The populace is kept stimulated with titillating entertainment, dubbed “feelies,” which are more about producing sensations than communicating a story. Inconvenient emotions-anger, sadness, fear-are dosed with various doses of the drug soma. 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. The sparknotes: A “savage” outsider disrupts a dystopian future ruled by soothing drugs and biologically determined social classes. 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. If you can keep up with new streaming platforms and their flagship shows, Peacock original Brave New World is the latest effort to entice you to a new service.
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