We arrive in New London, the gleaming citadel of a hedonistic society that has snuffed out discontent with three rules - “No privacy, no family, no monogamy” - and an endless supply of soma, a feel-good drug dispensed like Pez. The premise, as in so many new series based on pre-existing intellectual property, is essentially that of the novel, but stretched out. Dull, generic and padded, the series, one of the premiere offerings for NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service on Wednesday, transmutes a provocative warning into a vision of a sci-fi world that feels neither brave nor new. If only you could say that about its latest TV adaptation. The future’s diversions were so absorbing that they commanded attention over everything else. Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New World” famously imagined a future society in which people were enslaved to pleasure.
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