![]() Not only can New Londoners see little floating bubbles that denote an individual’s class, but they can see through another person’s eyes whenever they choose. “No privacy” comes courtesy of a removable eye implant that looks like a contact lens crossed with a jelly fish let the squirmy tentacles attach to your retina, the cap cover your eye, and soon you’ll be connected to a live, local intranet, fittingly called Intra. The city-state only has three laws: No privacy, no family, and no monogamy. ![]() Such simplicity makes for seamless, gleaming utopia, so long as you don’t think too hard or feel too much. Days are for working in whatever job is assigned to you at birth. After all, there’s no obvious reason to be unhappy: Nights are for parties, dancing, and orgies. If they’re not, that’s what the soma is for. Everyone has their place, and everyone is happy in it. While the drug helps stabilize any emotional turbulence and keeps a peaceful, carefree society, it also makes you numb to life’s nuanced beauty and the drudgery of a worker bee existence. If you were to suffer a minor inconvenience or act out of turn, give yourself a dose of soma, and poof - you’re all good. In “Brave New World,” that drug is called soma and everyone in New London pops the pea-sized mood-changers like Pez. Altering the source material to better suit modern parallels while featuring a handful of excellent performances, showrunner David Wiener’s adaptation isn’t too serious to have a little fun, nor is it blind to the commonalities between a drug that renders you emotionally neutral and an era of nonstop TV that keeps viewers sedate, happy, and largely braindead. To be perfectly honest, “Brave New World” had its hooks in me before it went meta, but backing up the convictions inherent to its dark social satire with the choice to criticize its own part in the process certainly amped up my appreciation of this slick, beautiful production. ![]() But even if it’s not, they know it’s still a new thing (even though it’s based on an old thing), and as long as it’s not boring, people will keep watching, and if people keep watching, they’ll keep using Peacock, and the world will go round and round without anyone questioning the nature of this self-perpetuating hype cycle. “Brave New World” is definitely a new thing that Peacock’s masterminds are hoping is the next big thing. The horror! Moments like this invite a wry smile, as you realize the show isn’t just commenting on the modern world, but its own role within it. And then they’ll be alone with their thoughts.” And if it’s old, it’s boring, and if it’s boring, they will turn it off. It’s really just the old thing but more of it. ![]() “So, we give them a new thing: bigger, hotter, harder, faster - we have to give it to them like that because, if we don’t, they might realize that the new thing isn’t new at all. “They want the new thing because with every new thing there’s a chance it could be the big thing,” she says. 'The Continental' Producer Teases Hotel 'Easter Eggs' in Upcoming 'John Wick' Prequel SeriesĢ023 Emmy Predictions: Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series 'Succession' Review: Season 4 Premiere Draws the Sibs Back Into Daddy's Orbit - Spoilers About midway through the nine-episode first season, an artist named Wilhelmina (Hannah John-Kamen) - who replaces the character Helmhotz Watson from Huxley’s book - explains why she has to keep coming up with new pieces of party-starting entertainment, or “feelies,” for the citizens of New London to enjoy. Peacock, led by this serialized adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel, may be arriving during a rare rationing period, but it still represents consumers’ collective gluttony.Īnd “Brave New World” knows it. Peacock’s marquee launch title represents yet another new streaming service, and the “last” to arrive in a nine-month parade of platforms: Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, and one very expensive punchline have flooded the market with more TV shows than ever, and audiences are eagerly gobbling them up. For all the fog-filled, neon-lit orgies in “ Brave New World” - and believe me, there are quite a few - the new sci-fi series peaks when it’s giddily screwing with those watching, not watching people giddily– well, you know.
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