‘The Peripheral’ Canceled at Amazon Despite Season 2 Renewal
variety.com
“The Peripheral” has been canceled at Amazon’s Prime Video, Variety has learned. The news comes despite the fact that Amazon renewed the show for a second season back in February.…

I’m amazed season two wasn’t already finished before the strike. The last episode aired in 2022. What were they doing all year?

  • Yosawya san@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    54·
    1 year ago

    Dang. That blows. This is a really good show. Smart, innovative, well acted, and based on Gibson’s best-selling material. It just kills me how adaptations of his works seem to always whither on the vine. Also sad that every show that doesn’t hit super-mega streamed numbers just gets tossed in the bin.

    • HubertManne@kbin.social
      13·
      1 year ago

      Yeah it was one of the better things they had going. Would easily pull the lotr or wot series as they were not very in line with the literature. At least this was its own creation (or im just unaware of what book series it comes from so was not disapointed.)

      • Yosawya san@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, it’s from two published books so far, called the “Jackpot” series. The Jackpot is a Black Swan Event that decimates the population in the future and creates a new kind of techno-oligarchical society. These future oligarchs are in constant conflict with each other and as such develop a way in which to infiltrate the past through VR sims to alter their destiny.

    • chase_what_matters@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      I got a little lost following the plot with this one to be honest. There are some shows I whip out my phone because I don’t anticipate it being that complicated, and I made a miscalculation with this one.

      • Yosawya san@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I think it’s a bit easier to digest if you have some background with Gibson’s world building. It didn’t seem like it was too opaque to me, but I’m coming in with a bit of previous context. I think you’d find that Gibson’s writing is a lot more opaque when you start one of his books. He writes notoriously short chapters at times and tosses from one POV to another rather often. It can be disorienting but it is intentional. Like when you watch a thriller that seems inchoate going in, flooding you with disparate unresolved information, then when it’s snaps together, you get the satisfaction of mentally revisiting all those previous clues/details with that “ah ha!” feeling. I believe it’s meant to work this way. It’s a more satisfying reward for the reader/watcher.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Given the comments people in the know had said, about the renewal being “a mistake,” I’m sadly not as surprised as I would have been. I had expected S2 to be the final season, but to pull the season completely even after the renewal is just sad.

  • Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    26·
    1 year ago

    We’re safer watching anime at this point. Still angry about 1899 getting canceled. Wish it was possible for someone to pick it up other than Netflix or for Netflix to uncancel it.

    • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      I am so glad 1899 got cancelled. One of the worst shows I’ve seen in years.

      And it’s one of the worst because it clearly had money to look great, and they decided to make the shittiest story, with the biggest plot-holes ever, and then finally finish it off like “yeah, nothing makes sense AND THAT’S THE POINT”… cheapest story ever.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      1 year ago

      For what it’s worth, the book is incredible. I haven’t seen the show (tells you everything about how badly they marketed this that Amazon damn well knows I’ve read the book and yet never heard a peep about the show being a thing… You’d think with all that targeted advertising that this is one thing they could get right), but I can tell you that the novel took my breath away. Gibson has always been a master of his craft, but this is really something else, easily one of his best works.

    • mPony@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      That’s my bet right now.
      It’s obvious there **can **be a second season, at some point, it’s just a question of who makes it available.

  • ours@lemmy.filmEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Not super surprised. It looked expensive but wasn’t making much noise. People just didn’t seem to talk about the show. A shame since it was an intriguing and well made show.

  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    Looks like I have the unpopular opinion here but the whole show felt hollow. I just didn’t believe the male protagonist felt anything for his sister, unit, friends, etc. The emotion wasn’t there.

    • Pringles@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      I agree. I tried to like it and got like 5 or 6 episodes in, but while the story is interesting, the acting was anything but.

      • Blxter@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I agree to an extent I think the female acting was good and some of the future people’s were solid but the unit and brother yea were kinda bad. But I liked the story alot and was excited for another season.