Why do all my favorites have to get canceled? Midnight Mass was better than nearly all the other Mike Flanagan works. It was so textured and it had a frame story and was just so much fun.
And with The Peripheral being renewed and then canceled, I am truly verklempt. In that show I dearly love the scene where the protag Flynne gets annoyed that when she is not occupying it they keep her robot body in some ugly wooden crate. I don’t know what she was expecting with that.
Flynne was such a great character and one that I wish I’d gotten to see more of. However, I wouldn’t want some creepy empty body staring at me either, so I would’ve also stored her peripheral out of sight when not in use. But perhaps not in a wooden box.
To be more serious, Flynne feels it’s dehumanizing that her peripheral be stored in an ugly crate as the body she occupies is her for all intents and purposes. And that’s what makes it a great scene and setup: We can understand both her point of view and that of those who toss her empty vessel in a crate when she’s not “there.”
Two of my favorite shows, both nuked before their times.