![]() Altered Carbon imagines a near-future world in which humanity has figured out how to cheat death: by slipping our personalities into discs in the back of the neck, known as "stacks," that can then bounce from body to body. Otherwise, this book's filmed series nails something really important in TV sci-fi: it raises obvious existential questions without talking down to viewers. Brutality and subtlety require different measurements in books and on screen, and this is possibly Altered Carbon's greatest failing. Bad guys don't look worse because more blood gushes or because we see how horrifically prostitutes are beaten. ![]() But in fulfilling a promise of book authenticity, Skydance Media's take on Altered Carbon turns words into blood and genitalia-and often with little character-development payoff. The compliment that I want to give this series is how awesome it could otherwise play for any sci-fi hungry teenagers in your life-for young adults coming to terms with identity, morality, and altruism. ![]() ![]() In my dream world, Netflix would create an entirely new edit of Altered Carbon's first season that pulls a few of its needlessly violent and sexual punches-let alone the egregious moments that gratuitously combine those two extremes. The locals don't take too kindly to upgraded sleeves 'round these parts. ![]()
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