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Brave New World, Peacock Television’s timely and intimate reimagining of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopia, comes toward the series’ conclusion. The glass-and-concrete corridors of New London, a city of pliantly pill-popping, orgiastic, genetically-segregated, Internet-connected post-humans, are covered in blood. It is the result of an uprising of the city’s Epsilon class, encouraged, however inadvertently, by the outsider “savage” John (Alden Ehrenreich), who cares less for class politics than for his burgeoning relationship with Lenina (Jessica Brown Findlay), a member of the ruling class.
The Epsilons have stopped production on the city’s embryos, destroyed its storehouses of