Burton is a veteran of a special “haptic” Marine unit, struggling with pain and other PTSD symptoms. Somewhere in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Flynne - shades of Tron - Fisher (Chloe Grace Moretz) lives in poverty, but not crushing poverty, with her brother Burton (Jack Reynor) and their ailing mother (Melinda Page Hamilton). You could rebrand The Peripheral as the fifth season of Westworld and audiences would probably just accept it, and while the cast isn’t nearly as good and the mythology isn’t nearly as convoluted, the chances of inevitable disappointment feel lower, at least through the six episodes sent to critics. Still, there’s something to be said for a version of Westworld that is simpler and therefore less ambitious and less reliably frustrating. There are big ideas under the surface that The Peripheral can’t explore because of a greater investment in twisty plot, garbled jargon and complicated world-building. Airdate: Friday, October 21 ( Amazon Prime Video)Ĭast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Gary Carr, Jack Reynor, Eli Goree, Charlotte Riley, JJ Feild, Adelind Horan, T'Nia Miller, Alex Hernandez, Louis Herthum, Chris CoyĬreator: Scott Smith, from the book by William GibsonĪctually, it’s a slight over-correction.
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