The plot of the series is broadly faithful to the novel, with the biggest change being the elevation of Lenina to a main character. John's rebellious nature influences John and Lenina and threatens to undermine the whole structure of the society. The savage ways appeal to Bernard and Lenina, but then they get caught up in a violent uprising against the park's New World overlords, and are rescued by John the Savage (Ehrenreich) and his mother Linda (Moore), who travel back to New London with them. They travel together to the Savage Lands, a theme park (in the book it was a reservation) where they observe the way society used to be when there was monogamy and want and crime and that kind of bad old stuff. Two of them are Lenina Crowne ( Downton Abbey's Jessica Brown Findlay), a Beta Plus scientist who desires to be monogamous, and Bernard Marx ( Game of Thrones' Harry Lloyd), an Alpha Plus bureaucrat who's unhappy with his place in the system. The people who do question the status quo are seen as troublemakers. NBC Peacock Trailers: All the Original Shows and Movies Available on Launch Day It's a dystopia where people are docile and pacified and have everything provided for them, so they have no need or inclination to question the status quo.
And monogamy is prohibited, so everyone is sexually available to everyone else, while families don't exist, as children are born in laboratories and raised by social conditioning teams. Any time anyone experiences any kind of emotional disturbance, they pop a soma - a happy pill to keep them regulated - which they take constantly.
Society is peaceful and stable, because everyone has accepted their assigned class role, with Alpha Pluses running things at the top of the pyramid and drone-like Epsilons providing labor. It's set in a future where things are supposedly perfect. If you read Brave New World, it was probably a long time ago, perhaps in high school, and you may forget some of the details of what it's about. But in practice, it's an example of how many things have to go right to make a successful show, and Brave New World has too many parts out of place, with the most vital part - an interpretation of Huxley's themes that would have made the show relevant to today - missing entirely. It's an expensive dystopian sci-fi drama series with prestigious source material (Aldous Huxley's classic 1932 novel), a cast that features movie stars past (special guest star Demi Moore) and present ( Solo's Alden Ehrenreich), and copious HBO-style sex. Brave New World is the new streaming service Peacock's flagship launch show.
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