I had an idea for a TV show--Dystopia.  Every episode would be a different dystopian society.

I don't know why, but I love dystopia stories.  Is it that something is very wrong with the society, but everyone acts normal?  Is it because every dystopia is someone's plan for the future gone to the extreme?

Maybe I'm just longing for an ancient era of television.  I kind of put the Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Star Trek into a similar category.  I know you probably think I'm crazy but lumping in Hitchcock with the other two, but what he managed to do so effectively with plot twists in otherwise ordinary stories, I think were things Twilight Zone and Start Trek tried to achieve--the element of mystery and suspense.
I don't know, but there is plenty of fodder for ideas.  I like what the game Bioshock did with Ayn Rand's utopia from Atlas Shrugged.  Another thing to keep in mind is that these Dystopias don't have to be global or large-scale societies like Oceania in 1984.  It could be towns like Hildale, Utah.  I think the entire arch of the series could be a federal agent who goes across the country investigating small towns with unusual governments that happen to be breaking the law or violating the constitution.

A number of examples:

• A rural community where slavery is still practiced.  The slaves even "volunteer" at an early age and later find themselves unable to escape.
• A hippie commune that was peaceful until they started getting too many visitors.
• A town where the official form of government is anarchy.
• A survivalists' settlement where people believe the Y2K crisis happened to be as bad as people were predicting and think that reports to the contrary are just government propaganda.
• A communist city in the United States setup by the former Soviet Union.

The hard part isn't getting ideas, though.  The hard part is writing plots that keep the stories interesting.  It could be very easy for every episode to be the same:
The agent shows up.  The locals are hostile to him.  The agent explains how he found their town and that the FBI is waiting to hear back from him.  If the town doesn't cooperate, the feds will be "crawling all over this place".  The rest of the episode is just the agent marveling at how weird or wrong the society is and sending people to jail.
Again, that's what I want to avoid.  Of course, it would be easy to avoid just by never doing anything else with these ideas.
whatever.

Another idea--a society where everyone is apathetic as I pretend to be on my blog.