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Critic Reviews
Jul 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Though the “Westworld” parallel applies to the affluent creeps-exploiting-the-poor in an amusement park narrative, “Brave New World” is much more rewarding to watch. Attention-getting scenes of good-looking people having orgies aside, “Brave New World” benefits from a dark wit -- which the grimly self-important “Westworld” has always lacked -- and which keeps it watchable.
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IndieWireJul 15, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The plot devolves a bit as it builds to an overcomplicated finale, and Ehrenreich is a bit of a blank spot, rightfully refusing to carry John with a pure protagonist’s swagger, but without finding the charisma we know he’s got during key scenes. Still, Season 1 is an emotionally intelligent thriller, and it looks damn good to boot.
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Jul 9, 2020
Jul 15, 2020
Jul 15, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The cast is excellent, the writing superior and the direction, too. ... But this "World" does suffer from lack of scale, or at least reduction in scale. This could easily be a Syfy series as well as a Peacock one. It doesn't soar off the screen to wow you, or shock you.
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Jul 20, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It is attractive and, at points, even compelling TV; the adaptation is neither too close nor too far from the original source material; and at major twists in the plot, it did make me curious about what would happen next. It’s not at all exciting or innovative, though, and, especially later in the series, several of the major plot developments seem held together mostly with abstract CGI visuals and overly on-the-nose board-game metaphors.
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Jul 15, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The show only begins to break away from its inspirations in its final hour, when storytellers and characters alike begin to wonder if they can’t choose something else, something more. Until then, Brave New World is caught in a feedback loop of references, one that only occasionally resonates with a culture in the midst of challenging systems, unseen and otherwise.
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Jul 14, 2020
Jul 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The series looks gorgeous, and expensive, even if its sci-fi brutalist aesthetic is a bit generic. The performances are solid, too; Ehrenreich, in particular, imbues his character with brooding charm. Episodes are fast-paced and pulpy. Yet something is missing from the show’s core. Television thrives on rich characters, but, in large part because it’s set in a realm devoid of eccentricity, I struggled to get invested in this bunch. ... Brave New World feels [inert] as serialized TV.
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The TelegraphOct 2, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Huxley's novel was a warning against blind ideology and the numbing comforts of conformity. But much of that has been lost in the wash in the new, nine-part adaptation which in the main settles for being a silly, if action-packed and excellently-acted, chunk of escapism. It passes the time – but that is where its ambitions end.
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Jul 15, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Don’t get us wrong; the acting is top-notch across the board, but this just feels like one of those shows where the characters will really find minds of their own a la Westworld or it’ll continue to be antiseptic and dull. We’re thinking it’s going to be the latter.
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Jul 15, 2020
Season 1 Review:
With more orgies than comprehensible plot points, the sex and nudity in "Brave" doesn't just cross the line of good taste, it leaps over it with a smirk and a chortle. And despite the collective talent of its three main names, the acting falls spectacularly flat, as does the draggy plot.
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Jul 14, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The nine-part debut season feels like it's built on miscalculation atop miscalculation, but the gravest one is that the citizens of New London are effectively extraterrestrials. ... If this lavish but lifeless production is Peacock's most prestigious original offering, well, there's always Jim and Pam.
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Jul 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
So many of the characters we meet in this series are not merely loathsome but have so completely had the character trained out of them through a lifetime of sloth that we grab onto what little signs of life are there elsewhere. ... Both Brown Findlay and Ehrenreich seem frustratingly tamped-down here. ... No wonder the actors seem exhausted; their project, deep into its first season, doesn’t know what kind of show it wants to be.
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Jul 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
On paper, it has the elements of a hit. But in practice, it's another example of how many things have to go right to make a successful show, and Brave New World has too many parts out of place to be a success — and stripped out one of the most important parts that would have made it a success.
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