The perils of the ‘perfect’ world

In New London, everyone belongs to everyone else. Monogamous sexual relationships are considered supremely selfish in this rigidly socially engineered, pill-popping world of the future – a supposed utopia of order and harmony and pharmaceutically ensured goodwill that is in fact sterile and lifeless. But not everyone subscribes to the new world order, as the increasingly unhappy Lenina Crowne (Jessica Brown Findlay) and Bernard Marx (Harry Lloyd) find out when they journey outside their bubble to the so-called Savage Lands. And what will happen when they take their troubled worker John (Alden Ehrenreich) back to New London with them? Based on Aldous Huxley’s influential 1932 novel, which introduced a number of dystopian ideas that have since become standard sci-fi tropes, this nine-part adaptation also features

Demi Moore as John’s mother Linda, as well as Joe

Anderson and Lara Peake (above). Sky/NOW TV, available now