![]() ![]() It’s a bit rich to be expected, as a viewer, to form a critique of the idle characters onscreen while sinking into hour four of a binge. ![]() ![]() This everything-is-free ethos hides a deep repression: The wealthy spend their lives doing nothing in order that they may stay in line.Īll of which makes it an uneasy fit for a streaming-TV adaptation - premiering with the July 15 launch of NBCUniversal’s new service Peacock - from the very start. “ Brave New World,” a TV adaptation of the Aldous Huxley novel, takes place in a fictional universe in which pleasure and indolence are the paramount virtues individuals in the upper echelon of society (served by those bred to be beneath them) spend their existences in a pursuit of leisure one might call single-minded if we suspected any of these poor creatures had much to call a mind at all. ![]()
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