Lenina Crowne, a Beta Plus is questioned for spending too much time, repeatedly, with one Alpha Plus man. The nine-episode series begins with a series of minor incidents that gradually work up and spread the undercurrent of introspection. A cross over between individuals from these two extremely different spaces brings about changes, questions and unrest among all those who, until then, thought that the life they led till then was all there was to life. The New Londoners look down upon the savages, and even visit their land, located beyond their protected barrier which they treat as an amusement park. On the other hand, there are the primitive people who have chosen not to be induced by any such conditioning – who live what the New Londoners call savage-like existence. What is also exclusive here is that every individual is segregated into levels – of Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Epsilons. They have no parents, children, partners out here, and the daily orgies are programmed to encourage the idea that everybody belongs to everybody.
New London is a technology driven system wherein people are programmed, conditioned to live happy by being who they are, and to keep stronger emotions in check, they consume a drug called Soma – lots of it.
Plot: Adapted from the book Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley in 1932, this futuristic series is about high society that lives a privileged, luxurious and ‘happy’ life and the primitive humans who live like savages in the real world – and how different they are, or are they?
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