Amazon’s The Peripheral turns a piercing William Gibson novel into generic sci-fi

The show is missing something.

Of all William Gibson’s books — most of which are considered unadaptable for so many reasons —is arguably the most well-suited to the screen as a series. On its face, the 2014 novel comes ready to go with a compelling tale-of-two-worlds premise: rural, small-town America meets a post-apocalyptic, nanotech-fueled London that follows the god-given European tradition of seeking to colonize anything with a profitable heartbeat.

Flynne ends up taking a job playing a new experimental sim set in London that requires wearing a mysterious headset. She realizes a little too late that something feels off, and she sees things that she shouldn’t be seeing. She meets Wilf Netherton , a contact for the shady Columbian company Milagros Coldiron that supposedly hired her for her gaming skills, and Aelita West , a mystery woman with an axe to grind.

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