![]() Brave New World just has characters on a spectrum of relative blandness and personal awakening. Except we’ve seen it all before, and other shows had the benefit of characters we actually cared about. We can then revel in the destructive and restorative power of raw emotion when Lenina goes off her meds or sympathize with John when he finally decides a little soma now and then could assuage his frustration with trying to assimilate. Granted, we’re meant to see how our society with its cell phone culture and dependence on social media for false happiness is like the world of New London with the dull grins of its citizens doped up on soma. ![]() His character is amazingly difficult to pin down despite the fact that he is the viewers’ proxy, given that the audience of Brave New World is filled with savages like him. One moment, John is battling his anxiety in an orgy in a feelie theater, the next he is calmly questioning the social structure among the Betas in Helm Watson’s employ or sowing chaos in an Epsilon dining hall. The story begins when a Shakespeare-quoting Savage, John Cooper (Tim. #John the savage brave new world movie movieThe disruption caused by the return of John the Savage to New London is perhaps supposed to capture our attention instead, but the performance of Solo’s Alden Ehrenreich is fraught with inconsistency. Brave New World is a TV movie based on the Aldous Huxley novel of the same name. ![]() Whereas in the book, the characters questioning their perfect world was an inspired bit of insight in its time, their dissatisfaction is almost a foregone conclusion in the series. “It’s the dilemma of being a creative and striving for perfection, to better the next one, to always give the audience more and challenging yourself,” John-Kamen told us in an interview about her character’s challenges, adding, “There are many similarities in the creative world!” All too true! Adaptations should never be judged by the books they’re based on, and in this case, that principle only highlights the flaws of the standalone story of Peacock’s Brave New World. The book was an innovation, satirically criticizing the utopian novels of the time, but the reinterpretation now illogically appears to be derivative of the sci-fi genre its source material inspired. “I don’t know more!” Such is the paradox of Peacock having adapted Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel after years of audiences being subjected to the dystopian stories of The Hunger Games and The 100 among many others. ![]() In Brave New World, the filmmaker character of Helm Watson, played by Hannah John-Kamen, laments having to create yet another sequel to her successful feelie series, Pleasure Bomb. This Brave New World review contains no spoilers. ![]()
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