“But the minute you scratch the surface, you start to discover stuff.”
“It seems perfect,” said Jessica Brown Findlay, who plays the geneticist Lenina Crowne. Based on Aldous Huxley’s alarmingly prescient 1932 novel of free love and social control, it’s a dystopia dressed up as a utopia.
All nine episodes are available on Wednesday. Pop quiz: Is this a paradise? Or a prison?Īnswer: It’s the social science backdrop for “Brave New World,” the flagship drama from Peacock, NBC’s streaming service. Everyone has useful work, perfect skin, total emotional equilibrium. Science has conquered disease and disability. Crime is a nonissue, as are homelessness and hunger. Imagine a society that has solved the problems of overpopulation and environmental collapse.
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