The first few episodes are intriguing. The last few episodes are awful, leading to a “conclusion” that is nothing more than hand-waving bs. I rolled my eyes numerous times at its pretentiousness and pseudo-intellectual nonsense.
I find it very interesting that cyberpunk is making a comeback now that 1) special effects have caught up with the imagery and 2) it's all coming true. William Gibson's The Peripheral (a late entry in his canon) gets the television treatment, headed by Chloë Grace Moretz as Flynne, an expert gamer a decade in our future, tapped to play a new "sim", but it turns out she's beamed to a cybernetic body (a "peripheral") decades in the future. What follows is a rich tapestry of temporal interference from that future, with various factions vying for control, while also keeping touch with the present (well, 2032, which has some interesting near-future world-building) and its cast of characters. Game theory also comes into it even if Flynne accesses reality. Fairly absorbing, even if the science-fiction can be heady (the first season's climax, for example, needs more explanation, which will only come in Season 2, one would imagine). But it's cool and well cast. Probably will require additional watch-throughs to really get the complex story to gel in my mind.
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The first few episodes are intriguing. The last few episodes are awful, leading to a “conclusion” that is nothing more than hand-waving bs. I rolled my eyes numerous times at its pretentiousness and pseudo-intellectual nonsense.Siskoid
I find it very interesting that cyberpunk is making a comeback now that 1) special effects have caught up with the imagery and 2) it's all coming true. William Gibson's The Peripheral (a late entry in his canon) gets the television treatment, headed by Chloë Grace Moretz as Flynne, an expert gamer a decade in our future, tapped to play a new "sim", but it turns out she's beamed to a cybernetic body (a "peripheral") decades in the future. What follows is a rich tapestry of temporal interference from that future, with various factions vying for control, while also keeping touch with the present (well, 2032, which has some interesting near-future world-building) and its cast of characters. Game theory also comes into it even if Flynne accesses reality. Fairly absorbing, even if the science-fiction can be heady (the first season's climax, for example, needs more explanation, which will only come in Season 2, one would imagine). But it's cool and well cast. Probably will require additional watch-throughs to really get the complex story to gel in my mind.