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30) The Peripheral Finale Was Too Confusing to Be Satisfying

Photo: Sophie Mutevelian/Prime Video
Photo: Sophie Mutevelian/Prime Video

The Peripheral—Prime Video’s William Gibson adaptation from the producers of Westworld—explored some intriguing ideas in its tale of a young woman whose virtual-reality adventuring vaults her into a broken version of the future. But today’s season finale felt like a scramble to the finish; there was too much going on in too little time, with an end that felt too abrupt to be satisfying… and required rewinds to make sense.

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