![]() So, is it correct to even call Brave New World a dystopian story? In adapting the novel, Wiener says it was important to him and his team to acknowledge that stories of dystopia and speculative fiction “come with this whole set of tropes.” And “instead of trying to dismiss them,” they wanted to figure out “how can we take those tropes that are familiar and do them in a deliciously weird way?” Wiener adds, “Huxley was so concerned that people would become so stimulated through sex or so numb through drugs or so distracted by media and entertainment that they wouldn’t look inside themselves or look outside themselves in an uncomfortable way” and that “our story of dystopia is the dystopia that this place makes inside people.” There, the weather always appears to be dark and gloomy, perhaps because the government rulers feel zero culpability in publicly maiming, torturing, and killing their citizens in the name of what they believe to be the greater good. “I guess we are a utopian show, in that it’s about a utopia,” showrunner and creator David Wiener says of what sets his adaptation of author Aldous Huxley’s prescient 1932 novel apart from its more obviously anxiety-producing, dystopian TV brethren like Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle. ![]() Here, it’s nothing but a life-sized, sparkling clean terrarium of beiges, silvers, and whites that shimmer under a sunny skyline. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this futuristic society, our modern-day concerns like privacy and monogamy are done for-and everyone better be happy about it.īut then, like a visual double-dose of Xanax, the warning labels give way to a world of genetically coded humans living and working inside what is known as New London. The opening moments of the new Peacock series Brave New World are bleak.Īnd by that I mean that they’re literally just white text on a black screen that forces the audience to understand and accept the Terms and Conditions of this show’s new world order. ![]()
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