The Peripheral
Created by Scott B. Smith
On Prime Video
A cyberpunk thriller that collapses the boundary between game and reality, trapping a small-town woman between two timelines and forcing her to confront both personal and existential stakes.
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.
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