The Peripheral
2022
📺 1 Season
🎬 8 Episodes
📅 Canceled
🌐 EN
Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Stuck in a small Appalachian town, a young woman’s only escape from the daily grind is playing advanced video games. She is such a good player that a company sends her a new video game system to test…but it has a surprise in store. It unlocks all of her dreams of finding a purpose, romance, and glamour in what seems like a game…but it also puts her and her family in real danger.
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Seasons
Season 1
Stuck in a small town without many prospects, Flynne Fisher is a brilliant gamer who works a dead end job to support her veteran brother and ailing mother. When her brother enlists her help playing an advanced video game known as a SIM , Flynne sees something she shouldn't, bringing real life danger to the family's doorstep.
Cast
User Reviews
Great visuals. Great story. Great series.
Looking forward to more fighting and bada$$ery in season two.
June 20, 2023
The real peripheral in this predictably woke series, is men. They are mostly silly creatures, who never grow up. At least, according to the main character and her mother.
Yes "wo-man power" is everything. Men are persistently relegated to menial roles, doing as they are told and fighting battles, for their intellectually superior, female counterparts.
Its small wonder the US entertainment industry is circling the proverbial, if they think unfairly denigrating one half of the human race, is going to slip by unnoticed.
On the upside, the underlying story is interesting (once you cut past the woke-ness) and the action is well paced and of a reasonable standard.
CGI is polished and imaginative, too.
Its a shame we don't see a return to entertainment where "people" play different roles and this incessant gender politicking, is thrown in the waste bin of entertainment history, where I feel it belongs.
October 23, 2022
Crew
Producer
Greg Plageman, Halle Phillips, Jamie Chan
Network
Prime Video
Production
Kilter Films, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros. Television
Keywords
artificial intelligence (a.i.)androidbased on novel or bookwar veteranvirtual realitytime machinefuturisticgamercyberpunkrobot