Harry Lloyd (Viserys Targaryen) teases Brave New World on Peacock

Game of Thrones veteran Harry Lloyd talks up his new utopian (or is it dystopian?) series Brave New World, which premieres for free tomorrow!

Tomorrow, NBC’s new streaming service Peacock launches Brave New World, a show based on Aldous Huxley’s famous sci-fi novel. And in one of the lead roles is none other than Game of Thrones veteran Harry Lloyd, who played Daenerys’ awful brother Viserys back in the first season of the show. He talked to TV Insider about what people can expect from this new utopian (or is it dystopian) drama:

As Lloyd points out, if you were raised in the US, there’s a good chance you read this book in high school — I know I did — although he didn’t crack it until he got the part of Bernard Marx. “What a story, and what a world.”

Brave New World takes place in a future society “that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself.” Everyone is neatly divided into classes, takes happy pills at regular internals, and have casual sex all over the place.

It’s a world where everyone is supposed to be happy, but that’d be a pretty boring topic for a TV show, so you know that all is not what it seems. Bernard is part of the highest caste there is — Alpha-Plus — but he’s unsettled. “There’s something wrong with him, and he can’t put his finger on it, and that’s kind of where he begins,” Lloyd says. “[He’s’] kind of weak…in some ways…He can be quite kind of shallow, hypocritical, jealous and quite childish, which are things that don’t exist in this society. But he’s also incredibly earnest and vulnerable and wants to do the right thing. He’s very confused.”

Joining Bernard in vague creeping dissatisfaction are Lenina Crowne (Jessica Brown Findlay) and John the Savage (Alden Ehrenreich), an outsider to New London who grew up in a backwater where they still do crazy things like get married, have babies without genetic alternation, and practice religion. And Demi Moore is on board as John’s mother Linda.

Like a lot of sci-fi and fantasy shows running right now, Brave New World looks crazy bonkers good for a TV show; just 10 years ago, it’d be hard to believe that a first season show could have these kinds of special effects and “enormous, inventively designed sets,” as Lloyd puts it. The visuals are down.

Beyond that, Lloyd wants to assure viewers that even if the show deals with some heavy material, it’s also “easy-going” and even “silly.”

"There’s a lightness to it…It moves on at a good pace but you don’t have to understand all the rules to make sense of the characters and what you’re doing…It’s really exciting. I’m very proud of it."

Once more, Brave New World debuts tomorrow. And if you wanna watch it, Peacock is free with ads!

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