The acting was mediocre, the dialogue was laughable and the episodes I watched, were enough for me to check out of New London and try to find the Savage Lands because at least the people there, for good or bad, were interesting and alive (the Savage Lands is a theme park created for the amusement of the Alphas and Betas to see what it was like when people got married, were monogamous, rampant consumerism, and embraced all of the ills that caused the intellectuals to devise a way to drug the "bad" out of people). What I saw in this adaption is beautiful set design and lovely cinematography, riddled with a meandering story that was caught in its own reverence, without very much in it to be revered. That actually sounds like what we're dealing with now. Plus, there's a pesky caste system.Alphas and Betas run everything and Gammas and Deltas are the looked-down-upon drudge workers. Fast forward to this series nonsense no relationships, no family, no religion, no monogamy, no money, no racism, no misogyny, yet people are drugged in order to convince them that they're happy without any real human or emotional connection, love and roots. I remember reading the book in college (based upon author Aldous Huxley's 1932 Dystopian novel), and it was disconcerting and troubling. Sydney Chandler- No one with a modicum of common sense should want any parts of this "Brave New World". Today, I think this book prosperous and intellectual, but is also not for a young audience. I also believed the book to hold a bad influence on teenagers, or young adults who’ve read it. I believed the book to be too dramatic and overemphasized about this “brave new world”. Ruben’s class and I read it, and I remember disliking the book so much, that I had no interest in reading the rest of it. I wanted to share some positive and negative reviews I found on Google regarding Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” story, and I have to admit I became very amused! This book was introduced while I was a student in High School. Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” sets off disturbing vibes & overlooked, while others find it to be
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