Brave New World boldly posits that neither those in "our" world - represented by the Savage Land, evocative of a poor southwestern town lost in time - nor those in New London have things figured out.īrave New World the TV series wisely emphasizes Huxley's best ideas, disposes the worst, and mixes in its own. Not a lot has changed since 1932: We are still petty, jealous, and beholden to things that cause us grief. Independent of its source material and contemporaries, the TV version is still a compelling drama that effortlessly pokes and prods at us meaty humans in 2020. It's disappointing that it falls short.īut Brave New World isn't a lost cause. That Brave New World is heralded by book critics for originality and studied in classrooms means the TV show had an awful lot to live up to. Even Alden Ehrenreich's John bears a resemblance to Chris Pratt's Star-Lord from the Marvel movies, down to an attachment to music players with orange ear pads. So it's unfortunate in how the show bears similarities to the likes of Westworld (a theme resort with a native uprising) and The Hunger Games (class warfare, gaudy fashions). It is a giant, as referenced and parodied as George Orwell's 1984. NBCīrave New World remains one of the most influential sci-fi novels today. After Lenina and Bernard return home, John becomes a celebrity who wrestles with fame and culture shock as the three enter a love triangle that threatens to undo the balance of the new world.Īlden Ehrenreich (left) stars in 'Brave New World' as "John," a native of the Savage Lands who escapes to New London and becomes a celebrity. But when the natives revolt, the two are sheltered by John (Alden Ehrenreich), a savage whose mother (Demi Moore) spent his childhood filling his head with tall tales about his father, New London's most important man. But outside New London, "savages" live life in the old way, with monogamy, natural birth, and music with words.īernard Marx, an "Alpha" who never feels like one, takes a trip with Lenina (Findlay) to the "Savage Lands," where New Londoners entertain themselves spectating "primitives" in ghastly old practices, like weddings. Abundant sex and stimulants, primarily the mood upper "soma" that is dispensed like candy, make up any given Tuesday. Segmented by class, the civilized revel in knowing what, and who, everyone does. 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.
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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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