One Scene That Perfectly Sums Up Each Character | Utopia

[@matty101yttam]

"they're the experts" "where do we fit in" "you don't" lol

[@Snowy-r6r]

My wife is an Executive Officer and she wont watch Utopia, she says she starts to feel stressed and depressed. It's TOO real. I just point at the TV and piss myself laughing "Look, it's you at work losing your shit at the muppets".

[@SenseiEpu]

I felt the same about The Office. That's why I've never seen it.

[@meol0390]

@@SenseiEpuI painfully watched my way through the entirety of the Office…

[@chook1311]

Such a good story

[@Clynikal]

I felt the same way working in the public service. It’s too close to reality. Sometimes it feels like they are just writing the script off CCTV.

[@Snowy-r6r]

@@Clynikal the episode where they're looking at projects in the Northern Territory, there's a line in there that a bloke I know says came straight out of a meeting they had over exactly that project. So they have someone on the inside.

[@well-blazeredman6187]

Best line: 'To search Asians for food.' Well, it made me LOL.

[@paksta]

That really is 90% of the show 😂

[@cx-zy7us]

I had to pause to compose myself.

[@BWater-yq3jx]

Almost missed that. Freakin hilarious cos it's true.

[@RobbieDK-91]

As a security personnel working for an undisclosed .. Building The scene with the security guard stopping, questioning the ID and access card situation only to find out said employee is using someone else’s card to get around the building is 100% accurate beyond belief!! 😂😂 had me in stitches as I can definitely relate. These guys have well and truly done the homework

[@flopus7]

I've had subordinates do this. I was supervising security...

[@terryhunt2659]

A friend of mine works in security. He's known senior executives of client firms deliberately try to get past him in various ways as a test to see that he's prepared to do his job properly, no matter who's involved.

[@NickJohnCoop]

I really want this series to end with Tony calmly telling each of these people exactly what he thinks of them.

[@DanielMasmanian]

As they're sitting smuggly in Blofeld chairs above the shark tank?

[@Fifthsboy]

Particularly Rhonda and Jim. I get the feeling only Natalie would escape

[@rustycherkas8229]

Pointless (and "Tony" knows it.) Been there and done that. Easier to get a bullet INTO Superman than to get characters like these (Rhonda, Jim) to see themselves for what they are. This series isn't comedy. It's a documentary based on true stories.

[@kparker2430]

it ends with tony fronting a government inquiry and taking the fall. Rhonda and Jim live happily ever after and Nat moves to Tassy and does real estate

[@mdsf01]

I don't want the series to end. Seriously one of the funniest, well written, well acted series.

[@yfelwulf]

"Never attribute to malice, what can be adequately be explained by stupidity."

[@Hraefncin]

Or old fashioned greed.

[@solikewhatlol]

Case in point. I didnt take your comment personally. I just think your too stupid to get a jargon file quote correct.

[@tenou213]

@@Hraefncin Nah, getting caught being greedy is stupid.

[@taherelm277]

Hamlin's Razor, does explain government quite well actually

[@noone-ld7pt]

@@taherelm277 Think you mean Hanlon's Razor, but I definitely agree

[@lukebrennan5780]

a very clear message to new arrivals "YOU ARE NOT WELCOME!" - Yep, every time I see them at airports. A BRIDGE TO TASMANIA! I'm dying.

[@kiwiguy72]

Love the last one! "Protecting our trade with China, from China".

[@nicholassmith7984]

It's not the trade that's the problem (though that is one;) it's the CCP's regional ambitions.

[@kiwiguy72]

@@nicholassmith7984 that has absolutely nothing to do with the scene or the comedic value.

[@warrenallsopp]

@@nicholassmith7984 Not fair. You're obviously one of the show's writers.

[@MarksElectricLife]

As near to perfect as satire can be!

[@captainpoppleton]

@@nicholassmith7984 .....so we are going to stop China's regional ambitions ? No we are not. China could take over Taiwan, The Phillipines and Tasmania and we would do nothing.

[@Big_Al_4223]

I want to say you folk at working dog are geniuses, but it’s so accurate……you don’t have to make this stuff up. Perhaps “honest” or “opportunistic” is a better descriptor. Well done you for shining a light on, and/or making a buck off of telling it like it is.

[@SunilKumar-f2h2j]

So so true. You said exactly what I wanted to say.😂😅

[@paulbryce492]

There was a British Show from the 70's that did the same thing in their context. "Yes, Minister"

[@suzanneedmonds1566]

​@@paulbryce492 Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister were both brilliant TV programmes. Very funny but sadly too true as well.

[@jamiejones8508]

I’m a long-standing yes minister fan…I always say this is yes minister for the 21st century!

[@gokhanj.yenigun7933]

I would not wanna raise tensions. Where? In this room. ROFL!

[@gandfgandf5826]

Funniest thing about this show is reality followed it. Australian Space Agency founded in 2018, years after being suggested by a 7th grader in an episode of the first Utopia series. Also a full size sports stadium for Tasmania is in the works. 😂

[@Sam-ss3cw]

"Oh f you all...." Very common these days on Zoom (muted hopefully)

[@Alex-dz2et]

Not if there’s also an Auslan interpreter 😂

[@NickJohnCoop]

@@Alex-dz2etPretty sure any Aussie interpreter would do the same.

[@Alex-dz2et]

@@NickJohnCoop what do you think an Auslan interpreter is?

[@anthonym1571]

In my case, not every time, and anyway my face gives it away.

[@DeKaged]

Why is there a sign language interpreter ? Nobody in the meeting is deaf, I think?

[@HeroinesReflection]

Tony represents the audience 😆

[@brad1840]

I work for the national parks and wildlife service and this is hauntingly accurate

[@oldmanconklin]

The way the woman in white chokes on her coffee when the younger woman says, "Eight." ☕ 😂

[@zorkestar]

Rob Sitch is just great, his longsuffering pained expressions just make me laugh every time.

[@HeyThatsMe3]

0:35 No idea how many times I’ve watched this scene and never noticed the interpreter throw up the double bird. 😂 I swear I feel like a Mandela Effect Moment has occurred. Oh how oblivious I was all the times I’ve seen this scene.

[@preacherjohn]

Good call, I missed that too! 😂😂

[@EmmanuelMuthomi]

I just noticed it now, watching the video for the umpteenth time.

[@user34274]

“What is this, QandA?” LMAOOO

[@straightsilver3823]

I lost it!

[@thatsbollox]

Luvved the 4th one where the upset girl complains about a coffee cup she found in the recycle bin. Very serious problem that needed to be addressed.

[@tehlulzpare]

My favourite thing. I worked a theme park. All the recycling bins and garbage cans literally went to the same place for sorting. We lacked the resources to have two separate receptacles on site, so even after my department picked it up, it still ended up going to the exact same outsourced waste company. Point of all that preamble? One in-park supervisor was livid her crew were tossing all of this stuff together(we had told them the behind the scenes stuff but we didn’t get to telling her) and she had them sorting it all, in the back area, as they emptied all the bags, by hand. To ensure all the recycling was separate. Because of the environment. In her defense, she clearly did care! More than most can say. Our fucking company certainly didn’t lmao. Caring was outsourced. I didn’t care as I figured it got sorted at the facility, and in all fairness it did, that I knew from doing that job too at one point. At this job though, I merely needed to haul it to the back area. All the kids had to do was change the bags in the park and dump those bags in a dumpster we’d pick up. Easy. She screwed up hours of work and let the park go to shit in the mean time as all her crew was in the back sorting. She was in her mid-20’s too, can’t blame youth.

[@richardm7181]

I hate that I know these people - I hate how close Working Dog can nail the absurdity. But they are the best out there.

[@janemacintyre9801]

Jim: Can I just have a couple of squares ...

[@christopherofarrell8665]

Tony: No!

[@ndyoutv]

Maybe off to the side, a circle!

[@351Landau]

1.00 "Warnie" "How do you spell it?" 😂

[@stevendurick9441]

Nice touch with the interpreter sticking up the double middle finger for something Nat clearly tried to say under her breath

[@MrLittletube]

“Not built by the government”😂😂😂

[@robertfioravanti9240]

Makes you want to laugh and cry at the same time Poor poor taxpayers

[@iggysixx]

"..but nothing got done." Each and every interaction - painfully close to real life

[@v66catta84]

Great writing and casting! Working Dog, always a level above in creativity!

[@chrisbourke5062]

I wish I could stream this in the UK somehow!

[@niloc1414]

VPN

[@falloversideways]

Has he unplugged it? Oh yeah, he has. Hahahahahaha, poor Hughie

[@MrAhuapai]

"so we are spending 30 billion dollars a year to protect our trade with China from China !?" It never gets old that line.

[@paulbryce492]

There was a British Show from the 70's that did the same thing in their context. "Yes, Minister"

[@wierdalien1]

80s

[@tdb7992]

That show was very popular in Australia too.

[@buzz092]

We have a much more modern one too called The Thick of It. Peter Capaldi before he became Doctor Who, doing a LOT of swearing.

[@RDDHopsing77]

Remember it well. Very popular in Oz. Evolved into "Yes Prime Minister." Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphry Appleby was amazing.

[@suzanneedmonds1566]

I loved both Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister they were hilarious but sadly also too real.

[@simonchoi973]

You know what, at least we can laugh about it, we are not missing our great sense of humour

[@Omertahun]

how do you know you laugh at the right thing. I for one, find this series horrifying and very stressful.

[@archiebunkerr9723]

It's a pity that we can't watch this great show in Europe. I would pay for it.

[@daramaccarthy]

It’s live in a country where you live 😂

[@Sequence0_Paradox]

May I offer the reddit piracy megathread as a solution?

[@archiebunkerr9723]

@@Sequence0_Paradox nah

[@gillianm9367]

I believe it's on Amazon Prime but as others have suggested (and I can vouch for) just apply to work in any government department for a daily dose of hysterical ineptitude and wasted resources at every level😮

[@FreddySherman]

Not available in the US either!!

[@hardik6794]

To search asians for food 😭😂

[@NxDoyle]

Great line.

[@roberthindle5146]

The sign language at 0:32 😄

[@petermcgill1315]

Hard hitting documentaries. Love it!

[@adimudiraj]

Watching the clips…I’m equally tempted to watch it but at the same time I know my stress levels will go off the charts..

[@stuartzoo]

I’m so glad I found this show 😂

[@bridgetgardner1207]

Bless you Working Dog! So brilliant - and frighteningly real! 😂

[@xx3868]

Love the Navy Admiral and commander or capt down the end of the table.

[@AHoardyBoi]

Scene at 6:50 had me crying, this is way too real

[@danielschegh9695]

The planning and tender process? As a Canadian, I'm shocked they can do it so fast. Our F-35 procurement process started in 1997 with the program itself. In 2010 we announced plans to purchase. In 2015, current PM Justin Trudeau ran his election on a platform promising not to buy the F-35, by which time we'd already spent $309M USD on the program. Promises were made in 2016 to hold a competition and exclude the F-35, and to buy F/A-18 Super Hornets as interim solution. In 2017, the Super Hornets were cancelled. Formal competition started in 2019. In 2022, the results were in and the winner was ... the F-35. First deliveries will start in 2026.

[@mnm8818]

​@@danielschegh9695 by the time they deliver sufficient fighters, complete training, test runs, combat exercises, it will be obsolete

[@p1rp568]

Canadian here. Our town's new hospital opened, eventually. Unboxed the new cardiac stress testing equipment that had been lying in wait. Treadmill didn't work. Warranty? Long since expired. On to purchasing...

[@mnm8818]

@@p1rp568 income/ expense writeoff. non issue lol

[@pnutz_2]

@@danielschegh9695 oh god at least we got our first couple into the country in 2017, our submarines meanwhile....

[@baconfootball3995]

I need this is in the US

[@WizFizz]

Always brilliant! So painfully hilarious.

[@mountainsmusicbeer5532]

"Are you not seeing the point?" "Of an office?"

[@aadityachhitarka1938]

The sign translator when she curses😭

[@JasonLynch-h9u]

It’s more of a documentary 👍🏼🤣

[@lainegordon5831]

I loved that show.

[@TERMINATIONBLISS08]

When they're talking about Border Force, he is absolutely right about Asians bringing in food! I used to watch that show, and man those Asian grandmothers brought in so much food!

[@rodgerhempfing2921]

I try to follow them out, it's hilarious.

[@MichaelGGarry]

As someone with an Asian mother in law, VERY accurate!

[@julianwalls1077]

The fine was only 400 bucks it was clear their rebate offenders and very well heeled 4000 fine would stop this 😢

[@jimoinj]

We should probably visit you! 😂😂

[@noelzywright6798]

Brilliant 👌😊 The accuracy of every depiction is a little triggering - but it's brilliantly funny 😅😊

[@ianmcknight7310]

Spot on! well done WDP

[@devshah4697]

Ashan is crazy to be the only person who knows Chaminda Vaas' full name

[@billd7197]

What a great show so funny and real.

[@miaosun4382]

this show is epic

[@rocknral]

I love Nat. She really, really really wants to tell people to......go away.

[@nsrlegaltech]

Great question!

[@insane_mclane]

Where can you watch it

[@ProbablyTheBestUkuleleDadEver]

Can we get this on in the UK?

[@johntenhave1]

So accurate it hurts! Actually I might need a couple of days off to see the doctor/ aromatherapist about the pain. I will be on email if you need me.

[@redrock1963]

A lot of work place "characters" fit into the category of mediocre leaving the rest standing above like "tall poppies" in the chaff. The main problem with this is that the chaff don't realize they are chaff and the tall poppies are left to work through the frustrations.

[@shaneburns4349]

Aussie Gold.

[@hmson4378]

Just brilliant!!!!

[@Indy-Vidual]

So good! I've been in those policy offices before, met with them, and had to listen to their word salad. It's astounding just how accurate these characters are to the people on the inside... Well, they should be inside asylums but hey we need tax payers paying now don't we!

[@pdalea9256]

Best best best laugh a minute reality show ever 🍻🕺

[@Fomites]

Brilliant!

[@EmperorGodLeto]

Would anyone know how this show can be streamed in Canada? Netflix allegedly has it for the U.S., but doesn't allow access here :(

[@RD19902010]

use a vpn

[@zhongyiqian5176]

Please!!!!! How do I watch this show in North America!!!!!! Does anybody know???? VPN?????

[@melissamarsh2219]

Netflix. In US it’s called Dreamland

[@harleyquinn3589]

Google 7 Best VPNs to watch Stan abroad... good luck

[@warrenb9343]

Yes, VPN. I am in Italy and watch it that way. Fisk is another good show. I've searched for Dreamland and it does not come up on my Netflix no matter where I am.

[@zhongyiqian5176]

@@melissamarsh2219 It's not. Or at least not anymore

[@rdouglas747]

@@melissamarsh2219it used to be on Netflix, but was removed sometime ago. Also, Netflix only carried the first two seasons of this show…called Utopia in Australia. There are five seasons now.

[@sarcasmo57]

Nailed it.

[@Enlight_Entertain]

Its so Sri Lankan names 😂

[@lazytitan6848]

“Lets go with Warnie” “How do you spell that?”

[@fidget2020]

Help me! I need to know where to watch ALL the episodes of this show.

[@geoffgeorge805]

Netflix or ABC's IVIEW

[@fidget2020]

@@geoffgeorge805 Cheers!

[@robincray116]

Its called dreamland on Netflix

[@fidget2020]

@@robincray116 Thanks, but can't see it under either title. My Netflix is NZ based, maybe that's got something to do with it...??

[@Matchalways]

The show is Utopia

[@FatGouf]

Amy Kim is too adorable

[@Rangerkoda]

Where can I watch this in America?

[@Indy-Vidual]

If you like this, you'll love Rick Mayall in "the new statesman"

[@Carlosbnker]

A national birthday center sounds wicked

[@andrewdavidson665]

The IT Crowd hurts my soul in one way. This hurts my soul in another. I need another different different line of work...

[@dnsld]

How do I watch this in the USA?

[@bodybalanceU2]

VPN? its on abc iview

[@roadwarrior144]

This show makes me want to laugh out loud whilst simultaneously want to kill myself.

[@Biggaz1313]

Brilliant

[@Gannicus-USA]

I used to watch “Outsourced!” We had a team in India and it was so funny

[@Meadowstone_Kentucky]

I can't find this streaming anywhere and I want to watch it.

[@rubinacarlson3195]

Netflix or ABCiview.

[@mrrolandlawrence]

nebulous wish list. pure gold.

[@maryg.7103]

I worked for the fed Gov- soooo realistic 😂

[@homerhiers6086]

Help! I live in the US but i really want to watch this show. Anyone have a solution?

[@leechgully]

VPN

[@lucasmoratoaraujo8433]

fmhy

[@romantra7]

Where did Hugh and Amy go in season 3?

[@DanDawPoker]

PLEASE, im in the UK, and i don't use a VPN, is it my only option to watch this show in full? im very addicted to it but have no options to full episodes in the UK

[@bodybalanceU2]

emigrate to australia

[@CosmicValkyrie]

Surely the high seas are always available.

[@davidgilfillan1934]

It horrifies me that... this BS is completely true!!!

[@DrSardonicus]

I found myself nodding along with the Defence Budget deliberation. "We're proposing to spend $40B a year for 10 years to defend our trade routes with China, from China?" NODDERS. Makes sense, I guess. You are your worst enemy.

[@daleviker5884]

Exactly. It's a known fact that no two countries that have a trade relationship have EVER been in conflict.

[@leighmcmillan6282]

I ❤ Tony

[@alphaomega1089]

A good source of learning material: where did they go wrong on a public relations level?

[@chickenmonger123]

On China. Yeah. That actually makes a lot of sense. Considering the regime.

[@agrajyadav2951]

Better than the Roman regime

[@maushaus2792]

I agree with the comments below. I worked in the public service in different states in Australia and I just can’t watch it because it’s too real. It’s not a joke.

[@rudiklein]

I wish I had seen years before. These trades would've boosted my career. 😂

[@davidc9441]

This show has just got better and better

[@rodgerhempfing2921]

Our no1 trading partner will cut us off in a war scenario.

[@lindagatti7796]

So damn true of local government idiots who have no idea what their doing.

[@glenmale1748]

This was a documentary, not a comedy.

[@sylviaelse5086]

I never figured out what role Rhonda holds.

[@kparker2430]

PR for the premiers department?

[@sylviaelse5086]

@@kparker2430 Dunno. There's also Jim.

[@bodybalanceU2]

@@sylviaelse5086 that is her official title - have you watched the shows in full or just the YT clips

[@yogeshdhanorkar4679]

Where I can watch this masterpiece in India? Please help 😊

[@Ellen-ov9yc]

See if you can access ABC Iviewer

[@captainpoppleton]

You will need to have a password and answer a security question.

[@melissamarsh2219]

Netflix

[@robincray116]

On netflix its called Dreamland. There was too many other shows called Utopia.

[@CosmicValkyrie]

​@@captainpoppletonthey're all Sri Lankan names though.

[@izdotcarter]

Is this precedented?

[@DavidSimpson-dm9kf]

I can watch the clips & chuckle maybe but that's all. It is unfortunately TOO REAL.