The Peripheral Season 2: Amazon Prime has canceled the show due to ongoing strikes. Here’s everything you need to know!
The Peripheral is a science fiction drama television series created by Scott B. Smith. The Peripheral, based on the William Gibson novel of the same name, was set in a not-too-distant future in which virtual reality programming has advanced and fundamentally altered society.
The plot revolves around a VR player who is gifted a connection to an alternate reality as well as a dark future of her own, set around a decade in the future, with new technology that has transformed society in subtle ways. This ambitious science fiction drama from the creators of Westworld premiered on Amazon Prime Video in October 2022 and quickly acquired popularity.
And ever since it ended, fans have been eagerly awaiting a second season with even bigger hopes. So, has it been renewed? If so, when will it premiere? Here’s everything you need to know about The Peripheral Season 2. Continue reading!
When will The Peripheral Season 2 premiere?
Unfortunately, Prime Video will not be releasing the second season of its science fiction drama series The Peripheral as originally planned. Despite the fact that Amazon gave the series a renewal in February 2023, the ongoing actors’ and writers’ strike has forced the cancellation of the show.
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According to a report in Deadline, the cancellation stems from the length of the work stoppage due to the ongoing WGA strike, now in its 115th day, and the SAG-AFTRA strike, in Day 52, which have delayed production, creating large gaps between seasons and making shows miss their target release dates.
Also, the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes have forced many streaming providers to make quick judgments on the future of their shows, putting numerous shows in jeopardy of cancellation. Talking about The Peripheral, the series was intended to begin production this year for a 2024 release, but that no longer appears to be the case. It was in early pre-production when the WGA strike started on May 2, 2023.
What will it be about?
The Peripheral centers on Flynne Fisher (Moretz), 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.
We don’t know what the plot of The Peripheral Season 2 was going to be since it has now been canceled. But there is one thing we know we could have anticipated, Flynn’s return to our reality. There is really no way to tell how she was going to pull it off. But given how significant she was to the cast, she would have had to.
To get there, however, there was still a brand-new timeline to investigate, as well as alternate lives for each of the main characters in this new world, and depending on possible changes to the timeline, there was also a possibility that some characters hadn’t actually died in this version of time. But now, Fans must just bid their goodbyes to the show and accept the fate that season 1 has to offer.
Who is in the cast?
If there ever be a second season, the following cast is expected to return. Check out the list below:
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Flynne Fisher
- Gary Carr as Wilf Netherton
- Jack Reynor as Burton Fisher
- JJ Feild as Lev Zubov
- T’Nia Miller as Cherise Nuland
- Louis Herthum as Corbell Pickett
- Katie Leung as Ash
- Melinda Page Hamilton as Ella Fisher
- Chris Coy as Jasper Baker
- Alex Hernandez as Tommy Constantine
- Julian Moore-Cook as Ossian
- Adelind Horan as Billy Ann Baker
- Austin Rising as Leon
- Eli Goree as Conner Penske
- Charlotte Riley as Aelita West
Where to watch The Peripheral?
All the episodes of The Peripheral Season 1 are exclusively available to watch on Amazon Prime.
