Brave New World (Season 1)

Brave New World (2020) is a sci-fi series you can watch online on iFILM — Peacock's adaptation of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel. In New London, castes are engineered at birth, monogamy is a disorder, and soma, a mild euphoric drug, is handed out like aspirin to keep everyone pleasantly compliant.

Bernard and Lenina are model citizens who begin to feel the edges of a world that has no edges — until a trip to a Savage Reservation introduces them to John, a man raised outside the system entirely. Alden Ehrenreich, Jessica Brown Findlay and Harry Lloyd lead the cast, with Demi Moore in a significant supporting role. The series updates Huxley's vision with surveillance tech and body-autonomy themes that the novel couldn't have anticipated.

Huxley meant it as a warning. Whether the show's New London looks dystopian or oddly appealing says something about the viewer. Stream Brave New World online on iFILM.