![]() ![]() ![]() Echoing John’s vision of equality - “no one above, no one below” - they decide to start killing the Alphas and Betas, who have designed a system of spiritual and physical oppression. (Within minutes, the soma shortage has spurred suicides.) And, finally, the Epsilons have decided to take matters into their own hands. The Epsilons have stopped production on the city’s embryos, destroyed its storehouses of som a - the drug, equal parts ecstasy and Xanax, that keeps New London’s citizens’ all-important “levels” intact. ![]() 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 glass-and-concrete corridors of New London, a city of pliantly pill-popping, orgiastic, genetically-segregated, Internet-connected post-humans, are covered in blood. The most affecting scene in Brave New World, Peacock Television’s timely and intimate reimagining of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopia, comes toward the series’ conclusion. ![]()
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