We still didn’t see much of Demi, who seems to be a sort of Blanche DuBois figure stuck in a derelict shack with a sullen younger man called John (Alden Ehrenreich), but by virtue of the production abandoning any pretence of filming Huxley’s book and charging berserkly off the reservation, at least we got a few cheap thrills. Happily, things took a turn for the better in episode two. Perversely, the show’s one real star, Demi Moore (playing Linda, pictured below), was left parked off screen for most of the running time. Actors declaimed their lines as though trying to read cue cards at long range without their spectacles. Star quality was sorely lacking, with Jessica Brown Findlay brittle and cheesy as supposed “heroine” Lenina Crowne, while her boyfriend Bernard Marx (Harry “Viserys Targaryen” Lloyd) looked as if everyone had ganged up on him at school. The sterile, dehumanised world of New London looked almost as daringly futuristic as Milton Keynes, and the depictions of the brainwashed inhabitants purporting to “enjoy” massed sexual relations (privacy, family and monogamy are banned in this suffocating dead zone) resembled a Tupperware and wife-swapping party round at Barbie and Ken’s. Even mediocre drama would have been a start. Still, this is written and produced by David Wiener, one of the masterminds of Fear the Walking Dead, so you might at least hope for a generous helping of horror and massed blood-letting.īut last week’s first episode of Brave New World ( Sky 1) disastrously walked into every known pitfall of trying to turn what is essentially a philosophical discourse into gripping drama. Of course, these days you need a pretty good fictional dystopia to surpass the one already running amok outside your window.
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