History Series / UtopiaFalls

In the future, the city of New Babyl exists after a long ago war devastated Earth and wiped out life outside it. To protect denizens, a shield completely surrounds the city and no one can venture outside it. Divided into four sectors called Natura, Progress, Industry and Reform, it's ruled over by a body named the Tribunal.

* HasTwoMommies: Sage and her little sister were raised by two women, Gran Riel and Gran Chyra, after losing their biological parents. It's implied but not shown explicitly that they're a couple.

* WorkoutFanservice: The good-looking, athletic young people on the show are frequently shown practicing dance (or for Sage, capoeira) while in workout clothes that show their torsos and legs in tight fabric, their stomachs often [[BareYourMidriff partly bared]] too.

* MsFanservice: While all of the girls have moments wearing more revealing clothes, Brooklyn gets the most with outfits that show off her cleavage and [[BareYourMidriff bare stomach]].

* BareYourMidriff: Several of the girls' outfits, while practicing dance or not, show their stomachs.

** So much was apparently lost as a result of the war that in the future no one, even young black people, knows that hip-hop is at first.

** Aliyah, the lead character, is a budding musician has nearly the identical name to a [[Music/{{Aaliyah}} famous singer]] (who was also black, like her). It's also the word for Jewish immigration back to Israel, which could echo her rediscovery of the past.

* ProudBeauty: Brooklyn clearly knows just how attractive she is, tossing back her hair back and sticking her chest out while boldly strutting into rooms. This turns Sage's head, and Brooklyn realizes she's interested as a result.

* ProudBeauty: Brooklyn clearly knows just how attractive she is, tossing back her hair back and sticking her chest out while boldly strutting into rooms.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Brooklyn first appears when she comes late to a class, casually apologizing without being concerned. She's soon confirmed to be a bold, confident person, quite unlike her much quiet, shy LoveInterest Sage.

* NonHeteronormativeSociety

* CastingGag: Music/SnoopDogg plays The Archive's voice, a digital library that includes many styels of music (including his own). At one point it recommends his work. Given The Archive, among many other things, stores music from our era, it may be using his voice too.

* DreamCrushingHandicap: Apollo is a budding musician, but after being hit by the shield he's left in a coma and has become deaf on waking up. However, it turns out he can still play piano, but with greater difficulty since he never learned to read music and just played by ear before. This is subverted as he learns to play using one hand on the instrument, hearing its vibrations as a guide.

** Apollo learns that the Indigenous drumming he sees has been passed down to him by his father, but never knew until then of his heritage, realizing from this that he's descended from them.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: At first, New Babyl appears to be a nice city with people of all races in harmony together, wearing brightly colored clothing and a thriving cultural scene in the Exemplar, an annual artistic competition. Before long though, it's revealed they have a caste-like social system, and a repressive government which strictly controls things. [[spoiler:People have also been lied to since the city began about the outside world, and many "disappear" regularly if they cross the government.]]
* CulturePolice: New Babyl's government is very suspicious about any new style of dance or music. Aliyah and Bodhi were interrogated for performing hip-hop by the police as it's potentially subverive in their view.

* {{Dystopia}}: New Babyl is a city where everyone lives in a sector based on profession. While they believe diversity is their greatest strength, with people of all races living in harmony together, any independent personal expression isn't acceptable, deemed subversive and a cause for disunity you will be interrogated over by the Authority, the city's SecretPolice who censor culture. Moving outside of the city's bounds or seeking knowledge about the past too is forbidden. They all wear uniform jumpsuits most of the time, and have a very authoritarian culture with ritual submission to their long-deceased founder Gaia, who's treated as almost like a god. Particularly defiant dissidents are given UnPerson treatment, or “ghosted”. They also practice eugenics, as people who have DNA deemed “unfit for reproduction” are also labeled “dissonant” by the government, all babies being tested at birth, and prohibited from having children. The dissonant also get assigned work, usually dangerous things like mining, due to being deemed “expendable” after turning 18. [[spoiler:Finally, it turns out that the governrment has lied for centuries to its people about the outside world being uninhabitable-it actually is, with two other cities, one of which secretly controls them.]]

** Apollo learns that the Indigenous drumming he sees has been passed down to him by his father, but never knew until then of his heritage, realizing from this that he's been descended from them.

* MsFanservice: While of the girls have moments wearing more revealing clothes, Brooklyn gets the most with outfits that show off her cleavage and [[BareYourMidriff bare stomach]].

In the future, the city of New Babyl exists after a long ago war devastated Earth and wiped out life outside it. To protect denizens, a shield completely surrounds the city and no one can venture outside it. Divided into four secret called Natura, Progress, Industry and Reform, it's ruled over by a body named the Tribunal.

* TheWallAroundTheWorld: New Babyl is (supposedly) the last inhabited city on Earth, with a shield protecting its residents from the danger of the ruined outside world that surrounds it completely. [[spoiler:It's in fact keeping people inside however.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Aliyah's father Gerald is on the Tribunal, New Babyl's ruling council. As a result, she's gotten a lot of strings pulled in her favor over the years, including release from [[SecretPolice the Authority]]'s custody while detained for suspected subversion. Not that Aliyah's done anything bad, or even asked for this-her dad just does it anyway.

* ParentalAbandonment: Tempo was raised a "creche", apparently a place that raises children collectively, so he's never known his parents. [[spoiler:Later it turns out Phydra is his mother, and she had his father "[[UnPerson ghosted]]" as he abandoned them.]]

* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Shy, reserved Sage is slowly drawn into a romance with bold, tomboyish Brooklyn during the first season.

* LandOfOneCity: New Babyl is one city and its environs, all that's left on Earth.

* FantasticCasteSystem: People in New Babyl are divided through sectors, different regions of the city representing occupations where they live together. Additionally they also wear different colored uniform jumpsuits to distinguish them. The four sectors are Progress (blue, the scientists), Industry (the (industrial workers, wearing orange), Nature (green, horticulturalists) and Reform (mostly criminals undergoing rehabilitation, with gray). The government appears to be run by the Tribunal, a body with members from each.

* DreamCrushingHandicap: Tempo is a budding musician, but after being hit by the shield he's left in a coma and has become deaf on waking up. However, it turns out he can still play piano, but with greater difficulty since he never learned to read music and just played by ear before. This is subverted as he learns to play using one hand on the instrument, hearing its vibrations as a guide.

* ApocalypseHow: All life on Earth has been wiped out except for the city of New Babyl as a result of a war. An event called the “Great Flash” was included, implying nuclear weapons were used. [[spoiler:Or at least so they've been told.]]

When citizens turn 16, they can try out for an annual performing arts festival called the Exemplar. The series focuses on a group of these competitors plus a few others. The discovery of an ancient repository hidden outside the city named The Archive opens many of their eyes to a forgotten past and causes upheavel in their society.

* FantasticCasteSystem: People in New Babyl are divided through sectors, different regions of the city representing occupations where they live together. Additionally they also wear different colored uniform jumpsuits to distinguish them. The four sectors are Progress (blue, the scientists), Industry (the (industrial workers, wearing orange), Nature (green, horticulturalists) and Reform (mostly criminals undergoing rehabilitation, with gray). The government appears to be run by the Tribunal, a body with members from each.