'But I think it's pretty easy to understand the basic ladder from the alphas down to the Epsilons – it's pretty easy for everyone to get.' 'Fortunately, the idea of the caste system is very simple, and Huxley even goes further and color codes everyone, which we didn't do to quite the same extent,' Morrison says. The show elegantly explains how the world works so you can understand its rules as you go. You don't need to be familiar with Huxley's work to enjoy the series. The show is fairly methodical in piecing all of that together – it takes its time to introduce all the characters and set the scene of this world. This is the premise of Brave New World, then, but that's actually several episodes' worth of plot. John's presence threatens to upend this carefully constructed reality. After being rescued by a local called John the Savage (Ehrenreich), Bernard and Lenina are joined by this outsider in their return trip to New London. They take a trip to what was once the United States – a degraded part of Earth now known as the Savage Lands – and inadvertently find themselves caught up in a dangerous rebellion by its citizens. Moods are controlled by a pill called Soma, while monogamy is outlawed – orgies are the order of the day.īernard Marx (Harry Lloyd) and Lenina Crowne (Jessica Brown Findlay), are classified as Alpha and Beta respectively. Alphas are at the top of the pile intellectually, and get the career opportunities to match, while Epsilons are at the bottom, performing rote jobs. In Brave New World, utopia is called New London, and it's a world structured by a caste system – essentially a series of classes that define each person's place within this society.

'In the same way that I've kind of done Batman or Superman or some of those characters in comics, it was a chance to get to the heart of the book to see what worked and what maybe didn't work, and what we could use in our current times and see if we could bring it up to life a little bit – speed it up, and bring into the 21st century.'

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