Utopia (Australian comedy TV series)
Hacker ApprovedRanked 3 of 8 sitcoms by recommenders
Fans praise its writing and how closely it seems to predict real events; it runs only two seasons.
Fans praise its writing and how closely it seems to predict real events; it runs only two seasons.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 14
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 93%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 14 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 14 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Writing praised as genius
“This shows the genius of Utopia's writers.”
Comment from 27 Nov 2025 in “$96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch” “remaking it into absolute shit”
Comment from 7 Feb 2026 in “I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams” Feels like a documentary, predictive
“Funny enough, I recently stumbled upon an Australian comedy show called Utopia that looks more and more like a documentary now.”
Comment from 27 Nov 2025 in “$96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch” “It's just two seasons, I suggest everyone watch it to get a sense of what I mean by predictive programming.”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri” Recommended as quality television
“I miss the quality of TV shows we reached with Mr. Robot, Silicon Valley, Utopia (UK), and Westworld”
Comment from 27 Mar 2026 in “Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent” “remaking it into absolute shit”
Comment from 7 Feb 2026 in “I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams” “Definitely recommend the show”
Comment from 24 Dec 2025 in “Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks”
Other sitcoms people recommend
The four most recommended other sitcoms, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Office | 23 | 14 | 62% | 7 | — | — |
| Red Dwarf | 20 | 2 | 91% | 5 | — | Approved |
| Utopia (Australian comedy TV series)This page | 14 | 1 | 93% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Yes Minister | 9 | 0 | 100% | 7 | — | — |
| It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | 9 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
All 17 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Utopia by Astral Projection (that whole album Trust in Trance 3 is great for this)”
“We had this in Utah for over a decade now”
“It's just two seasons, I suggest everyone watch it to get a sense of what I mean by predictive programming.”
“For font sizing and spacing, I always recommend”
“and that is very exciting.”
“We already have this in Utah with Utopia with 53% coverage across the state”
“I miss the quality of TV shows we reached with Mr. Robot, Silicon Valley, Utopia (UK), and Westworld”
“I've been practicing is to be intentional about every margin / piece of whitespace, and to use a proportional scale like utopia.fyi”
“The goal of the fictional societies is to explore what they could be and to challenge existing ideas.”
“probably the greatest show ever made”
“remaking it into absolute shit”
“read the first few pages of Utopia by Thomas More, a fucking 510 year old book where the author explains why this is such a crushingly stupid”
“Standardizing spacing and type with https://utopia.fyi is brilliant”
“Definitely recommend the show”
“This shows the genius of Utopia's writers.”
“Funny enough, I recently stumbled upon an Australian comedy show called Utopia that looks more and more like a documentary now.”
“the UTOPIA network is wholesale-only”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.