Within the dystopian society in Peacock’s Brave New World, most of what we’d think about regular human habits is taken into account “savage” by the so-called enlightened members of New London. Marriage, being pregnant, privateness — they’re all issues savages take pleasure in. So what occurs while you drop a savage into such a regimented society? Mayhem, in fact.
Very like the e book it is primarily based on, Courageous New World introduces a savage named John (Alden Ehrenreich) right into a society that shuns every part he grew up believing was regular. Although the town of New London is totally international to John, he manages to have fairly an influence on a number of of its inhabitants over the course of the sequence.
“[At the beginning of the series] we discover him on this very damaged down society that they’ve saved to type of present individuals within the ‘Courageous New World’ what may occur if they do not comply with the principles, primarily. [It’s] known as the Savage Lands,” Ehrenreich instructed TV Information. “New Londoners come down and go to the Savage Lands as a vacationer vacation spot and be taught what marriage was once, and being pregnant was once, and monogamy. And there is a collision that then brings him into the brand new world. And when he will get there, as soon as he realizes that these individuals, for all their sophistication, are additionally fairly naive and gullible in sure methods, he begins shaking issues up.”
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A part of the explanation New Londoners are in a position to keep such the strict social order they’ve constructed is thru a drug known as Soma that helps them regulate their feelings. For a lot of, it mainly turns their feelings off. John, in the meantime, is mainly a strolling, speaking, respiration emotion, which throws the town’s different inhabitants into turmoil.
Inside al of that turmoil, John has a touching (if difficult) love story budding with the character of Lenina, performed by Jessica Brown Findlay. And as you may count on, in a world the place love and monogamy do not actually exist, that romance faces fairly an uphill battle.
“I feel the Lenina appears to be, for no matter causes, realizing a type of craving in herself for one thing extra — some deeper emotions for one thing extra out of life than the emotional spectrum that they are given as New Londoners,” Ehrenreich mentioned. “And John is bringing all of that, and so there’s this fashion during which he begins type of encouraging her down this path that she’s been taking place very discreetly and secretively in herself. After which I feel, he additionally simply falls in love along with her… What you are experiencing while you watch the present is the messiest, most human moment-to-moment, day-to-day model of individuals’s lives, who need issues and who’re emotional and who’re doubting and who’re afraid, and the way in which during which every part is murky and complicated and sophisticated.”
Courageous New World premieres Thursday, July 15 on Peacock.
Alden Ehrenreich, Courageous New World