‘Gone Girl` author Gillian Flynn takes her paranoia to television
(WorldNews Entertainment)

Gillian Flynn grew up surrounded by comics. Her father, a film professor and an avid comic book collector, would spend weekends taking her to flea markets and garage sales, explaining the various eras and artists she should know, which strip was loosely based on a Ray Bradbury story, and so on. Keep this in mind as you watch ‘Utopia`, the pulpy action thriller that marks Flynn`s debut as a television showrunner, after making her name writing psychological page-turners like ‘Gone Girl` and ‘Sharp Objects`. Premiering on Amazon, the show is a rollicking, Dickensian adventure story about a troupe of wide-eyed comic book nerds who think a long lost strip contains the keys to saving humanity from...