The Peripheral (Season 1, 2022)

First up on Amazon Prime Video. It's a new sci-fi series called The Peripheral, and here's a clip your inside, what we call a peripheral. What do you. You think this is a game, but it's real.

It just hasn't happened yet. So this is from the team behind Westworld, and it follows a young woman called Flyn, who's played by kick ass actress, Chloe Grace Martz. Looking a lot more grown up in this. She works in a 3D printing shop and her brother earns money by playing computer games for other people and also trying out new games.

But she's actually much better gamer than he is. So, uh, sometimes she helps him out. So one day he gets sent this new. Strange looking headset to road test. And so he, he, he persuades his sister to do it. They're, they're quite poor. They're mum's ill, They need to raise money to get mum's medication and we first see her doing this, playing this game, which is a sort of war game.

It's incredibly realistic. But this new game, when she puts the headset on, she finds herself in a futuristic version of London. What's remarkable about him and it looks incredible. And also she is, the avatar is her brother, cuz the, the, the people who are hiring him think he's doing it. She's playing it, but it's his avatar.

Hopefully that makes sense. What's remarkable about this new game? Is that it's sensory, so she can feel everything that's going on. And the London Skyscape actually reminded me a bit of naughts and crosses, if you remember that dystopian drama with with giant statues on the skylight. This game. It starts off, she finds herself, she's riding along the streets of London on a motorbike in a computer game.

It looks amazing. And then someone's, she hears someone's voice who's giving her instructions on what to do in the game. She has to go to this very posh party. She has to seduce a woman at the party. I'm not gonna say anything. I don't wanna give you any spoilers, but things get very complicated back in the real world because of this game that she's testing.

If you're a sci-fi fan and if you are a gamer, You're gonna love it. It looks incredible. It's a brilliant premise. I really enjoyed it and it's very exciting as well. So, , what did you think, Hannah? I think you're right.

If you're our scifi fan, you will like it. But equally, if you are a gamer, it's actually a bit scary, isn't it?

Because I feel like each time as the world sort of moves on, it builds these things. Ever more, more credible basically, that it could actually happen. And it's re it's quite, um, the way they do it is quite clever, isn't it? And it's quite creepy in places and, and quite, um, gruesome as well. I'd say sort of.

There's a few moments that you kind of, well, I did anyway, but I'm a bit wet. Put your hand, you know, over your eyes. And I think. It's toying with the possibility of things happening, um, that you kind of, your brain tells you couldn't possibly happen. But as I say, it's, it, it's, it's blurring those lines and I think it does it really quite well.

And it should add, it arrives on Friday, the 21st, and there are eight episodes now.