The most affecting scene in
Brave New World, Peacock Television’s timely and intimate reimagining of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopia, comes toward the series’ conclusion. The glass-and-concrete corridors of New London, a city of pliantly pill-popping, orgiastic, genetically-segregated, Internet-connected post-humans, are covered in blood. It is the result of an uprising of the city’s Epsilon class, encouraged, however inadvertently, by the outsider “savage” John (Alden Ehrenreich), who cares less for class politics than for his burgeoning relationship with Lenina (Jessica Brown Findlay), a member of the ruling class.
The Epsilons have stopped production on the city’s embryos, destroyed its storehouses of
Here are 10 exclusive movies, shows now streaming on Peacock TV
Updated Jan 16, 2021;
Posted Jan 16, 2021
We ve compiled 10 exclusive movies and TV shows now streaming on Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming service. (Photo by: Peter Kramer/Peacock)Peter Kramer/Peacock
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Grab some popcorn! Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, could be exclusively streaming your favorite movie or TV show.
The service owned and operated by the television and streaming division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast launched last July, offering hundreds of movies, thousands of episodes, binge-worthy TV shows, sports, news, pop culture and more. Peacock also has produced several original shows.
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Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi s father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and embark on a romance set against the idyllic Finnish summer.
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Pray tell, have you already binged all of
Bridgerton?
Shonda Rhimes new hit Netflix show is the talk of the
ton these days, soothing a collective need for romantic escapism brought on by the pandemic-induced lack of, well, romance and escapism. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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The eight-episode first season delivers on scandal, style and sexual tension, following the wealthy Bridgerton family as they navigate British high-society s marriage market and one Lady Whistledown s anonymous gossip column. Think
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Bridgerton is Netflix s latest hit. The streaming service projects that 63 million households will watch Bridgerton in its first four weeks, which will make it Netflix s fifth-biggest original series launch.
In its first four weeks, Bridgerton is projected to court more than 63 million households, which would make it Netflix s fifth biggest original series launched to date. pic.twitter.com/Zs7N3NBh9i Netflix Queue (@netflixqueue) January 4, 2021
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The show is a reimagining of the Julia Quinn book series, which follows the titular Bridgertons. Season 1 is based on the first novel,