If HBO Max made a mistake at launch, aside from not being available on Amazon and Roku devices, or getting confused with the other two HBO streaming services out there, it launched without a big original show or movie to get people excited. HBO Max probably has the best library of any streaming service at launch to date, but Love Life with Anna Kendrick just didn't feel like an event in quite the same way as The Mandalorian. NBC's Peacock is (hopefully) the final streaming service launch of the year in the US, following Quibi (whose three-month free trial passed without us watching for more than 10 minutes) and HBO Max. Though Peacock doesn't have an original show with as much cross-generational appeal as The Mandalorian, it does have something pretty cool new available when it launches on July 15: Brave New World, an adaptation of the sci-fi novel. by Aldous Huxley from 1932 starring Alden Ehrenreich from Solo. It has been in the making in one form or another since 2015, when it was originally planned as a new show for the Syfy channel. Brave New World takes place in New London, in a utopian world where peace has been achieved by sacrificing everything from privacy to monogamous relationships to money. Here's a trailer: However, the idea of adapting a sci-fi novel with a lot of money and a cute guy from Star Wars as the lead isn't what excites us. This adaptation comes from influential comic book writer Grant Morrison (The Invisibles, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, Arkham Asylum, among others), an inventive and imaginative storyteller with an incredible track record. And he doesn't really seem to be totally enamored with the source material, which is refreshing. In an interview with Slashfilm last year, Morrison was quite honest about the process of adapting the book for television. "The story, to be honest, is pretty weak and the female characters aren't great. As a work of detective fiction, as a work of satire, I think it's unprecedented. For us, the pleasure was just seeing what we can do to add more history, more character to see it in a new way." Morrison said he was "very involved" in the creative process, so I hope the end result is both subversive and relevant to our times. He previously worked on the Syfy show Happy!, which was canceled after two seasons. If he needs something new to add to his watch list this summer, and he's noticed TV hours starting to dwindle due to delays caused by the health crisis, Brave New World seems worth a look. It's worth checking out. Brave New World kicks off July 15 on Peacock in the US, then in 2020 on Sky One in the UK.