The series "imagines a utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself."
In 2015, Syfy announced their intention to develop the series, with Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey producing. In 2016, writers Les Bohem, Grant Morrison, and Brian Taylor were attached to the project. On February 13, 2019, the series was moved to the USA Network, with David Wiener replacing Bohem as a writer and Owen Harris directing the pilot. In April 2019, Ehrenreich was cast as John the Savage. In the same month, it was announced that Lloyd would be cast in the series regular role as Bernard Marx. In May 2019, it was announced that Jessica Brown Findlay would be cast in the role of Lenina Crowne. In June 2019, Kylie Bunbury, Hannah John-Kamen, Sen Mitsuji, Joseph Morgan, and Nina Sosanya were added to the main cast in various supporting roles, with Demi Moore set to appear in a recurring role. On September 17, 2019, NBCUniversal announced that the series would be moved to Peacock. The series premiered on July 15, 2020.
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 41% based on 46 reviews, with an average rating of 5.68/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Brave New World is sleek and seductive, but not very daring, only skimming the surface of Aldous Huxley's dystopian epic without plumbing its philosophical depths." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100 based on 26 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Sonia Saraiya of Vanity Fair gave it a positive review and wrote: "The new series is a clever modern adaptation, engaging deeply with the source material while dispensing with Huxley's glaringly racist themes and some of the misogyny, too." Judy Berman of Time suggests the show owes more to Westworld than Huxley, but says the series looks gorgeous and the performances are solid. Berman finds the show lacking. "Television thrives on rich characters, but, in large part because it's set in a realm devoid of eccentricity, I struggled to get invested in this bunch.... Brave New World feels as serialized TV." Daniel D'Addario of Variety gave it a mixed review and wrote: "So many of the characters we meet in this series are not merely loathsome but have so completely had the character trained out of them through a lifetime of sloth that we grab onto what little signs of life are there elsewhere.... Both Brown Findlay and Ehrenreich seem frustratingly tamped-down here.... No wonder the actors seem exhausted; their project, deep into its first season, doesn't know what kind of show it wants to be."
Release
Brave New World premiered on July 15, 2020 on Peacock in United States and Sky One In UK. Internationally, the series is scheduled to premiere on Amazon Prime Video in Europe, Latin America and Australia Originally the Series was going to be released on August 21 but the Series will be released on September 11, 2020. In Canada the series will premiere on Showcase, on September 13, 2020..
