The Peripheral Producer, Jonathan Nolan, On The Insights He Wants Us To Take From The Hit Series

…Oh, I wouldn’t take any moral lessons from anything I’ve ever worked on. That’s a categorical denial <laughs>. I think we’re more interested in asking questions, and the show does pose some really interesting ones.

It’s kind of hard to know where to begin, but one relevant question now, especially coming out of the pandemic, is that for many of us, our online, virtual selves are beginning to rival our physical selves in a kind of primacy.

The larger question is, which world is really in charge? As we create different layers of reality on top of our own, which is the one that’s really in control? I think that’s a really interesting question that everyone should be talking about as we navigate this uncharted, weird new world…