Because while watching Altered Carbon - even the stuff I didn’t like all that much - my primary critical reaction was, “This is so RAD !!!!” Imagine me sitting in the back of eighth-grade study hall, filling my notebook with scrawled images from this show (that my parents don’t know I’ve seen, because if they did, my Netflix consumption would be seriously questioned), occasionally clicking over my four-color pen to red to write the word “rad” in all caps in the margins. It even touches on environmental issues in a few sidelong glances.īut that is not what I’m here to talk to you about. It touches on just how much of our morality is driven by the fact that we die and what might happen if death suddenly stopped being an endpoint and, instead, became a minor stopgap in an ultimately immortal life. It delves into misogynistic power structures and the nature of identity. The show touches on income inequality and classism.
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The trailer does not accurately represent how important Trepp is to season 2.There are a lot of serious topics covered in Altered Carbon, a new science fiction series from Netflix. That may mean there will not be another season. Instead there was a feel-good ending that was unusual for this grim tale. It felt like an end when the last episode concluded. Four of the episodes were directed by women: Salli Richardson-Whitfield and M.J. In addition to the largely female cast, the series was created by Laeta Kalogridis. Season 2, streaming on Netflix, has 8 episodes. The conflict over whether people should die a ‘real death’ when their time is up or be resleeved to live again is a central question. There are love stories and philosophical moments. The series is action packed, complicated, and interspersed with human moments and interactions. When I heard Simone Missick was part of the main cast, I gave it another chance. I almost didn’t watch season 2 because of that very problem in season 1. Living forever apparently doesn’t bring up any new weapon ideas.ĭespite the heavily female cast, there’s a lot of blood and violence in Altered Carbon.
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This world is full of flashy, creative, high tech ideas, but the characters still carry around metal guns that shoot body-mangling bullets. She and Poe develop a thing, which is the sweetest part of this often violent and bloody drama. But Dig 301 (Dina Shihabi) comes into the story. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Poe (Chris Conner) suffers from frequent glitches this season. Carrera was known as Jaeger in season 1 and worked to train Kovacs, the man he now seeks to kill. Carrera (Torben Liebrecht) to run her army. She wants rule the world unchecked by any outside power. She wants to kill Kovacs, Quell, Trepp, and anyone else in her way. She’s determined to seize complete control. Ruthless villain Danica Harlanĭanica Harlan (Lela Loren) runs the planet. And, he’s always on the lookout for his sister, Reileen (Dichen Lachman). He’s also involved in efforts to defeat the leaders of the planet they are on, Harlan’s World. Kovacs is involved in many parts of an ongoing rebellion lead by Quellcrist Falconer (Renée Elise Goldsberry). Trepp and Kovacs form a team, although each have different goals. Quell trained Kovacs, the last remaining Envoy, and is the love of his life. She and her wife run a business and have roots on the planet. Trepp has a wife, Myka (Sharon Taylor), and son, TJ (Orlando Lucas).
She lives on the planet Kovacs finds himself on and gets tangled in his battles. Trepp the bounty hunterĬostarring with Kovacs this season is Simone Missick. We also see the original Kovacs (Will Yun Lee) in many episodes and occasional glimpse of Joel Kinnaman in the part as well. The premise of this futuristic sci-fi adventure is that a person’s stack (their personality and memories) can be inserted into any sleeve (body). In season 2 of Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs is played by Anthony Mackie. As in season 1, it’s a complex sci-fi drama with many characters’ stories interwoven. Altered Carbon, season 2, puts Takeshi Kovacs 300 years in the future on a planet run by a money grubbing President.
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