![]() ![]() 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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