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ALTERED CARBON is set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored in cortical stacks implanted in the spine, allowing humans to survive physical death by having their memories and consciousness 're-sleeved' into new bodies. The story follows specially trained 'Envoy' soldier Takeshi Kovacs, who is downloaded from an off-world prison and into the body of a disgraced cop at the behest of Laurens Bancroft, a highly influential aristocrat. Bancroft was killed, and the last automatic backup of his stack was made hours before his death, leaving him with no memory of who killed him and why. While police ruled it a suicide, Bancroft is convinced he was murdered and wants Kovacs to find out the truth.
26 April 1990, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
4 September 1985, London, Ontario, Canada
6 July 1978, East Meadow, Long Island, New York, USA
February 01, 2018
This is a world rich with diverse and interesting characters, each with their own demons and issues.February 01, 2018
The sheer amount of imagining, both borrowed and original, accumulates into a vast, dirty world and gives Altered Carbon the feel of a proper cyberpunk novel: big, baggy, ambitious, trashy, funny, gruesome, clever, cheesy, and hyperactive.January 31, 2018
If you can get past that violence, or even through it, there's much to savor. Morgan's novel has been turned into a phantasmagoria of sights, sounds and details.February 02, 2018
Big issues of body, mind, identity and technology shuffle around the "Altered Carbon" universe, but the show often drags its feet in order to fill its individual episodes' running times.January 29, 2018
It's probably best not to ask too many questions, but simply revel in the neon-lit retro-futuro stylings and all the other good stuff.January 31, 2018
Every twist of the convoluted and ultimately unsatisfying plot puts Kovacs, and his combative police officer partner Kristin Ortega, into gruesome situations that edge into torture porn.February 01, 2018
It doesn't matter if Altered Carbon is a homage of a rip-off. The only thing that matters is that regardless of what it wants to be perceived as, it fails at the two key things: Being thought provoking and entertaining.February 01, 2018
It's fine, with some clever explorations of the virtual-immortality concept and a fun supporting performance by Chris Conner as Kovacs's sidekick.February 01, 2018
Yet for all of its bells and whistles, nothing about Altered Carbon feels very different or new or bold.January 22, 2018
It's a dark, violent and exploitative future, of course, but we wouldn't want it any other way.