Sucks ass. Avoid.
No significant or useful nudity and a lame story.
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MovieChat Forums > The Peripheral (2022) Discussion > Sucks ass. Avoid.
This partly comes from the book. There are too many characters and too little character and world building and the reader is supposed to infer a lot of things. They are indeed like NPCs. This is how Gibson writes them (judging from the few of his books I read). You are either in for the style and themes or you are not.
In the show they are trying to amend this by giving more background but I'm not sure that the writer has the abilities to completely fix it for you.
Thanks. I'll not read the book (because I hated Necromancer)
shareIt's Neuromancer. And I gave up on that novel because I just didn't know what was going on. Read like gibberish.
shareI'm watching the show now and I like it for the themes but not for the portrayals.
shareSame - I tried reading it twice, since it is often said to be one of the most definitive works of cyberpunk lit. It reads like a short story expanded to a novel-sized format - which means, there's a LOT of filler material and there might be a good short story hidden in that filler material, but it's not worth the time to figure out what the short story is, given how much crap you have to read to decipher it.
sharei've read like 5 books in my entire life and Neuromancer is actually one of them
shareits only 2 episodes...
shareThey’re relying a bit too much on country fuck hillbilly tropes. The scenes in rural America feel like a mishmash of Justified and Ozark, with maybe a dash of road House.
Chloe Grace Moritz is also mimicking Julia Garner’s Ruth from Ozark a little too closely.
Chloe's fake accent bothers me... The crackly voiced female pretending to be from the south.
shareI'm enjoying it so far.
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