Brave New World Review: Peacock's Sci-Fi Series Strips the Meaning From a Classic

Stream QueensWith the summer heat raging outside and the excitement of the Fourth of July having passed, there are plenty of new streaming options to keep you cool and entertained throughout this weekend.Documentaries abound with a perfect follow-up to  and an unvarnished look at the troubles of childhood stardom. If you're in a thriller kind of mood, there are both movie and TV options that are sure to please.

Brave New World? When Season 1 of Peacock's new dystopian series came to a close,it kind of felt like the world had ended, but the story doesn't necessarily have to stop there.The mounting tension in New London came to a head in the Season 1 finale, with the uprising of the Episilons led by CJack60 (Joseph Morgan). They took John's (Alden Ehrenreich) words about creating an equal world a little too far and started massacring Alphas, Betas, and Gammas alike.

Demi Moore has transformed herself for her latest role. The 57-year-old Golden Globe nominee showed off a new hairdo on Instagram on Wednesday.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Brave New World,” streaming now on Peacock.Alden Ehrenreich is no stranger to stepping into the worlds of iconic intellectual property: In 2013 he starred in the big-screen adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s “Beautiful Creatures” and in 2018 joined the “Star Wars” universe as the titular Han Solo in “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” Now, comes his first television series regular role as

coronavirus pandemic at a safe distance from Hollywood.“As a writer, you’re self-isolating your entire life anyway,” Morrison says from his home in his native Scotland. “So it hasn’t been that difficult.

Peter White Television EditorThere’s something quite apt about a book that explores the issue of instant gratification becoming the centerpiece of a new streaming service.This is Brave New World and it launches today on Peacock.Showrunner David Wiener tells Deadline that he was struck by how prescient author Aldous Huxley’s 1932 book was.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVGrant Morrison has been riding out the coronavirus pandemic at a safe distance from Hollywood.“As a writer, you’re self-isolating your entire life anyway,” Morrison says from his home in his native Scotland. “So it hasn’t been that difficult.

Brave New World, most of what we would consider normal human behavior is considered "savage" by the so-called enlightened members of New London. Marriage, pregnancy, privacy — they're all things savages indulge in.

premiering Wednesday on Peacock.“There are some scripts that you just read and immediately know you have to do,” Findlay, 30, tells The Post. “I knew I had to play Lenina Crowne.”“Brave New World” is based on the classic 1932 Aldous Huxley novel of the same name.

Will Thorne Staff WriterWelcome back to Tune In: our weekly newsletter offering a guide to the best of the week’s TV.Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them.

It feels almost like a prerequisite for a prestige cable or streaming service to have a dystopian sci-fi show in their line-up, and NBC Universal’s Peacock, launching on July 15, is not about to be the exception. It may take plot points and the name of Aldous Huxley’s classic anti-utopian futurist tale “Brave New World” but make no mistake about it: this adaptation owes more to the televised dystopias of the last decade than the original source material.

New World has now been delayed to 2021 following feedback from its alpha test players.The game is scheduled to release on August 25, however will now be released at a yet-to-be-announced date in 2021 to allow the team more time to incorporate more features.Players who have already signed up for the upcoming beta or pre-ordered the game will be allowed exclusive access to New World in its current state for a limited time starting on August 25.“When we (Amazon Game Studios) examined the feedback

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley on your required reading list in high school, prepare to see it as you never expected.

It’s interesting the talk of, “is it a series or is it a film?” that dominates film culture when a great filmmaker does something in the realm of television. David Lynch is really seen as a forerunner in the film-to-TV transition because of “Twin Peaks,” the ’90s version, and the more recent Showtime return, but Ingmar Bergman was already out there in the 1970s.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen Aldous Huxley was writing “Brave New World” in 1931, he was envisioning a futuristic world in which humans were genetically engineered into a caste system. Those who were deemed the most intelligent were on top — the aptly named Alphas — but no one looked around or within to question why things were like this or if it was the best way.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Emmy race for variety talk series took a dramatic turn at the end of March, when the late-night shows all found themselves pivoting to a new, at-home format.