“The Peripheral” Aims to Fill the High-Concept Sci-Fi Void “Westworld” Left Behind
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Image caption: Wilf (Gary Carr) and Flynne (Chloë Grace Moretz) in “The Peripheral.” Image courtesy of Prime Video. Article by Cheryl Eddy. Gizmodo – October 20, 2022.
Ten years from now, a young woman in the rural South turns to a lucrative side hustle to pay for her mother’s medical treatment: playing virtual reality games to help rich clients level up. But as we see in “The Peripheral,” her latest gig is far more than a game, and the world it opens up is incredibly vivid, dangerous, and complex. […]