What if you combined:

The Running Man-esque gladiatorial combat as entertainment

with some Battle Royale

with some pro wrestling theatrical vibes sprinkled on top

with some Naked and Afraid

and light it all up?

You get Chain-Gang All-Stars, that’s what you get.

The much more interesting but lesser known dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell’s 1984.

Not as prophetic as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World but it’s more consistently well written and has mostly aged better.

It’s more open to interpretation than I was expecting.

Brave New World is a dystopian novel from 1932 about dystopian shit and it has a lot to say about the dystopia we’re currently living in.