![]() ![]() In the future of New London, society is maintained by too many drugs, not enough privacy, and a strict pecking order. It comes as NBC's big bet in its new streaming service, Peacock. 'Brave New World' is a new series adaptation of Aldous Huxley's novel of the same name. ![]() Even in an opportune moment ( Westworld is a baffling mess and The Mandalorian, arguably the biggest serial sci-fi hit in the last year, was effectively a Western), Brave New World is too familiar - in style, story, and characterization - to live up to trailblazing source text. It's an overall fantastic show and should be celebrated for doing the impossible, all without any corny 21st-century updates like replacing "Oh, Ford!" with "Oh, Apple!"īut, and maybe it's because of the book's irremovable influence on pop culture over the last 90 years, Brave New World fails to differentiate from television's numerous other science fictions. It also has enough sex and nudity to make Game of Thrones look modest, but the show's ruminations on freedom, identity, and colonialism still permeate its nine episodes just as they do in Huxley's original text. ![]() The good news is that Brave New World, from David Wiener (Amazon's Homecoming), leaves the titanic book's ideas intact, with a handful of liberties to suit 2020. Finally, the book that either excited you or put you to sleep in high school gets the lavish, and long overdue, 21st-century adaptation. Welcome to Brave New World, a new show based on Aldous Huxley's 1932 science fiction novel and NBC's first big bet with its Peacock streaming service. "Your colleagues have every right to Henry Foster as much as you do." Bernard accuses Lenina of withholding herself and Henry from, well, everyone. He struggles to say "monogamous." It hangs like a vulgar cuss one tries not to say over tea. "I can never seem to wrap around my head around the, um, selfishness," says Bernard, played by a wormy Harry Lloyd. Lenina is having a meeting with her boss because she's not having enough sex with enough people. Immediately, she's bombarded by images of her having hair-raising sex with a colleague, Henry Foster (Sen Mitsuji). Lenina, a "Beta Plus" played by Jessica Brown Findlay, is called into her boss Bernard Marx's (Harry Lloyd) office. Brave New World begins with the most unusual HR meeting. ![]()
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