The Peripheral

• Title: The Peripheral – Jackpot
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Our story continues to stall in “Jackpot” with the latest episode of The Peripheral jumping around the timeline focusing on various conversations and once again no movement being made in the search for Aelita West (Charlotte Riley). The best of these comes at the very end of the episode where Flynne (Chloë Grace Moretz) discovers what the future has in store for the world. The worst is the verbal sparring between Lev (JJ Feild) and Cherise (T’Nia Miller) which if full of sci-fi gobbledygook the show hasn’t gotten around to making sense of yet (and, honestly, I have little interest in).

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• Title: The Peripheral – Haptic Drift
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The third episode of the series feels a bit like The Peripheral is treading water without making much headway while refusing to do more than hint and larger ideas and secrets. What “Haptic Drift” does deliver is Burton (Jack Reynor) making an arrangement with Pickett (Louis Herthum), more of T’Nia Miller‘s character working against our heroine (for reasons still not explained), some information and backstory on more supporting characters I don’t have reason to care about yet, and Flynne (Chloë Grace Moretz) returning to the future and finding the secret apartment of her earlier visit but still no sign of the missing Aelita West (Charlotte Riley). “Haptic Drift” continues to be stronger within the sim than in reality, although a mystery that doesn’t make any headway could get equally tiresome quickly.

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• Title: The Peripheral – Empathy Bonus
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While Burton (Jack Reynor)  and his soldier buddies deal with the mercenaries and the fallout of their attack on the house, Flynne Fisher (Chloë Grace Moretz) returns to virtual reality for answers meeting the fixer Wilf Netherton (Gary Carr) and his boss who need Flynne’s help in finding the missing Aelita West (Charlotte Riley). The episode continues to be intentionally cagey with the reasons for why Aelita is needed and why Flynn needs to be the one to find her in ways that feel more for the audience’s benefit than for legitimate story reasons (as a more straightforward approach would likely have been quicker to earn her trust).

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• Title: The Peripheral – Pilot
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The opening episode of The Peripheral introduces us to as talented gamer Flynne Fisher (Chloë Grace Moretz) who would rather spend her time in the real world than VR trying to support her ailing mother (Melinda Page Hamilton) and sketchy older brother (Jack Reynor) who often enlists her help on his various schemes. With enough trouble in the real world, Flynne isn’t looking for trouble in VR as well but that’s what happens when she helps her brother test a new Sim unlike anything either of them has seen before.

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