Orgies are treated like getting a cup of coffee with 12 friends. The point of the orgies, of course, is to illustrate how little anyone feels. The only thing we hear more often than the orgies is the sound of the clickers dispensing pills. Brave New World is set in a future where monogamy, childbirth, and parenting are not allowed, which is to say: Anything that might make you feel joy or anger or frustration of happiness or sadness has been outlawed, although everyone is also on a steady diet of pills that ensures that no one ever feels anything anyway. Granted, the orgies are crucial to the story. About a month ago, I bought a year-long ad-free subscription of The Peacock upfront, and it’s good thing, because instead of commercials, Brave New World has orgies, and I don’t think I could handle both commercials and orgies, because that’s just too much time in which the plot is not advancing.
It’s because there are so many orgies, that’s why! It’s a show about a dystopian future, of course, and if you are wondering how they ended up in this dystopia, maybe it was all the orgies, which is as good a way as any to spread disease. There are also a lot of orgies, which I may have mentioned in the headline. Also, Kylie Bunbury from Pitch, who I can almost guarantee will make our Pajiba 10 in the next decade. That is due in part because of its attractive cast, including Alden Ehrenreich - who played Han Solo in Solo, but also always looks like he just walked off the set of West Side Story - and Jessica Brown Findlay ( Downton Abbey, Harlots), as well as Harry Lloyd and Sen Mitsuji, who are attractive and interesting looking. It’s not quite as good as The Morning Show, the series that Apple+ launched with (that improved over the course of its first season), but it is very watchable. Ironically, it’s how the series makes most viewers feel: Nothing. The show is set in a future dystopia called New London, where everyone is chemically treated to feel nothing. I actually like it better than Westworld, because there are fewer characters and it is easier to follow, which doesn’t make Brave New World the dumb person’s Westworld so much as it makes Brave New World the coherent person’s Westworld. It’s not going to be the Peacock’s Westworld, although it shares some of the same DNA with the HBO drama ( Brave New World is clearly influenced by Westworld, which is clearly influenced by Adlous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World). However, despite the talent and money behind it, it’s not going to be the kind of drama that attracts a ton of buzz. It is not that show, which is not to say that it’s bad.
Brave New World is the flagship series of the new Peacock streaming network, the big expensive project NBC/Universal is hoping will entice millions of new subscribers.
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