![]() ![]() ![]() The concept is one of societal need, meaning that your personal existence is of no value. In this futuristic vision, there are three main tenets of existence in New London: No Privacy, No Family, No Monogamy. READ MORE: The 60 Most Anticipated TV Shows Of 2020 Peacock is checking off some boxes early. Apparently, every streaming service needs a few bloated dramas that could be half as long too. Even worse, it’s a show that’s just too thin on storytelling to justify its length. Like the worst parts of “Westworld,” “Brave New World” seems infatuated with its own ideas, spending most of its nine hours spouting coffee shop philosophy about human nature that adds up to shockingly little that we haven’t heard before. Once again, a seemingly perfect society will crumble due to the imperfections of human nature and the need to rebel against an unfair caste system. ![]() There’s a little bit of “ The Handmaid’s Tale,” a lot of “ Black Mirror” (including a few stars and a shared director), and so much “ Westworld” that it reminds one how much the creators of that film and series stole from Huxley in the first place. It may take plot points and the name of Aldous Huxley’s classic anti-utopian futurist tale “ Brave New World” but make no mistake about it: this adaptation owes more to the televised dystopias of the last decade than the original source material. It feels almost like a prerequisite for a prestige cable or streaming service to have a dystopian sci-fi show in their line-up, and NBC Universal’s Peacock, launching on July 15, is not about to be the exception. ![]()
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