It also has a fine cast: Harry Lloyd (as Bernard Marx), Jessica Brown Findlay (Lenina Crowne), Demi Moore (Linda), and Nina Sosanya (a female version of the novel’s Mustapha Mond). The good news is that the latest attempt, by NBCUniversal’s new Peacock channel, has a vastly better production quality. Previous TV productions, in 19, have been laughably bad. Its appeal is mainly cerebral: the despair of a human being who suddenly finds himself in a society of immense comfort but without sin, freedom, real danger, poetry, love, or God. Brave New World lends itself poorly to the screen. I thought of the Eloi recently as I watched Brave New World, the latest effort to bring the 1932 Aldous Huxley novel to television. As the time traveler discovers, the Morlocks raise and tend the infantilized Eloi as cattle. At night, the Morlocks, the formerly human monsters who run the machines that run the paradise, emerge from their tunnels underground. He finds a beautiful world filled with beautiful young people, the Eloi, whose main tasks seem to be eating, playing, and having lots of carefree sex. A man in Victorian London invents a vehicle that carries him into the distant future. One of the best books I read in my teen years was his novel The Time Machine. Wells was a tiresome socialist, but an interesting futurist.
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