Hot take incoming:
Amazon’s decision to not renew #ThePeripheral will ultimately be seen as a bigger blunder than Fox’s decision to not renew #Firefly.
Just did a rewatch. What a fantastic show, and a wonderful adaptation of the #WilliamGibson novel.
Such a shame that the world only got this one season of Chloë Grace Moretz’s portrayal of Flynne Fisher.
“And first of all that it was no one thing. That it was multicausal, with no particular beginning and no end. More a climate than an event, so not the way apocalypse stories liked to have a big event, after which everybody ran around with guns […] or else were eaten alive by something caused by the big event. Not like that.
It was androgenic, he [post-jackpot] said, and she [pre-jackpot] knew from Ciencia Loca and National Geographic that that meant because of people.
Not that they’d known what they were doing, had meant to make problems, but they’d caused it anyway. And in fact the actual climate, the weather, caused by there being too much carbon, had been the driver for a lot of other things. How that got worse and never better, and was just expected to, ongoing.
Because people in the past, clueless as to how that worked, had fucked it all up, then not been able to get it together to do anything about it, even after they knew, and now it was too late.” — William Gibson
#Jackpot / #AlexWellerstein / #WilliamGibson / #ThePeripheral <https://doomsdaymachines.net/p/hitting-the-jackpot>
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Rund drei Jahre nach dem Produktionsstopp kehrt „The Peripheral“ in die internationalen Streaming-Charts zurück. Besteht Hoffnung auf Staffel 2? #sfcd #theperipheral #sciencefiction
Sci-Fi-Serie feiert trotz früh...
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Give us another series of this you bastards!
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@mistheart
Yo ya pasé por eso, es duro. Y después del tiempo que hace de ese final ya no hay esperanzas de una continuación.
Pero si te gustó, ponte con #ThePeripheral, que también es buena. 😂
In what world can someone cancel "The Peripheral" at the end of season 1, and someone else make 3 seasons of "Invasion"?
I'm still watching it, but surely no one knows what's going on...
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@Weirding_Is_Real
Canceling that show was an absolute bonehead move by Amazon. It was soooo good.
@GreatDismal Just watched The Peripheral.
Pretty good... but it ended rather abruptly and with a couple of cliffhangers.
Will there be more, I wonder? #thePeripheral
I read a news item about Amazon's TV adaptation of William Gibson's novel THE PERIPHERAL, and thought the idea sounded intriguing. The show got cancelled after a single season, so there's no point in watching it now -- I read the book instead.
In the book, protagonist Flynne Fisher lives in an economically-depressed rural area in a near-future US, with her mom Ella and her ex-military brother Burton. Burton is doing odd jobs, one of which is supposedly beta-testing a new VR game.
He lets Flynne sub for him in the game, where she's operating a drone in a futuristic city and during this, she witnesses an apparent murder. But it's not actually a game: the people of 70 years in the future, who live in a world of bioengineering and 3D-printed bodies, are using an unspecified mechanism to communicate with the past and outsource some tasks, like drone operation, to people in the past.
Now someone in the future would like to eliminate Flynne as a potential witness, and it turns into a proxy battle as the future people, with publicist Wilf Netherton as our POV character, begin manipulating the global economy of Flynne's time. To help with the investigation, Flynne dials into the future in a teleoperated body that's called a peripheral, giving the book its title.
Lots of clever ideas here, and Gibson's prose is excellent. Each chapter alternates between Flynne's familiar and increasingly risky world, and Wilf's exotic and unfamiliar one. Somewhere between Flynne and Wilf, there was a polycrisis event called the Jackpot that's an unspecified mix of climate change, technological disaster and political crisis that killed off 80% of humanity.
(Ha ha, those sci-fi writers with their whimsical escapist fantasies!)
Overall I liked the book, but it left me unsatisfied. Spoilers in the next post... (1/2)
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Just finished season 1 of The Peripheral, based on a 2014 Gibson novel of the same name. It seems season 2 was cancelled, which is disappointing. But I'd still recommend it. Each of the 8 episodes has enough of an internal arc to make them satisfying to watch, while still wanting more, as does the season as a whole.
The Jackpot is starting. #ThePeripheral
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On this episode of Story & Craft podcast, I chat with actor Jack Reynor from the @Netflix show The Perfect Couple as well as the Amazon Prime Video show, The Peripheral!. We talk about his career and more!
It’s on your fav pod app & https://www.StoryAndCraftPod.com
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Yesterday I finished "The Peripheral" by W.Gibson.
Without spoiling anything, I'll just say that I liked it, but in some parts I had trouble understanding certain scenes.
I had the feeling that the writer took for granted the knowledge of certain elements, or that he relied a little too much on the reader's imagination.
I'll definitely read its sequel, "Agency" because I want to know more about the characters and I want to see if some things are finally explained.
