What really matters is that the series hooks from the opening minutes and only builds the desire to binge episodes as it unrolls. Science fiction eats its own and always has (just as the most hardcore fans of the genre devour fellow fans in pointless arguments about originality, canon and execution).Ĭlearly, Altered Carbon, which took an epic, 15-year trip from book to optioned film rights to Netflix original series, will be subjected to the slings and arrows of both fans of the book and fans of other sci-fi series, but that’s all expected crossfire. Dick’s Electric Dreams was inextricably linked to Black Mirror, and Black Mirror was linked all the way back to The Twilight Zone. It’s impossible to not reference Blade Runner in connection with Altered Carbon, in the same way that Amazon’s recent Philip K. This is binge-ready sci-fi for the masses. Morgan’s 2002 cyberpunk sci-fi novel of the same name, Altered Carbon is a complicated, intriguing, ultraviolent, sex-filled and compelling blast, a visual delight that periodically gets tripped up with its writing but never enough to detour the experience.Īltered Carbon is flawed, but it’s also fantastic. Altered Carbon is very clearly Netflix’s colossus.
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