Feelies incorporate physical sensation along with sights and sounds, but they’re just another iteration of movies. Helm directs feelies, a form of cinema author Aldous Huxley envisioned in his 1932 novel Brave New World.
And if it’s boring, they will turn it off and they’ll be alone with their thoughts. It’s really just the old thing, but more of it. We have to give it to them like that, because if we don’t, they might realize that the New Thing isn’t new at all. “They want the New Thing, because with every new thing, there’s a chance that it could be the Big Thing,” she muses.
About halfway through Brave New World, one of the most prominent launch series on NBC’s new Peacock streaming service, Wilhelmina “Helm” Watson ( Killjoys’ Hannah John-Kamen) discusses the challenge of constantly entertaining the pleasure-obsessed residents of New London.
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