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79% Avg. Tomatometer 57 Reviews 85% Avg. Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Set in the future when technology has subtly altered society, a woman discovers a secret connection to an alternate reality...
Oct 20, 2022 · October 20, 2022 11:59am. Amazon Studios. In Amazon’s new drama The Peripheral, a scientist is making adjustments to a robot meant to resemble a recently dispatched henchman. The voice is a...
Oct 20, 2022 · The series, based on a novel by cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson, boasts competently directed action that rubs up uneasily against deeply indulgent running times; no matter how good the chase...
Oct 21, 2022 · The Peripheral: Season 1 Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Mini Anthikad-Chhibber The Hindu. A smartly-written and visually-arresting show from the ‘Westworld’ creators, ‘The...
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By Tara Bennett
Updated: Oct 29, 2022 3:09 am
Posted: Oct 21, 2022 8:57 pm
The Peripheral premieres globally Oct. 20 on Prime Video.
Surprisingly, there hasn’t been an overabundance of author William Gibson’s noir cyberpunk getting adapted to film or television. He’s certainly heavily inspired some seminal sci-fi films like The Matrix and Strange World. But Prime Video’s series take on The Peripheral, based on Gibson’s book of the same name, is the first direct adaptation via executive producers Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, and Vincenzo Natali. A complicated tale set in the near futures of 2032 and 2070, it explores how technology is amplified as a conduit for war, atrocities, connection, and perhaps the salvation of the human species. Despite being slickly produced with top-notch visuals, The Peripheral sags under the weight of a story with too many plotlines to follow that aren’t that compelling and a criminally sluggish pace.
If anyone’s qualified enough to bring Gibson’s style of futuristic sci-fi storytelling to the screen, Nolan, Joy, and Natali certainly have earned the right to give it a go. Nolan co-created Person of Interest, while Joy directed Reminiscence and Natali directed episodes of Hannibal, The Strain, and Westworld. They know their high-end sci-fi, of which half of The Peripheral can be categorized in its 2070 storytelling. The other half is set in rural, small-town Canton in 2032. It’s there that the Fisher family resides. Siblings Flynne (Chloë Grace Moretz) and Burton (Jack Reynor) care for their blind mother on their meager paychecks. She works in a small 3D printing shop and he’s a military veteran who plays VR SIM games for money or Beta testing. However, Flynne is better at it and often uses his handle/avatar to earn the cash to buy mom’s expensive, uninsured medicine. It’s in this scenario that she Beta tests new tech and software that puts her in future London where she’s guided by the voice of Aelita (Charlotte Riley) to complete tasks in remarkably realistic environments. One of those missions almost turns deadly and puts an actual bounty on Flynne/Burton’s head.
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The Peripheral will likely appeal to those who are still watching HBO’s Westworld and William Gibson fans. While there’s great fealty given to the major plot points of Gibson’s book, the series suffers from trying to balance too many character plots, making it slow paced and lumbering. And it requires a lot of patience when it comes to mythology re...
Oct 20, 2022 · Prime Video's The Peripheral is a Sci-fi Slog. Nick Allen October 20, 2022. Tweet. Prime Video’s “The Peripheral” seems to have everything, except the intrigue to keep you watching. Its story plays with time travel, simulations and avatars, faceless robots, secret missions, and something about the apocalypse. But there’s also American ...
The Peripheral: With Chloë Grace Moretz, Gary Carr, Jack Reynor, JJ Feild. Set in the future when technology has subtly altered society, a woman discovers a secret connection to an alternate reality as well as a dark future of her own.
