While Peacock offers a free tier with lots of great content, exclusives like Brave New World are only available with its Peacock Premium package. The latter aspect of Huxley's vision is being brought up-to-speed by noted intimacy coordinator Ita O'Brien, who made a splash for her crucial role in Normal People, while the show's executive producer David Wiener is known his work on Fear The Walking Dead.īrave New World was the flagship launch title for Peacock - and its first Peacock Originals series - with all nine episodes now available to watch online.

Starring Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) as John the Savage, the cast also includes Demi Moore as Linda, Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones) as Bernard Marx, Jessica Brown Findlay (Downtown Abbey) as Lenina Crowne, and Nina Sosanya (Last Tango in Halifax) as gender- and race-swapped World State Controller, Mustafa Mond.Īs in the novel, the series sees the World State government manage dissent largely by doling out an unlimited, free supply of the drug soma, and actively promoting casual sex amongst its citizens. With this as its premise, the Brave New World TV show is a decidedly modern take on Huxley's magnum opus, featuring both updated humor - New Londoners delight in watching a re-enactment of a Black Friday stampede at an amusement park - and casting. It's 'After Ford' because Henry Ford's revolutionary 1913 assembly line principles have been applied to all humankind and citizens are engineered in 'hatcheries' and 'conditioning centers' to fill predetermined roles in a five-tier caste system. For anybody abroad from their usual broadcaster, you can always grab an ExpressVPN deal to stream just like you would at home.Īs originally imagined, Brave New World is set in a future London and the year is 632 AF (After Ford) in World State speak, or 2540 in the Gregorian calendar. They have already been broadcast on NBC's Peacock Premium platform in the US and is now being rolled out to international audiences.

There are nine episodes of Brave New World.

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