V For Vendetta Explained-Fascism, Faust, Fawkes, And The Year 2020 ? Harry Lloyd, Legion’s Charles Xavier plays Bernard with such superficial banality and competing despair it is hard not to sympathize with him even as we hate him. The other Alpha Pluses shun him because he doesn’t believe he is one. He is a flinching Soy Boy Beta Cuck in an Alpha Plus body who cares way too much what others think of him. BRAVE NEW WORLD - “Pilot” Episode 101 - Pictured: Harry Lloyd as Bernard Marx - (Photo by: Steve Schofield/Peacock)īernard Marx(obvious statement on workers) is an Alpha Plus who acts as a counselor for everyone in New London. In a society where you are manufactured and born in a laboratory to be what you are and nothing more, there shouldn’t be any depression, want, or desire. He is called to investigate the death of an Epsilon or trash man who may have committed suicide. Think Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb, until our protagonist Bernard finds people aren’t entirely comfortable or numb to what’s happening around them. In New London, the citizens work for Soma, a mood enhancer that levels out every emotion into a blissful middle ground where nothing matters. BRAVE NEW WORLD - “Pilot” Episode 101 - Pictured: Demi Moore as Linda - (Photo by: Steve Schofield/Peacock)Īs the #TimesUp movement collides with the Selfie Nation, it isn’t that hard to imagine a time when we trade our privacy for likes. The Peacock Original premiering today through a series of byzantine twists and turns leaves you with more questions than answers and more than enough space for seasons to come. The ending of the book leaves zero room for future stories. Pulling from Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel but updated, this new vision is clearer and more poignant. Brave New World is juicy, sexed-up escapism for a pandemic starved audience.
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