utterly ashamed and disgusted by Hancock's sickening view and he did not speak back then for all Australians, although many Australians still wish the 'aboriginal problem' would 'just go away'! Another reviewer suggests that Pilger's report is biased and one-sided. His daughter, Gina Reinhart (1954-present), is heir to his fortune and is one of the four richest women in the world. His name is Lang Hancock, a Western Australian iron-ore mining magnate (1909-1992). At that time, he was by far the richest 'self-made' man in Australia. 'The first thing shown to you is a 70's era anchorman talking about the plan of sitting ministers to simply round up people for no reason, and move them away, then taint their drinking water to sterilize them in a "Humane" manner'. I would like to correct some content in one of the reviews here, which is otherwise a very thoughtful and intelligent review. The truth is the truth, no matter where you live in our global village. ![]() One reviewer criticizes him for not having lived in Australia for decades. John Pilger is a highly acclaimed award winning Australian journalist who throughout his lifetime has contributed to humanity by calling the truth. This is not 'news' to anyone in Australia who watches our shameful history regarding indigenous peoples. We may never get viewing metrics from Amazon or any of the streamers, who are under no obligation to provide them, but it sure would be helpful in understanding some of their decisions, both as a critic and a consumer who pays multiple streaming bills each month.As an Australian, I fully acknowledge and support the content of this hard-to-watch documentary. I have no explanation, but obviously it comes down to Amazon's formula regarding cost versus eyeballs. Why was Hunters renewed and not Utopia? Well, its reviews were a bit better, and it had more of a 'fun' hook. Why did The Expanse get a sixth season? That I can't tell you. I'll miss this cast, which included John Cusack, Rainn Wilson, Sasha Lane, Desmin Borges, Dan Byrd, Ashleigh LaThrop, Farrah Mackenzie, Christopher Denham and Euphoria's Javon Walton, but at the same time, I'm glad they're now free to do other things, because I don't think a second season would have necessarily improved upon the first without jumping the shark a la Lost.Īs for Amazon, I wish it hadn't allowed the potential audience for Utopia to busy itself watching The Boys, which also held the focus and attention of the streamer's marketing department, making the Utopia launch something of an afterthought. Better to invest that money in either a fresh idea or another IP that could catch on with the culture rather than serve up seconds of a meal that no one was all that interested in the first time around. It just never had the breakout success envisioned by the streamer, and at that point, given the themes of the material and the current state of the world, the cost just isn't worth it. So while I was personally looking forward to a second season of Utopia and delving deeper into the mystery behind its titular comic book, I completely understand why the show just wasn't worth the potential headache for Amazon. ![]() The streamer obviously has no problem with violent shows, since it released Season 2 of The Boysjust three weeks before Utopia.īut this was a show in which children were routinely killed and the characters (rightly) questioned a vaccine, which is not something America or the rest of the world really needs right now. Now, if Utopia had scored with critics or subscribers, I think Amazon would've ordered a second season without blinking. But far from being over, the Network are only just beginning. Believing the Network to be finished, they each try to get back to some semblance of normality. Yes, it was an eerily timely series about a pandemic, but television is supposed to be a distraction from the real world more than a reflection, and people could basically look out their window and get the paranoid gist of Utopia, which upped the ante, naturally, in terms of violence.Ĭoming from the writer of Gone Girl, this shouldn't have been a major surprise, especially since I was familiar with the original UK series, but Flynn's Utopia was an incredibly violent show, particularly for one with such a young cast. It has been three months since the destruction of the Utopia manuscript, and things have been quiet for Ian, Becky and co. ![]() For starters, timing is everything in Hollywood, and Utopia could not have come at a worse time.
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