This was a very important part of the spotlight Huxley was shining on modern people through his work of science fiction, where it seems that our real society the same as his world is hell bent on finding newer and better ways to distract and numb rather than to grow. The same is true for Soma/drugs and other external sources of fulfillment. It might work for a time as a coping mechanism but ultimately it stops working and disappoints when the novelty wears off. The difference is, Huxley centered his focus on hedonism as a numbing and fleeting frenzy of instant gratification that divorces people from feeling or meaning. Hedonism was an important part of Huxley's Brave New World. It's not necessarily a problem that this show has lots of sex in it. ![]() Imagine taking a classic piece of literature and making a show about it that not only completely misses the whole point of the book, but actually elevates the aspects of human behavior and society which the book was critiquing. It definitely is a positive launch for Peacock and if they produce a full slate of this level of programming it might just be successful. The ride is mostly fun and its not like theres much else trying to compete with it. So enjoy it for the one season and long for but hope it never gets another. It sets itself up in such a way where it leaves you wanting more of what the ending is promising yet you know if it goes that direction and tries to do a second season that it will fail miserably and taking the good of the first season with it and tainting the whole thing. The thing that ultimately makes it good is how it ends. Mostly filled with solid performances that make the otherwise vapid spectacles more entertaining than they have right to be. ![]() Those glimmers of the philosophical make the show incredibly good. It looks at the dark and philosophical ideas of Huxley and only just glances at it before losing its attention span and rejoining the party. Once you can get beyond that element you can begin to examine the actual plot. Yet it is not about where it is, its about where it is going.įirst and foremost the hardest part to deal with is the over use of sex. It simply does not know if it wants to be good or not. ![]() In a pressure cooker of norms both strait-jacketed and freewheeling, humanity is on a collision course with forbidden love and revolutionary uprising.A conundrum. Based on Aldous Huxley's prophetic 1932 novel, this genre-bending, science-fiction and fantasy drama imagines a world steeped in holographic pleasure, with hedonistic values re-branded as selflessness for the good of the collective. As members of society's upper echelons and those on the marginalized fringes begin to question the so-called faultless rules of their reality, perfection gets flipped on its head. Conditioned from birth at the Hatchery, residents of New London are assigned a letter of the Greek alphabet and relegated to predetermined life roles in accordance with expectations for their bio-engineered caste. In an idyllic utopia whose peace and stability hinge upon control of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself, everyone belongs to everyone else.
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