🧠 “The Peripheral” – An Amazon Original Eight-Episodic American Sci-Fi Thriller Drama Series – S1 (First 2 Episodes) – The Peripheral is a 2022 American science fiction streaming television series executive produced and created by Scott Smith. Produced by Amazon, it is based on the 2014 book of the same name written by William Gibson.Set in the future when technology has changed society, a woman discovers a secret connection to an alternate reality as well as a dark future of her own.Stuck in a small Appalachian town, a young woman’s only escape from the daily grind is playing advanced video games. She is such a good player that a company sends her a new video game system to test…but it has a surprise in store. It unlocks all of her dreams of finding a purpose, romance, and glamour in what seems like a game…but it also puts her and her family in real danger.