.loisland79 investigates what it means to call a TV show 'dystopian,' and if Peacock's BraveNewWorld really fits the bill:
. There, the weather always appears to be dark and gloomy, perhaps because the government rulers feel zero culpability in publicly maiming, torturing, and killing their citizens in the name of what they believe to be the greater good.
In adapting the novel, Wiener says it was important to him and his team to acknowledge that stories of dystopia and speculative fiction “come with this whole set of tropes.” And “instead of trying to dismiss them,” they wanted to figure out “how can we take those tropes that are familiar and do them in a deliciously weird way?”“People often assume that dystopia is the opposite of a utopia when, in fact, the relationship tends to be much more complicated.
Wiener adds that while “those are all things that we recognize from our culture that can make our culture fraught and full of conflict,” when they disappear you have to ask “what’s inside you? Is that a good place to be? If it feels good, is it good? Are you missing something essential and fundamentally human?”cast and crew didn’t set out to make a show that would air during a global health crisis.
Professor Connors says dystopian series make good business sense right now simply because “historically speaking, dystopias have tended to be most popular with people during periods of social and economic instability.” He says the originalwas released in 1949 as many licked their wounds from World War II.
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