🧠🌐 The Peripheral (2022): The future is real—but only when you enter it.

"The future already happened. She's living its consequences."

The Peripheral transports us to a haunting crossroads between tomorrow and now—a world where virtual realities bleed into physical ones, and power no longer wears a human face. Based on William Gibson’s novel, the series weaves a dense and cerebral sci-fi thriller, equal parts tech-noir and existential mystery.

Flynne Fisher (Chloë Grace Moretz), a sharp young woman from a rural American town, stumbles into a simulation that isn't quite simulated. Hired to beta-test an experimental VR headset, she finds herself piloting a synthetic body in a sleek, dystopian London seventy years in the future. But what starts as an immersive game becomes something far more lethal—because what happens in that future world affects her real one.

The London of tomorrow is ruled by shadowy kleptocrats, post-human overlords, and AI-driven manipulation. Flynne becomes a pawn in a temporal war where time itself is weaponized, and the past is just another battleground to exploit. Her family is drawn into danger, and her grip on reality thins as she uncovers just how much has already been rewritten.

Darkly imaginative, visually stunning, and pulsing with philosophical dread, The Peripheral questions who controls the future—and whether the people of the present have any power left to change it.