To be quite honest, this a show that is only interested in its own inner mechanics as far as it has to do with sex. It’s not really taking this nightmarish utopia and taking it apart for us. The series puts in a lot of work to look good and to think about the technology and world just enough to get by but that’s all it is: the bare minimum. BRAVE NEW WORLD - “Soma Red” Episode 109 - Pictured: Jessica Brown Findlay as Lenina Crowne - (Photo by: Steve Schofield/Peacock) It’s taking this vision from the novels and updating it just enough to fit in a modern aesthetic but that’s about it. This work is so seminal and has bled through so much dystopian fiction that - especially now where there is so much of that subgenre being put out - this ends up feeling too bland and hollow. What was once a starting point becomes something derivative, which is kind of where we’re at with Brave New World. If it were then to come out now, it’s likely that it would be completely derided because so many other properties had taken bits of it. Pop culture carried on like it always had in exactly the same way but this important work never came along to be the source of inspiration for a lot of sci-fi. Here’s an exaggerated example: let’s say that Star Wars never came out. Sadly, that’s still an appropriate reaction for this first season of the Aldous Huxley adaptation.Ī part of the problem here is that, from the jump, you’re pushing a boulder uphill in even attempting to adapt something as classic as Brave New World. It has historically either failed to make it to the screen due to one factor or another and when it has, the reception has been more lackluster than anything. Brave New World, in general, has been a difficult property to adapt to film and television.

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