It’s evident that this wants to appear as Prestige TV, but in doing so it ends up sacrificing a lot of its uniqueness. Unfortunately, the few bits of Peacock’s Brave New World that do stand out as clever or enjoyable are smothered by an overall muted tone that the show can’t quite break out of. There are a number of dark gags and ideas – for example, an entire attraction based on recreating a store opening on Black Friday – that give Brave New World a flavor all its own. The idea that feels most like their brand of twisted comedy/satire is the Savage Lands, a Disneyesque theme park that showcases the lives of humans that don’t live in the advanced World State.
While it looks like they were only involved in a few key moments in the series, their anarchic touch is apparent in the early part of the series. Most interesting in this iteration is the involvement of Grant Morrison and Brian Taylor early in the creative process, the manic geniuses behind the underloved Happy!.
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