![]() ![]() Burton works security for a video game/virtual world maintained by a company called Milagros Coldiron. Flynne's brother Burton (Jack Reynor) is a veteran of the US Marine Corps' elite Haptic Recon force and suffers from brain trauma resulting from his cybernetic implants. ![]() Flynne works at the local 3D-printing shop in a small town. The first arc takes place in our near-term future and is centered on a young woman named Flynne (Moretz). But as with Gibson's novel, there are two plot lines that eventually begin to converge in the series. There are obviously some key divergences from the source material, as befits a TV adaptation. (Minor spoilers below, but no major reveals.) It's those features that make the novel so challenging to adapt for television, but Prime Video managed to pull off that feat with its new nine-episode series, The Peripheral, starring Chloƫ Grace Moretz. Sci-fi legend William Gibson's 2014 densely layered novel The Peripheral ingeniously combines elements of noir murder mystery, time travel, and the author's trademark cyberpunk futurism. ![]()
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