Brave New World.
I watched the pilot and it's...okay! It's promising. There was probably no way of adapting that book in a reasonably satisfying way, since let's be honest, the book is kinda bad. The revolution storyline was a little odd, doing a revolt over being forced to work in a theme park for rich people seems off since unlike in Westworld we don't really see them abused in any way, very tell-don't-show there. It's also a funny that there's this guy dressed like the aunts in Handmaid's Tale monitoring people's joy and dishing out vacations and Valium to everyone that's insufficiently happy, that's hilarious but I'm not sure it's supposed to be (yeah I know he's probably just Bernard's boss but still). But they gave as much motivation to the New London people as they probably reasonably could've given their book characterizations so they actually have a bit of interior life, Wilmelmina is a lot of fun, and the production design is seriously gorgeous, excellent decision to bring in Studio Evans Lane. Plus plenty of actual nudity, which is nice - I was concerned they'd censor that particular part of the story. I'll watch more of it, definitely.
Besides that, I wanted to talk a bit about the movie selection cuz there are a few omissions of smaller movies that seem like they'd be easy gets:
- Cry-Baby
- It's Kind of a Funny Story
- Milk (or hell, most of the early Focus catalog)
- Bound
- 4 Weddings and a Funeral
I'm sure most of these are coming later - if they have Serial Mom they're probably gonna want Cry-Baby - but I want them now!
