Amazon has announced it has renewed the futuristic drama “The Peripheral,” based on “Neuromancer” and “Johnny Mnemonic” author William Gibson’s 2014 book of the same name, for a second season.
The series hails from creator Scott B. Smith and “Westworld” producers Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan. The eight-episode series premiered in October with a pair of episodes before wrapping its season on December 2nd.
Chloë Grace Moretz stars in the series as Flynne Fisher, a woman trying to hold together the pieces of her broken family in a forgotten corner of tomorrow’s America. Flynne is smart, ambitious, and doomed. She has no future, until the future comes calling for her.
Jack Reynor, Gary Carr, Eli Goree, Louis Herthum, JJ Feild, T’Nia Miller, Charlotte Riley and more co-star. The series made Nielsen’s top 10 streaming chart on the week of its finale, the only time it did so. Amazon has not released viewership data.
Reviews for the series were fairly mixed with reaction painting it as visually interesting with complicated world building, but also labelled it generic with criticism pointed at some fundamental plotting and characterisation.
The Warner Bros. TV-produced series marked the first Joy and Nolan developed as part of their nine-figure overall deal they signed in April 2019. They’re more hands on with their upcoming adaptation of the best-selling video game “Fallout”.
Smith, Nolan, Joy, Vincenzo Natali, Athena Wickham, Greg Plageman and Steven Hoban executive produce.
Source: THR
