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IMDb rating 7.6
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Karina Saltos
rated 8
1 year ago
Geyseane Nany
rated 9

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1 year ago
Critic Season 1 Allison Nichols
rated 7

...it’s easy to love Flynne and Burton. We are invested in them and this mystery they’ve found themselves in.

Read full review at Tell-Tale Tv
Viktor Svensson
rated 10

Wow what a serie

1 year ago
Critic Season 1 Reuben Baron
rated 7

The world-building in The Peripheral is brilliant.

Read full review at Paste Magazine
Critic Season 1 Lucy Mangan
rated 8

...it is a bravura rendition of Gibson’s tale, told with confidence by people I suspect will keep the plotting tight and the internal logic – whatever that may be – consistent.

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic Season 1 James Dyer
rated 6

A deftly constructed sci-fi series with an engaging mystery wrapped up in an intriguing bit of world(s)building spanning two disparate futures — even if humanity is so clearly fucked in both of them.

Read full review at Empire

Cast & Crew

Chloë Grace Moretz
As Flynne Fisher
JJ Feild
As Lev Zubov
Jack Reynor
As Burton Fisher
Chris Coy
As Jasper Baker
Louis Herthum
As Corbell Pickett
Charlotte Riley
As Aelita West
Katie Leung
As Ash

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In a dystopian future, a young woman named Flynne Fisher is struggling to hold together the pieces of her broken family. She's intelligent, ambitious, and doomed. But when she's offered the chance to test a cutting-edge video game system, she discovers a surprise that will change everything. The game unlocks all of her dreams of finding purpose, romance, and glamour in what seems like a game...but it also puts her and her family in real danger. As Flynne navigates this new world, she must confront the dark truth about her family's past and fight for their future. Will she be able to escape the periphery of society or will she succumb to its crushing weight?

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