Peacock’s adaptation of the classic Aldous Huxley novel is way too familiar but has a soapy vitality.
Brave New Worlddoesnt waste time getting to the orgy, a futuristic hotties-only naked dance set to bumping techno.
The series (streaming Wednesday on Peacock) spins Huxleys novel in some unexpected directions.
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That characters played byDemi Moore, working overtime to defibrillate any expression at all onto Ehrenreichs dour mug.
It doesn’t help that the overall tone veers from media satire to genetic-industrial horror.
There is a totally awesome action setpiece at the end of the second hour.
The trendy god-computer makes for a limp central mystery.
The reductive portrait of class warfare wouldve felt cheap in aHunger Gamesrip-off 10 years ago.
Somewhat unusually for a big streaming drama, this show seems to be figuring itself out on the fly.
There is a full-blown rebellion in the early episodes, and then nobody really mentions it for awhile.
So the series mostly fails as a globe-spanning serialized saga.
But some genuinely sly comedy kicks in once fussy Bernard starts shepherding John into high society.
By the time the romantic triangle heats up,Brave New Worldhas successfully put the soap back in dystopia.
I swear that pun works if you take the right pills.B-
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