His mere presence breaks through the Soma daze to expose the superficiality of New London and destabilizes the social hierarchy.

John ignites those he meets with a longing for freedom and passion, even if that means sacrificing their drug-fueled contentment. Crowne and Marx escape with John back to New London, where his idealism, passion, and roguish charm begins to rub off on the inhabitants - especially the protagonists - to disastrous results. On a sightseeing trip to this Savage Reservation, our two New Londoner protagonists, the earnest and anxious counselor Bernard Marx (Harry Lloyd) and the free-spirited geneticist Lenina Crowne (Jessica Brown-Findlay), are caught in a violent rebellion and have to be saved by John the Savage (Alden Ehrenreich). It also preserves the most base elements of middle America: it’s a visual wasteland of dusty Walmarts and trailer parks. To get a taste of “authenticity,” New Londoners travel to the Savage Reservation, an autonomous region in what used to be New Mexico that refused to connect to Indra and preserves aspects from the old world, like monogamy, family units, and struggles for survival.

“If you’re not happy, you’re nothing at all,” and, “Everyone belongs to everyone else,” go the New London mantras. Likewise, citizens of this new society satisfy every bodily pleasure imaginable at nightly raves that turn into massive orgies.Īn omniscient wireless network called Indra enforces the rules through contact lenses that connect to the user’s consciousness. London, as well as much of the world, has formed a strict, hierarchical system of genetically modified people to fill different roles in a society that values stability above all.Įmotional pain is a thing of the past with help from a mood-altering drug called Soma, which New Londoners take to subdue negative emotions as insignificant as an awkward encounter with co-workers to the life-altering trauma of watching a friend die. Set some 500 years in the future, a new civilization has risen from the ashes of an undisclosed calamity. Everyone is very happy,” is the title card of the first episode.

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