![]() That wasn’t the case in the book, which was much more racist in its class breakdown. New London is a diverse society, and although the caste system discriminates, in the show it doesn’t do so by race. Some shifts, though, are due to changing times. (Privacy didn’t exist in Huxley’s original New London, so it only tracks that current-day privacy concerns would find their way into a modern adaptation.) Similarly, the TV show features an artificial intelligence that designed the titular Brave New World, and it explores how the World State was built, elaborating on Huxley’s original writing that explained why it came about. To that end, the TV show adds a Black Mirror-style interface where citizens like Bernard Marx ( Harry Lloyd), an Alpha+, meaning he’s part of New London’s most elite, can see everyone else’s rank - and themselves be monitored when they take the contact out. ![]() “He might be disappointed, but I think it seems to be an extension of what he was focused on and warning against.” “I think Huxley wouldn't be very surprised,” Wiener says. Huxley was quite prescient when writing Brave New World, foreseeing the development of major innovations like in vitro fertilization and oral contraceptives, but one thing he didn’t see coming was the internet - and with it, social media. The TV show’s version of New London, a seemingly perfect society where every pre-designed embryo is sorted into a caste and people live about their station without monogamy, religion, money, or any burdens of ownership, is similar to the book. “The remarkable thing was that we wound up actually hitting a lot of the same plot points as Huxley did, but we get there in a very different way.” “It is actually an easy book to be faithful to, on some level, because the premise is so strong,” Wiener tells SYFY WIRE ahead of the premiere on Peacock. ![]() However, showrunner David Wiener says that he and the other minds behind the series “wound up being even more faithful than probably we intended.” Even ignoring the sorts of changes required for converting a literary classic into a TV show, the real world’s gotten a lot newer since Huxley wrote of a secretly dark utopian future driven by pleasure and mind-numbing drugs. That’s to be expected, though, in part because author Aldous Huxley published Brave New World almost 90 years ago, in 1932. Brave New World, Peacock’s new original series, isn’t a direct adaptation of the original book. ![]()
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