New On Prime Video For October 2022: The Peripheral, Downton Abbey: A New Era

gamespot.com:

Prime Video is getting lots of new content in October, including a selection of TV shows and movies alongside other originals. It's almost Halloween, so you can expect lots of horror picks, but also plenty of variety.

The Peripheral, an upcoming sci-fi streaming series based on the 2014 William Gibson book of the same name, will be coming to Amazon Prime Video on October 21. Co-created by author and screenwriter Scott Smith (Siberia, The Burnt Orange Heresy), the show is also executive produced by Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy--which gives further reasons to be enthused and curious about the series. In The Peripheral, Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) stars as Flynne Fisher, a woman trying to hold together the pieces of her broken family in a forgotten corner of tomorrow's America--she also earns «much-needed extra money playing VR games for rich people» but quickly learns the virtual world she's visiting is real, and being exploited by someone in London from 70 years in the future. Check out a trailer below.

Then, on October 28, like it or love it--you can't avoid it either way--Downton Abbey: A New Era

is coming to Prime Video. The popular British historical drama Downton Abbey's movie spinoff sequel hit theaters earlier this year, where it took in $92.8 million at the box office. The series, and both movies, are set in the fictional titular Yorkshire country estate, and through its aristocratic characters and their servants, chronicles events that have an impact on the British social hierarchy. In this slightly meta sequel, a film production company wants to use Downton to shoot a silent film--which divides alliances until it's realized that however disruptive the production might be, it will bring in