Utopia spoilers follow.

Amazon's remake of the Channel 4 series Utopia has landed at both the most appropriate and inappropriate time. The series, adapted by Gone Girl's Gillian Flynn, includes the threat of a global flu pandemic and, because it's 2020, it had to come with a disclaimer warning viewers that it was a work of fiction.

But the series is about a lot more than just the threat of a deadly virus. At the centre of its first season is Utopia itself, a graphic novel which holds the secrets of the world's impending doom.

In season one, we discovered that both Utopia and its protagonist Jessica Hyde (Sasha Lane) are real as she teamed up with reluctant helpers Sam (RIP), Ian, Becky, Wilson and Grant to find Utopia and solve the puzzle hidden inside it.

But their search for the book and its answers also led them to Dr Kevin Christie (John Cusack), the CEO of a pharmaceutical company whose plans for the world go far beyond creating a sustainable meat substitute.

Flynn has already confirmed she's working on season two of Utopia, although Amazon is yet to officially announce a second season. But with season one's finale leaving us with more questions than answers, Digital Spy is here to share everything we know about season two and our predictions.

It seems surreal to write that the future of Utopia is up in the air due to a pandemic, but it really is. The first season wrapped filming in October 2019, a year before it aired on Amazon.

Given the scale of the production and the impact of Covid-19 on schedules across the board, we're probably looking at 2022 at the earliest for a second season.

It's safe to assume most of the main cast who survived the finale will return for season two, including the following:

In the season one finale, Arby turned his back on Dr Christie and delivered him (wrapped in duct tape) to Jessica, Wilson, Grant, Ian, Becky and Alice. This looked to be the end for Cusack's character but incredibly, he made it out alive (despite losing his thumb).

Early in the finale, it seemed clear that Christie was Mr Rabbit (he had the tattoo on his side, after all). His plan was to spread a deadly virus while profiting off a vaccine that didn't work. But as the episode went on, his true masterplan was revealed.

The virus that had been spreading through school children is not the actual threat. Instead, it's the vaccine which carries a "world-improving omnivirus" that will not kill but sterilise the population, stopping human reproduction for the next three generations. Christie explained that he believes he is "curing" the world by solving the problem of overpopulation while "saving ourselves from ourselves".

Knowing they must destroy the vaccine before it's delivered en masse across America, Ian Becky, Grant and Alice headed to Christie Labs, while Jessica left to go to Home with Arby, who had discovered his true purpose was to help her. That left Wilson on his own with Christie, with his plan being to record him confessing to all his evils.

But while Wilson had always been the group's biggest conspiracy theorist and the most untrustworthy of the big corporations, he began to come around to his way of thinking when he was left alone with Christie.

As Christie refused to follow Wilson's orders, he appeared to convince him that his plan was actually good for the world. The next we saw them, they were in a car together with Christie now free, having converted a new disciple.

Wilson then picked up Becky, who got into the car and was shocked to see Christie and his son Thomas working alongside Wilson. As they drove off, Christie seemed to have a hunch about where Jessica had disappeared to.

Meanwhile, Grant found himself apprehended by police, after being framed for a mass shooting, while Ian and Alice ended the series very much alive but separated from their group and on the run.

As for Jessica, her season one ending offered another unexpected twist as she followed Arby to Home. Arriving at Christie farms, Jessica went inside her former house, finding her old room with her initials still on the headboard of her bed.

Weakened after being bitten by one of the lab rabbits, Jessica went to lie down, but was woken by Agent Milner. In that moment, it's revealed that he's not a helpful Homeland Agent, after all. Instead, she's intent on capturing Jessica.

And what's more, she had the same symbols as Christie tattooed on her side, leaving us wondering if Mr Rabbit was in fact her all along.

As Jessica tried to escape, she realised she was trapped and threw Utopia out the window. But it was never Utopia that Milner was after, it was Jessica herself, whose back is revealed to be covered in symbols which presumably spell out the key to viruses created by her father.

And in a shocking final twist, Milner headed to the basement, where it was revealed Jessica's father is still alive and looks to be working on a follow-up to Utopia.

Speaking to RadioTimes.com, Flynn described season one's ending as "a very deliberate sort of cliffhanger".

Confirming that work was already under way on season two, Flynn added: "We already are just dipping into season two. And I've told everyone, the world is open, let's see what we want to do."

With so many cliffhangers and swerves in the season one finale, Flynn is certainly left with a lot of directions she can go in.

One of the most pressing questions concerns Milner, who admitted to previously being aligned with Christie.

Speaking to Variety, Flynn said she wanted to leave it to the audience to debate whether Jessica's father was being kept against his will by Milner or for his safety. And with the reveal that Milner also has the tattoo on her side, any certainty about Mr Rabbit's identity has been blown out of the water.

In an interview with IndieWire, Flynn also revealed she wanted to move beyond the pandemic storyline in season two.

"Personally, I like shows that move on and move forward in general," Flynn said. "Aside from whether I want to deal with the current pandemic [in season two], I want the show to move on and go to different objectives."

However, with Christie having made it out alive and finding a new ally in Wilson, it seems unlikely he's going to be walking into the sunset and giving up on his plans to curb the population.

But with the vaccine seemingly destroyed and Stearns leaving Chicago with an egg which holds the last remnants of the virus, he may have to find another way to execute his plan.

Unfortunately, not even Dr Kevin Christie would have the means to bring us a Utopia season two trailer as soon as we'd like it. With the second season mostly likely over a year away, we'll be lucky to get any new footage before the end of 2021.

Utopia season one is available to watch now on Amazon Prime Video.

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