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The Peripheral (2022)

2022 · Drama,Mystery,Sci-Fi · sci-fi-speculative

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The Peripheral is a high-concept sci-fi prestige drama adapted from William Gibson's novel, centered on a near-future woman who discovers she can 'jack in' to a body in a far-future London, entangling two timelines with competing factions and escalating stakes. Its signature strengths are its genuinely original premise, impressive production design and visual effects, and a pair of lead performances that reviewers found compelling. The show rewards close attention and patience, and generated intense viewer loyalty — enough that its cancellation after one season became the dominant subject of its review discourse, with audiences mourning an unresolved cliffhanger and an unfulfilled potential franchise.

From the reviewers

the writing is extremely bland, the acting is subpar, and the characters are static and uninteresting
the cgi is really good, especially for a tv show, but ultimately it's just not worth suffering through 1+ hour episodes of the aforementioned problems just to see some cool effects and set pieces
he has created an extraordinarily entertaining product with better continuity than has been seen in most of the major franchises for decades. But he has done much more than that. He has told a story.
a believable, well-acted, and intelligent sci-fi show that doesn't attempt to keep single-celled brains entertained with gratuitous sex and gore scenes
The storytelling will keep you interested and make you actually care about what happens to these characters. You do have to pay attention because it could get a little complicated but not bad.

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