At the best of times, I am easily confused by hard sci-fi. Is this (she says, at time of going to press unsure of who the home secretary, chief whip and the PM might be by the time you read this) the best of times? No.
Fortunately, despite The Peripheral (Prime Video) being not just an adaptation of a William Gibson novel but one undertaken by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, creators of the mind-breaking Westworld, it starts off gently and allows those of us who are willing but not hugely able a fighting chance of understanding the thing.
