Unfortunately, Peacock's take on BraveNewWorld is a mishandled orgy of bad ideas | Review
Nothing sets up a big flashy dystopian launch show from a new streaming service like a series of pandemic-era protests during the worst presidential administration of American history. But showrunner David Wiener has the misfortunate to see his Aldous Huxley adaptation debut during a time when the very real and dangerous concerns of a global populace couldn’t be further from the tenets listed during the show’s opening moments: “No privacy. No family. No monogamy.
Both are well-acted. Lloyd sells a Michael Fassbender-like serpentine charm with a crooked grin and pathetic desperation by primping his hair, while Findlay’s wounded stares and uncomfortable shrugs reveal cracks beneath an unblemished surface. Linda’s embarrassing immodesty is contained to drunkenly tooling around the house in a nightgown—with Moore being very Flat on a Hot Tin Roof—rather than sleeping with all the men in town. The shocking, in-your-face cavern between the cultural standards of Old Society and New London is lessened because, well, it’s Demi Moore and you don’t ask your movie star to engage in HBO-esque debauchery—even in.
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