Indeed, much of this series will feel familiar to fans of speculative sci-fi media. David Lee’s production design balances crisp technofuturism with dusty and gritty outside worlds while making them feel like they share the same planet, just like he did for HBO’s Watchmen. We are immediately struck by how beautiful the worlds of the series are. The series takes great license with the original work, so this won’t be on schools’ remote learning curriculum, but Huxley’s original concepts remain intact.

It’s this revelation that will eventually bring about the downfall of inner and outer worlds. As they work to help each other escape back to New London, they soon discover their connection runs deeper than they know. Amongst these is our hero, the still tiresomely named John the Savage ( Alden Ehrenreich) and his mother Linda ( Demi Moore).ĭuring Lenina and Bernard’s visit, a band of armed rebels incite a conflict that wounds Bernard and causes the four to become entangled. The Savage Lands are inhabited by rebellious outcasts, humans who have not been culturally and/or biologically accepted into New London.

The Savage Lands of Peacock’s Brave New World are a Westworld-type of living a museument park with three human zoos, each exhibiting the “barbarities”of the past: crime, consumerism, and selfishness/monogamy. After something traumatic disturbs their idyllic worldview, the pair decide to leave New London and visit The Savage Lands. She strikes up a friendship with psychologist Bernard Marx ( Harry Lloyd) as she tries to figure out why she feels out of sorts. We open with Lenina Crowne ( Jessica Brown Findlay), a worker who’s become disenchanted with polyamory.

Everyone is happy, and their happiness is controlled and monitored through tiny “pills” called soma (any flashbacks to English class yet?). There is no privacy, no family, and no monogamy. In the near-distant future, the world population has been controlled by artificial birth and stratified into rigid biologically determined classes. The world in Peacock’s forthcoming television adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World feels shimmering and new, but there isn’t enough bravery to make it anything revolutionary. As we round the corner and begin to face 2021, the image of what the new post-pandemic world will be like is still hazing.

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