Peacock, NBC’s entry into the streaming wars, brings the classic dystopian tale into the 21st century
If you can keep up with new streaming platforms and their flagship shows, Peacock originalis the latest effort to entice you to a new service. The nine-episode drama—which premieres when NBC’s entry into the streaming wars debuts on July 15—is a loving departure from Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel of the same name, which you may have been assigned to read during some desultory high school summer.
Huxley’s New London is based upon a conveyor belt that mass produces humans—some purposefully genetically engineered to be low-class workers, others coddled to be future elites. Inconvenient emotions—anger, sadness, fear—are dosed with various doses of the drug soma. The populace is kept stimulated with titillating entertainment, dubbed “feelies,” which are more about producing sensations than communicating a story.
The new series is a clever modern adaptation, engaging deeply with the source material while dispensing with Huxley’s glaringly racist themes and some of the misogyny, too. Several minor characters are gender- and/or race-swapped—most notably, world controller Mustapha Mond becomes Mustafa Mond, played by, while emotional engineer Helmholtz Watson becomes Wilhelmina, called “Helm,” played by.
The story begins with him and Lenina as the audience’s de facto guides through New London. Lloyd, who I haven’t seen enough of since his turn as Viserys on, puts so much contradiction and nuance into Bernard’s performance that he becomes pathetic but lovable, a killjoy whose insecurities are writ clear on his face.
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