Advertisementĭirector Vincenzo Natali was a huge fan of Gibson's seminal 1984 novel Neuromancer and had worked on developing a film adaptation. The link between the two timelines is the titular black market technology, "peripherals," which are favored by hobbyists known as "continua enthusiasts." Running on "quantum servers," the peripherals digitally link the users to the past, and the moment they make direct contact, the past splits off into an alternate timeline called a "stub." The increasingly convoluted and interconnected plot involves a hunt for a missing woman named Aelita (Charlotte Riley), corporate espionage, political corruption, timeline shenanigans, and multiple attempts on Flynne's life. This world is essentially ruled by Russian oligarchs ("klepts"). The second arc takes place in a futuristic and desolate London in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event dubbed "the Jackpot," which wiped out 80 percent of the population. The twist: She actually is "there," but "there" isn't where, or when, she thinks it is. Flynne sometimes substitutes for Burton, and one day, he asks her to try a new kind of headset that introduces her to a virtual reality so vivid, it seems like she's really there. 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 Chloë 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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