Amazon have released a teaser for The Peripheral, a new series from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy.

Somewhat like Westworld, it all appears quite mundane at the beginning and on the surface, but gets seriously funky and then some.

With the teaser we get a premiere date of October 21.

Not long to wait.

Season two has also this week been listed in Production Weekly magazine.

Amazon must really like what they've seen.

We enjoyed Westworld though its viewership hasn't been strong and with Warner Bros. cutting costs, it doesn't seem especially likely to get a fifth season.

Perhaps The Peripheral can scratch the same itch?

It's based on a book and full plot details are available, but should we look?

Might be more enjoyable to just watch it all unfold on screen.

The synopsis accompanying the teaser almost sounds like a less friendly Quantum Leap in reverse.

The Peripheral centers on 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. The Peripheral is master storyteller William Gibson’s dazzling, hallucinatory glimpse into the fate of mankind — and what lies beyond.

Flynne Fisher lives in the rural American South, working at the local 3D printing shop, while earning much needed extra money playing VR games for rich people. One night she dons a headset and finds herself in futuristic London—a sleek and mysterious world, alluringly different from her own hardscrabble existence.

But this isn’t like any game she’s ever played before: Flynne begins to realize it isn’t virtual reality… it’s real. Someone in London, seventy years in the future, has found a way to open a door to Flynne’s world. And as utterly beguiling as London is… it’s also dangerous. As Flynne searches to discover who has connected their worlds, and for what purpose, her presence here sets dangerous forces into motion…forces intent on destroying Flynne and her family in her own world.

The Peripheral premieres on Prime Video on October 21.

[ Main Image: The Peripheral teaser. Credit: Prime Video via YouTube. ]

References

Prime Video (September 9, 2022). The Peripheral Season 1 - Teaser Trailer | Prime Video. YouTube.

Production Weekly (September 7, 2022). Production Weekly – Issue 1315 – Thursday, September 8, 2022 / 135 Listings – 31 Pages.

Wikipedia. The Peripheral. (viewed September 9, 2022)

Wikipedia. The Peripheral (TV series). (viewed September 9, 2022)

Wikipedia. Westworld (TV series). (viewed September 9, 2022)