The future is coming back for a second season. Amazon has picked up another tranche of episodes for their television adaptation of William Gibson’s The Peripheral.
According to Variety, the show—executive produced by Westworld creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan and created and showrun by Scott B. Smith—will see the series protagonist, Flynne (Chloë Grace Moretz), returning for more time travel exploits. In the first season, Flynne turned to VR to pay the bills and found herself transported seventy years into the very-real future. Here’s Amazon’s official synopsis of season one:
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Flynne Fisher (Moretz), her Marine veteran brother, Burton (Jack Reynor), and their dying mother live in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains in 2032. As their mother’s health deteriorates and the medical bills add up, Flynne and Burton make extra money playing simulations (Sims). The two siblings share Burton’s avatar, “jockeying” for high-paying customers to beat challenging game levels. When Burton is offered a chance to beta test a new Sim, it’s Flynne who ends up playing, pretending to be her brother. The Sim takes place in London and it tasks Flynne with breaking into a corporation known as the Research Institute—to steal a valuable secret. When the assignment goes badly wrong, Flynne begins to realize the Sim is more real than she ever could have imagined. The London she’s exploring exists in the future…year 2099. And what Flynne has uncovered in the Research Institute has put her and her family in grave peril. There are people from the future who want to use Flynne for the information she’s stolen…and there are others who want Flynne dead. Flynne encounters Wilf (Gary Carr) in Future London, a man who may be the key to unlocking the mystery at hand. But first, in her present, Flynne and Burton, along with his former elite military unit, must rally to save themselves from forces intent on killing them—forces sent from the future to reclaim the vital secret Flynne stole.
I admit that I haven’t seen the first season, but I’m guessing that the show will see Flynne still entangled with military secrets from the future or at least dealing with the aftermath of that. Wherever the story goes, Amazon is unsurprisingly chuffed about the series’ continuation.
“William’s mind-bending story in partnership with the brilliant minds of Scott and Jonathan and Lisa, produced an unforgettable journey for our global audience and we are thrilled with how they embraced the series,” Vernon Sanders, head of global television at Amazon Studios, said in a statement. “We look forward to extending our partnership with Warner Bros. and Kilter Films as this uniquely ambitious series continues to unfold.”
“We are thrilled to continue the journey into Season Two and delve deeper into the incredible world that Gibson created,” Joy and Nolan said in the same statement. “On behalf of Scott Smith, [director] Vincenzo Natali, and the entire team, we’re grateful to our partners at Amazon and, most of all, to the fans.”
No news on when the second season of The Peripheral will hit Prime Video. In the meantime, you can (re)watch the first season on the streaming platform.
