In Peacock’s ‘Brave New World,’ Everyone Is Very Happy, or so It Seems

One key component that confers true happiness is missing from even the most perfectly engineered society

Brave New World streams on NBCUniversal's Peacock online service. Peacock

What do people need to be happy?

In the new Peacock original series “Brave New World,” as well as the 1932 Aldous Huxley novel it’s based on, happiness in the fictional society of New London is mandated by the powers that be.