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- 2018
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- Netflix
- 2018
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary The sci-fi series based on Richard K. Morgan's 2002 novel Carbon is set 300 years in the future where soldier Takeshi Kovacs (Will Yun Lee/Joel Kinnaman) awakens in a new body when he is freed from prison by Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy), who wants him to solve his murder.
Created By: Laeta Kalogridis
- 2018
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2018
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Altered Carbon
Season 1 Premiere: Feb 2, 2018
64
7.2
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Summary The sci-fi series based on Richard K. Morgan's 2002 novel Carbon is set 300 years in the future where soldier Takeshi Kovacs (Will Yun Lee/Joel Kinnaman) awakens in a new body when he is freed from prison by Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy), who wants him to solve his murder.
Created By: Laeta Kalogridis
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
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52% Positive
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48% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
64
52% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
48% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Think of Altered Carbon as a cyberpunk “Game of Thrones,” except that winter is already here, three centuries into the future.
The roads that Altered Carbon takes to its destination aren’t new to us but enough of us have enjoyed previous versions of these trips to appreciate this version of the ride.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 972 User Ratings
7.2
69% Positive
670 Ratings
670 Ratings
15% Mixed
142 Ratings
142 Ratings
16% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 972 User Ratings
7.2
69% Positive
670 Ratings
670 Ratings
15% Mixed
142 Ratings
142 Ratings
16% Negative
160 Ratings
160 Ratings
Very twisted, edge of your seat kind of show. The futuristic setting is original. I was happy with the outcome.
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Soooooo sad to see this one go. Season 2 was very good. Season 1 was an absolute masterpiece. The depth. The tones. The futuristic grit. Mixing the familiar with the non. Using sci-fi elements to comment on today's issues. Around episode 3, I knew this show was meant for me.
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The show’s thought experiment about the end of death in the future is particularly intriguing. What isn’t so thrilling about Altered Carbon is the complexity of the story lines set within the carefully imagined cosmos. The more we learn about Kinnaman’s Takeshi Kovacs, the more slippery the show becomes. ... Kinnaman is good enough to rise above the chaos.
This show tackles race, gender, and class with all the subtlety of a blowtorch. (Also: There is a blowtorch.) I’m happy to live in a future where studios pay big money for sexy-violent meditations on the slippery state of humanity--and there’s a real promise for far-out further seasons--but right now Altered Carbon is all sleeve and no stack.
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.
Altered Carbon tries to meld a dystopian class-warfare story and a hard-boiled detective story by simply piling on both the pseudo-philosophical blather (much of it delivered in voice-over by Renée Elise Goldsberry as a rebel leader and Kovacs’s former lover) and the film-noir clichés. ... Mr. Kinnaman wears a bad attitude as easily as most actors wear a shirt, but playing a reluctant Philip Marlowe-style gumshoe with the soul of a freedom fighter (the embodiment of the show’s dual nature) doesn’t suit him, and he lacks his usual spark.
Netflix has taken more than a few flyers on big, splashy, time-wasting projects, and Altered Carbon -- a sci-fi experiment gone awry -- joins that pantheon of the quickly forgettable. Based on Richard K. Morgan's novel, the series looks great -- starting with Joel Kinnaman, who spends a lot of time showing off his commitment to the gym -- but in terms of substance, offers little more than an empty sleeve.
Enjoyed Season 1 and thought it had the fantastic potential for growth, quite similar to Westworld Season 1 -> 2. Unfortunately, just like Westworld, Season 2 of Altered Carbon wriggles around in what should be a more profound realization of the Sci-Fi created in Season 1, become reductive and bland. There are glimmers of proper development, but they're overshadowed by two-dimensional characters in which we vest nothing. The spectacle and illusion are beautiful, but that's about it.
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An interesting story, something different from your average show. Season 1 was a 9/10 for me, season 2 is more of a 2. It's a good thing that they've cancelled this show, instead of continuing with a third season they should remake season 2 first. Normally I'd say if you have nothing to do it's okay to watch a 'bad' movie or series, but in this case just don't... Just keep it with season 1 and forget that season 2 exists.
Imho I think it's actually an achievement to start something so good and then just f*ck it up so bad.
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Production Company:
- Mythology Entertainment
- Skydance Television
Initial Release Date: Feb 2, 2018
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
The CAFTCAD awards
• 5 Nominations
Visual Effects Society Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Hollywood Professional Association Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
