The Peripheral

[Drunk Monk]

The Peripheral: based on a William Gibson novel and the makers of Westworld. Could be a giant mess.

Could be that you’re too judgey Mr. Judgey McJudgeFace.

Or maybe it will turn out to be a big mess but I watched e1 and was engaged. You get the plot from the trailer. Chloe is a top level gamer living in the blue ridge mountains in the near future. She gets to beta a new gaming system that transports her to London in the near future from her near future. But things get too real. 

It had nice pacing and fun special effects. I like Chloe even though I’ve only seen a fraction of her work. There’s some decent action and it’s all very cyberpunk as we’d expect from Gibson. So far, it’s built a stylish world, reminiscent of Westworld, or at least the small amount I’ve watched of it. There was some cringey eye stuff that reminded me of Cronenberg. 

I’m in for some more. But I’m not going to recommend it yet just in case of the off chance that Mr. McJudgeFace is right. It could happen. I could also win the lottery. We shall see.