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".
@@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.
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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😮
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
@@freakmoister the one constantly threatening all of Asia mercantile interest is China with their constant shows of force and outrageous territorial claims The idea is silly, but we live in a silly world where one of the biggest commercial countries is constantly antagonizing all their trade partners
@@freakmoister Oh, you're one of those "socialists good, everybody else bad types"? In 1910, Germany's biggest trading partners were Great Britain and Russia. If it's ok with you, I'd like Australia to be prepared for all types of eventualities.
Yes indeed. HR is Ron Swanson without any of the wisdom, charm, or meat products. So HR is basically stubborn irritation that would work all day if it meant nothing got done.
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
there certainly is a fine line between stupid and clever completely lost on our governmetn plebs which is why this is both funny and depressing...The elevator bike scene where he get called "agressive" for slightly raising his voice has been played out on myself. An adult telling another adult to calm down for injecting any emotion into his words would get you laughed out of the room anywhere else but not in the HR policed environment.
Trading partner one is misleading. Even if China is the number one trading partner, you don’t want it to take over the routes and be the only trading partner US can really on, that could become a military threat.
I've no full episodes of this show, only clips and compilations. And I fail to see comedy. It hits way too close to home. It's not satire, it's reality.
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. 😂
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!
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!
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.
@@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.
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".
I felt the same about The Office. That's why I've never seen it.
@@SenseiEpuI painfully watched my way through the entirety of the Office…
Such a good story
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.
@@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.
"they're the experts"
"where do we fit in"
"you don't"
lol
"Never attribute to malice, what can be adequately be explained by stupidity."
Or old fashioned greed.
Case in point. I didnt take your comment personally. I just think your too stupid to get a jargon file quote correct.
@@Hraefncin Nah, getting caught being greedy is stupid.
Hamlin's Razor, does explain government quite well actually
@@taherelm277 Think you mean Hanlon's Razor, but I definitely agree
I really want this series to end with Tony calmly telling each of these people exactly what he thinks of them.
As they're sitting smuggly in Blofeld chairs above the shark tank?
Particularly Rhonda and Jim. I get the feeling only Natalie would escape
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.
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
Love the last one! "Protecting our trade with China, from China".
It's not the trade that's the problem (though that is one;) it's the CCP's regional ambitions.
@@nicholassmith7984 that has absolutely nothing to do with the scene or the comedic value.
@@nicholassmith7984 Not fair. You're obviously one of the show's writers.
As near to perfect as satire can be!
@@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.
Best line: 'To search Asians for food.' Well, it made me LOL.
That really is 90% of the show 😂
I had to pause to compose myself.
Almost missed that.
Freakin hilarious cos it's true.
I would not wanna raise tensions.
Where?
In this room.
ROFL!
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.
Good call, I missed that too! 😂😂
I just noticed it now, watching the video for the umpteenth time.
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.
So so true. You said exactly what I wanted to say.😂😅
There was a British Show from the 70's that did the same thing in their context. "Yes, Minister"
@@paulbryce492 Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister were both brilliant TV programmes. Very funny but sadly too true as well.
I’m a long-standing yes minister fan…I always say this is yes minister for the 21st century!
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.
"Oh f you all...."
Very common these days on Zoom (muted hopefully)
Not if there’s also an Auslan interpreter 😂
@@Alex-dz2etPretty sure any Aussie interpreter would do the same.
@@NickJohnCoop what do you think an Auslan interpreter is?
In my case, not every time, and anyway my face gives it away.
Why is there a sign language interpreter ? Nobody in the meeting is deaf, I think?
Tony represents the audience 😆
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.
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.
“What is this, QandA?” LMAOOO
I lost it!
I work for the national parks and wildlife service and this is hauntingly accurate
Jim: Can I just have a couple of squares ...
Tony: No!
Maybe off to the side, a circle!
Makes you want to laugh and cry at the same time
Poor poor taxpayers
There was a British Show from the 70's that did the same thing in their context. "Yes, Minister"
80s
That show was very popular in Australia too.
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.
Remember it well. Very popular in Oz. Evolved into "Yes Prime Minister." Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphry Appleby was amazing.
I loved both Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister they were hilarious but sadly also too real.
It's a pity that we can't watch this great show in Europe. I would pay for it.
It’s live in a country where you live 😂
May I offer the reddit piracy megathread as a solution?
@@Sequence0_Paradox nah
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😮
I hate that I know these people - I hate how close Working Dog can nail the absurdity. But they are the best out there.
1.00
"Warnie"
"How do you spell it?"
😂
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
I've had subordinates do this. I was supervising security...
“Not built by the government”😂😂😂
Great writing and casting! Working Dog, always a level above in creativity!
To search asians for food 😭😂
Great line.
"so we are spending 30 billion dollars a year to protect our trade with China from China !?" It never gets old that line.
The way the woman in white chokes on her coffee when the younger woman says, "Eight." ☕ 😂
Ashan is crazy to be the only person who knows Chaminda Vaas' full name
You know what, at least we can laugh about it, we are not missing our great sense of humour
how do you know you laugh at the right thing. I for one, find this series horrifying and very stressful.
I’m so glad I found this show 😂
Has he unplugged it? Oh yeah, he has.
Hahahahahaha, poor Hughie
I need this is in the US
Hard hitting documentaries. Love it!
this show is epic
The sign translator when she curses😭
I loved that show.
I wish I could stream this in the UK somehow!
VPN
Scene at 6:50 had me crying, this is way too real
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.
@@danielschegh9695 by the time they deliver sufficient fighters, complete training, test runs, combat exercises, it will be obsolete
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...
@@p1rp568 income/ expense writeoff. non issue lol
@@danielschegh9695 oh god at least we got our first couple into the country in 2017, our submarines meanwhile....
Aussie Gold.
I love Nat. She really, really really wants to tell people to......go away.
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.
We should probably visit you! 😂😂
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.
This show makes me want to laugh out loud whilst simultaneously want to kill myself.
What a great show so funny and real.
If you like this, you'll love Rick Mayall in "the new statesman"
Spot on! well done WDP
Can we get this on in the UK?
I used to watch “Outsourced!” We had a team in India and it was so funny
Our no1 trading partner will cut us off in a war scenario.
A good source of learning material: where did they go wrong on a public relations level?
I wish I had seen years before. These trades would've boosted my career. 😂
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 :(
use a vpn
A national birthday center sounds wicked
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.
nebulous wish list. pure gold.
Best best best laugh a minute reality show ever 🍻🕺
Brilliant!
Help me!
I need to know where to watch ALL the episodes of this show.
Netflix or ABC's IVIEW
@@geoffgeorge805 Cheers!
Its called dreamland on Netflix
@@robincray116 Thanks, but can't see it under either title. My Netflix is NZ based, maybe that's got something to do with it...??
The show is Utopia
On China. Yeah. That actually makes a lot of sense. Considering the regime.
Better than the Roman regime
Genius! Exactly whats happening with the world!
Brilliant
That last but a bout china is so accurate and sad. Our money spent on things we dont need to but spent on countries we have no dealings with
Where can you watch it
I ❤ Tony
I can't find this streaming anywhere and I want to watch it.
Netflix or ABCiview.
I can watch the clips & chuckle maybe but that's all. It is unfortunately TOO REAL.
This show has just got better and better
Could be the fire service.
Rhonda is freaking annoying...love her
Help! I live in the US but i really want to watch this show. Anyone have a solution?
VPN
fmhy
Where I can watch this masterpiece in India? Please help 😊
See if you can access ABC Iviewer
You will need to have a password and answer a security question.
Netflix
On netflix its called Dreamland. There was too many other shows called Utopia.
@@captainpoppletonthey're all Sri Lankan names though.
So damn true of local government idiots who have no idea what their doing.
On the last clip, the hypocrisy made sense for once, China IS the biggest treat to China's trade
Oh you’re one of the nodding heads 😂
@@freakmoister the one constantly threatening all of Asia mercantile interest is China with their constant shows of force and outrageous territorial claims
The idea is silly, but we live in a silly world where one of the biggest commercial countries is constantly antagonizing all their trade partners
@@freakmoister Oh, you're one of those "socialists good, everybody else bad types"? In 1910, Germany's biggest trading partners were Great Britain and Russia. If it's ok with you, I'd like Australia to be prepared for all types of eventualities.
Yes indeed. HR is Ron Swanson without any of the wisdom, charm, or meat products.
So HR is basically stubborn irritation that would work all day if it meant nothing got done.
So Carsten is responsible for 'Border Force'? Makes sense, that explains a lot.
How do I watch this in the USA?
VPN? its on abc iview
I never figured out what role Rhonda holds.
PR for the premiers department?
@@kparker2430 Dunno. There's also Jim.
@@sylviaelse5086 that is her official title - have you watched the shows in full or just the YT clips
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
emigrate to australia
Surely the high seas are always available.
OBVIOUSLY WRITTEN YESTERDAY.
I'M LEAVING AUSTRALIA FOR FIGI.
AT LEAST THEY LOCK THEIR POLLIES UP THERE........
Lee Daniel Rodriguez Matthew Taylor James
Gold
This is totally unrealistic, will have to go back to the drawing board. The BMW is using their blinker.
This is really close to the UK series “Yes Minister”. A comedy that is waaaaaay too close to the truth.
no "the hollowmen" is more in line with YM/YPM as that is about the aussie pm and the dickhead advisors surrounding him
I looove how British actors actually look like normal humans you could encounter anywhere
They're Australian
that's australian green and gold my friend and don't you forget it :)
obviously australians are the normal humans you could encounter anywhere
@@kparker2430 yes Bill ! lol
there certainly is a fine line between stupid and clever completely lost on our governmetn plebs which is why this is both funny and depressing...The elevator bike scene where he get called "agressive" for slightly raising his voice has been played out on myself. An adult telling another adult to calm down for injecting any emotion into his words would get you laughed out of the room anywhere else but not in the HR policed environment.
Trading partner one is misleading. Even if China is the number one trading partner, you don’t want it to take over the routes and be the only trading partner US can really on, that could become a military threat.
Something says u might be an American
GOSH DARN!! I have yellow fever D:
I've no full episodes of this show, only clips and compilations. And I fail to see comedy.
It hits way too close to home. It's not satire, it's reality.
Just amazingly hilarious as I retire after working 44, yrs in an office with real woke prats like this 😅
I will only return to the ABC for comedy. I’m unaware of any atm. ..
Hard Quiz?
this show really stresses me out
This thing seems excellent, why can't we watch it in France ?
I mean... 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
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. 😂
Its so Sri Lankan names 😂
“Lets go with Warnie”
“How do you spell that?”
It’s more of a documentary 👍🏼🤣
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!
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!
I try to follow them out, it's hilarious.
As someone with an Asian mother in law, VERY accurate!
Please!!!!! How do I watch this show in North America!!!!!! Does anybody know???? VPN?????
Netflix. In US it’s called Dreamland
Google 7 Best VPNs to watch Stan abroad... good luck
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.
@@melissamarsh2219 It's not. Or at least not anymore
@@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.
This was a documentary, not a comedy.