It is engaging and provoking thanks to its rich source material, lively performances, and smart decisions about plotting, world-building, and art direction. " Brave New World finds relevance almost a hundred years after its publishing in an adaptation deserving of its stature. The understated yet striking aesthetic is reminiscent of Gattaca, a movie clearly inspired by Brave New World's genetics anxiety that also used vaguely retro-futuristic design to make its sci-fi predictions feel both timely and timeless." -Richard Trenholm, CNET "As in many sci-fi shows, the production design does a lot of the heavy lifting, subtly immersing you in the beautiful, but vacant society. Pop some soma and see what critics are saying below. John comes back to New London with them and threatens to disrupt the lethargic peace that exists in this sedated future. Showrun by David Wiener ( Homecoming), Brave New World is about Bernard Marx (Lloyd) and Lenina Crowne (Brown Findlay), a pair of New Londoners who meet John the Savage (Ehrenreich) during a vacation to the Savage Lands. Indeed, the show is drawing comparisons to Andrew Niccol's Gattaca and HBO's Westworld, two projects that almost certainly derived aspects of their rather bleak futures from Huxley's 1932 novel.Ĭritics are particularly gravitating towards the series' aesthetic (that quietly draws the viewer into "the beautiful, but vacant society") and its leads played by Jessica Brown Findlay, Harry Lloyd, Alden Ehrenreich, Hannah John-Kamen, and Demi Moore. Rather than depict a society stifled under the pressure of authoritarianism, Huxley presented a utopian-ish world so zonked out and sexed-up, that it didn't need to think about straying from the accepted norm.īut does that premise properly translate into the television adaptation coming to Peacock?Īccording to the first reviews, Brave New World (premiering with NBC's streaming service July 15) is an audacious piece of entertainment that refines its source material for maximum relevancy. Like George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a seminal piece of dystopian fiction.
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