The Peripheral

I enjoyed this. It’s a compelling story about a young woman who enters what she thinks will be a sophisticated video game simulation and finds herself slightly in the future, on the other side of the world, operating a body that looks like the sexy ninja version of her own body.

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The actress who holds down this series, Chloë Grace Moretz, is excellent. I believed her entirely. The casting of the other characters is pretty good too; there is a nice range of diversity. And whoever took care of the clothes of the people in the future did an excellent job.

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The series is set in 2032. At one point, when the lead character is inside her avatar in the future, she demands to know why there are so few people walking around London. She is given a vision of what humanity will face just a few years into her future (in the past). They do a great job with that scene is all I will say.

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The first series, released in October of 2022, was very well received, and in February of 2023, it was renewed for a second season, but the delays caused by the Writer’s Strike made the thing fall apart and Amazon cancelled it.

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I hope someone else will pick it up to finish the story, which is loosely based on a book published in 2014 by William Gibson.

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Recommended!

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