When the class warfare does reach a boiling point, or whenever that foreshadowing comes up in previous episodes, the show grows disjointed. John, a "savage," shares a bench with Cjack, an "Epsilon." Neither of them quite fit into New London society in Peacock's "Brave New World." Credit: Steve Schofield / Peacock Nina Sosanya and Kylie Bunbury also log excellent performances, but they fit clunkily at best into the show at large – which seems particularly insulting when you remember that Bunbury carried a whole show which only recently became available to stream. Hannah John-Kamen gets the most out of her role as Helm, a powerful figure in New London society ("We're going to fuck" she declares with relish upon meeting John for the first time). Nick Mohammed's Intelligence comes closest to a lead character of color but still orbits a cringey white male, and though Brave New World has prominent Black secondary characters, it often doesn't know what to do with them. In fact, a quick look at the entire slate of launch-day Peacock originals will reveal overwhelmingly Caucasian casting. It's hard not to notice immediately that all of Brave New World's leads are white. His arrival, initially a source of entertainment and excitement for those he calls foreigners, poses an inevitable threat to the very fabric of their lives.
Bernard (Harry Lloyd) and Lenina (Jessica Brown Findlay) share a growing unrest that leads them out of New London and into the "Savagelands." After a violent attack, they flee back home with the savage John (Alden Ehrenreich), who rejects everything about New London's social strata and medically-induced emotional numbing (he does not reject the orgies). Predictably, there are characters who feel amiss in this would-be utopia. They pop colorful pills to modulate their feelings and attend nightly orgies because "everyone belongs to everyone else."īrave New World cannot save itself from convention any more than the characters in its homogenous universe can. Here, everyone lives free of emotion, monogamy, and privacy, and is classified by a Greek letter indicating their standing - Alphas at the top, Epsilons at the bottom. Based on the novel by Aldous Huxley and adapted by David Weiner, Brave New World (opens in a new tab) takes place in a future where some of the world looks like our own, but a new society blooms in a bubble known as New London.
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