It's a big part of the story at the end."Īlden Ehrenreich, as "John" in 'Brave New World.' Peacock They've been conditioned to perform functions but once they're open to the idea of something else, it has a big effect on them."Īdds Wiener, "I think it would feel untrue if we were to let the Epsilons go on without any consideration of fairness.
What happens when they engage with John, the Epsilons analyze if they are really happy. "But our show would feel incomplete if we didn't. You don't meet those people," Wiener says. "Huxley doesn't engage with what it's like to be an Epsilon, ever. The Epsilons make John into a kind of folk hero. This is played out in the new series in a big way towards the end, when - minor spoilers - John (Alden Ehrenreich) learns that his presence in New London has introduced bold ideas of liberty and freedom to the bottom-rung Epsilon class. With his world segregated by classes, Wiener found an opportunity to explore a metaphor of wealth inequality, which has come to the forefront in mainstream American politics. One idea Huxley didn't consider, at least in the pages of his novel, is class warfare. Jessica Brown Findlay stars in 'Brave New World' as Lenina in an expanded role from Aldous Huxley's original novel. And of course, television and movies were beginning to penetrate more households. A few years away from the sexual revolution of the 1960s, Huxley anticipated more rampant drug use. Overpopulation was a concern for Huxley, as was the means to control an entire populace becoming more feasible. There were avenues that seemed more dramatically interesting to go at the end."Įven in the late '50s, Huxley saw that the world was becoming more like the future he predicted. "He had a lot of second thoughts about how he ended it," Wiener says. In 1958, nearly thirty years after the publication of Brave New World, Huxley published a book-length essay, Brave New World Revisited that reexamined his own work.
Wiener further says that the second season could, maybe, take cues in Huxley's actual "sequel" to his novel. I think it'll successfully lead into a second season. "We leave a lot of doors open at the end of the season. "There's room for future seasons," showrunner David Wiener tells Inverse. But with the long-awaited TV adaptation now streaming on NBC's new platform Peacock, it begs the question: What could happen in a theoretical Brave New World Season 2.įor those who are really into Peacock's version, take comfort knowing there is potential for more. Unlike other big literary hits that have made it to television, like Game of Thrones and True Blood, Aldous Huxley's Brave New Worldisn't a series that lends itself to multiple TV seasons.
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