It is, after all, a form of music where the marginalized community who created are still in the majority. There have always been people who want to blame societal unrest on rap, control its packaging, or downplay its merits as a legitimate art form. It features a mix of music from around the world and knowledge about hip-hop spanning from DJ Kool Herc to Megan Thee Stallion and affirms that the genre is a powerful force built on expression, storytelling, and trendsetting. There are certainly some positive aspects of Utopia Falls.
The characters all get some level of development but, save for Bohdi and Aliyah, they feel mostly like one-dimensional players making random moves that do nothing to move any story forward. Utopia Falls is a teen show, so the sketchy decisions, annoying confrontations, loose lips, and general nonsense between the characters are par for the course.
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What’s going on with Aliyah’s family? Is their life beyond the shield? Who built the archive and why? Those are the questions going through fans minds as they wait for performances that are straight out of Honey 2 or Save the Last Dance to end. But in the grand scheme of this series’ developments, it simply isn’t that interesting, even with influences from the past. It was a way to bring kids together who wouldn’t have met otherwise and give them a platform for all of New Babyl. The general rationale behind the Exemplar competition makes sense. Utopia Falls does deliver some intriguing commentary and story threads, but they frequently get lost in melodramatic romantic tension, moments that are supposed to be profound but come across as corny, and a dance competition that is bleh at best.
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It is both unlike anything on TV and exactly like a lot of what fans have seen before in terms of typical genre tropes. So basically, it’s a musical sci-fi dystopian mystery/drama where kids try to dismantle a system through creative dance. Throughout the season, the main story arcs include: the pressures of keeping this relic a secret among Aliyah and Bohdi’s Exemplar inner circle Aliyah uncovering things about her family and city the group’s usage of what they have learned during performances to incite change Bohdi’s treatment and the growing tensions between the powers in charge and residents.
The extent of what the New Babyls know about the past themselves is equally vague, which may be addressed in the latter of half of the season but should have been clear upfront.
Certain songs like Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” are present, albeit in a different form, so it’s not necessarily an elimination of music by marginalized creators, but presumably a whitewashing of their content.
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The series doesn’t provide clarity on how, why, or when certain genres of music were eliminated from New Babyl’s culture, especially when the lines between them often blend together in real life. The discovery sparks creativity and makes them question everything they have been taught and push back against New Babyl’s groupthink standard. This is a future without one of the world’s most dominant and influential genres of music. (The Archive is voiced by none other than Snoop Dogg.) She meets Bohdi (Akiel Julien), a young man from the city’s lower-class Reform sector, and they soon find a mysterious secret place called The Archive: a high-tech time capsule of music, most notably hip-hop, history, and relics from Earth’s past that are completely new to their generation. A competition with a winner is an odd concept for a place that discourages emphasis on the individual, but let’s go with it. The protagonist group, specifically its privileged lead Aliyah (Robyn Alomar), and teens from other sectors are chosen for Exemplar, a performing arts competition to foster pride for New Babyl. This revelation isn’t shocking but instead disheartening considering New Babyl’s founder. The only perfect and peaceful world is one where we don’t exist. It’s the way of humans, even in a dystopian society where there’s a chance to build a better foundation. Of course, this is soon dismantled to reveal a hyper-controlling governing body with its share of prejudice, racism, inequality, and general messiness.
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