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âALTERED CARBONâ IS STILL THE WILDEST SCI-FI SERIES ON TELEVISION The Netflix series, which returned for a second season on Thursday, is to hard sci-fi what âThe Witcherâ is to high fantasy: sprawling, dense, fun, and weird as hell By Miles Surrey Feb 27, 2020, 6:00am ESTSHARE THIS STORY
* Share this on Facebook (opens in new window) * Share this on Twitter (opens in new window) * Share All sharing options SHARE ALL SHARING OPTIONS FOR: âALTERED CARBONâ IS STILL THE WILDEST SCI-FI SERIES ON TELEVISION * Flipboard (opens in new window) * Email (opens in new window) Netflix/Ringer illustration When the protagonists of_ The Good Place _(spoiler alert) finally headed to the actual Good Place in the showâs closing episodes,
they ran into an obstacle: heaven was broken. The Good Placeâs inhabitants were basically zombified by everlasting blissâturns out, when it comes to immortality and the afterlife, you _can_ have too much of a good thing. The solution the series provided was simple, but effective: Once a person felt real fulfillment and closure, they could opt out of nirvana for a âdeathâ where they truly ceased to exist, their essence becoming one with the universe. In its own compelling way, _The Good Place_ emphasized how deathâon Earth and in the afterlifeâis essential to the human experience. If _The Good Place_ showed the ill effects of immortality in heaven, then the Netflix series _Altered Carbon_ demonstrates the dangers of opting out of death entirely. Set hundreds of years in the future, humanity has developed a technology that can digitize a personâs consciousness onto a âStack,â a small device that is inserted in oneâs neck. That means there is less of an emphasis on and value placed in human bodies, now known colloquially as âSleeves,â since people can body hop and, if they so choose, stay young and live forever. But while the Stack technology was initially created for space explorationâwhy travel for decades through the cosmos when you can just transfer your consciousness onto a Sleeve on a faraway planet?âit has been commodified by the 1-percent and basically has turned them into gods. The ĂŒberwealthy of _Altered Carbon_, called âMeths,â can have tons of Sleeves, create clones of their preferred Sleeve body, and have remote backups of their Stacks in case something were to happen to the original Stack. The working class, meanwhile, are mostly priced out of such luxuriesâwidening the wealth gap to an alarming degree. (Bernie, my guy, watch _Altered Carbon_!) And with human bodies deemed expendable, extreme violence is desensitized to the extent that fighting to Sleeve death is a form of entertainment; wealthy men can maim and murder prostitutesâso long as they donât damage their Stack and actually kill them. (Or, as they call it in the show, âReal Death.â) Welcome to hell. This is as concise a description of _Altered Carbon_ as I can musterâthe series is sprawling, dense, and weird as hell. I havenât even gotten to the AI hotel manager built around the image of Edgar Allan Poe, an idea that sounds like it was conceived in a stonerâs basement but I assure you is a very real thing. Watching the first few episodes, youâll probably need to consult an _AlteredCarbon_ glossary
to
keep track of what the hell is going on. When the first season debuted in 2018, it was rumored to be one of the most expensive series Netflix had ever produced; thatâs quite surprising given that the series is an adaptation of a Richard K. Morgan novel of the same namethat
would mostly interest a limited number of hardcore sci-fi devotees looking for a show with the cyberpunk sensibilities of_ Blade Runner_, _Ghost in the Shell_, and _The Matrix_. Of course, itâs hard to know just how popular a series is because Netflix doesnât disclose most of its viewing numbers, but the fact that _Altered Carbon_ was renewed for a second season must mean enough people watched the first season to justify another absurd spending spree. But perhaps the best way to understand _Altered Carbon_âs appeal is to compare it to another reportedly expensive genre series, _The Witcher_, which hit Netflix with a lot of fanfare and one extremely catchy song. (Sorry if I just got âToss a Coin to Your Witcherâstuck in your head
again, but at least itâs an absolute banger.) When itâs firing on all cylinders, _Altered Carbon_ is to hard sci-fi what _The Witcher_ is to high fantasy: a series that just plunges you into its strange and meticulously detailed world, one thatâs fun and accessible as long as you understand that the ridiculousness is part of the appeal.
Because the characters of _Altered Carbon_ arenât necessarily restricted to one body, the series can have multiple actors that serve as Sleeves for one Stack. The showâs main protagonist, a rogue mercenary named Takeshi Kovacs, already has been played by three actors: Joel Kinnaman (in Season 1), Will Yun Lee (in flashbacks as the characterâs original Sleeve), and Anthony Mackie (in Season 2). (This is a minor spoiler but, were the show to be renewed for a third season, it would set the stage for yet another actor to portray Kovacs in place of Mackie, whoâll be busy playing the next Captain America.)
The second season is set 30 years after the first, with Kovacs searching the known universe for the stored Stack of his lover, the incredibly named Quellcrist Falconer, who was responsible for creating the Stack technology in the first place. After Stacks were used to extend human life in perpetuity, Falconer formed a rebellion whose platform was basically Make Mortality Great Againâwhich is how she and Kovacs crossed paths and fell in love centuries ago. Kovacsâs quest leads him back to his home planet, Harlanâs World, where heâs hired by a Meth as protection from an assassin whoâs been killing all the planetâs original, wealthy founders. As was the case in the first seasonâwhen Kovacs was hired by a wealthy man in Cyberpunk San Francisco to investigate his own murder, since his rebooted Stack didnât restore the memories of his deathâthe mystery of the assassin, the planet, and how it relates to Falconer will embroil Kovacs in a complex power struggle that asks probing questions about what it means to be human. But while thatâs all well and goodâand I could go into plot specifics and the absurdity of AI Edgar Allan Poe for another 2,000 words, which neither you nor my exasperated editor would wantâwhat makes _Altered Carbon_ a rewarding experience is feeling immersed is its cybernetic future and, more importantly, how it enables the series to create entertainingly preposterous fight scenes. One of the wildest things Iâve ever seen on television happened in _Altered Carbon_âs first season, when a character kept getting gunned down and rebooted into a naked, replicant bodyâthe process repeating itself until there were literally dozens of corpses on the floor. There is nothing quite like that in Season 2, but Kovacsâs new Stack (i.e., Anthony Mackie) comes with enhanced cybernetic upgrades that simply fucking rip. Mackie-as-Kovacs is biometrically linked to his weapons, meaning he can summon dual-wielding pistols into his hands like Thor with Mjölnir. That nifty trick has the unintended consequence of making you want to grab a controller and turn _Altered Carbon_ into a video game. His new Stack is alsoâI canât believe Iâm typing thisâinfused with _canine DNA_, because the only way to make supersoldiers more effective is, I suppose, to give them the genetic traits of an actual wolfpack. Sadly, this upgrade doesnât lead to an acclaimed actor howling like a wolf. _Altered Carbon _is still inconsistent and sometimes too confusing for its own good, which, like _The Witcher_, prevents it from belonging in the upper echelons of Peak TV. But thereâs something to be said about the power of such rich, distinctive world-buildingâespecially in a series with such a prescient message about class divides, violence, and the nature of identity. Absurd as it may be at times, the futuristic universe of _Altered Carbon_ feels _real_, and that authenticity justifies Netflixâs decision to spare no expense.
Like _The Witcher_, an equally strange and endearing series in which Henry Cavill mostly grunts, fights monsters, and takes baths, I hope _Altered Carbon_ and the many bodies of Takeshi Kovacs are here to stay. Television might be in the midst of a sci-fi boom,
but despite surface similarities to _Ghost in the Shell_ and _Blade Runner_, _Altered Carbon_ has enough unique DNA to stand on its own, apart from its genre peers. Netflix might as well toss a coin to a fewmore Sleeves.
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