Set over 350 years in the future, Netflix’s Altered Carbon follows United Nations Special Forces operative-turned-revolutionary Takeshi Kovacs. Based on the Takeshi Kovacs book trilogy, Netflix’s small screen adaptation vastly departs from the show’s source material and proceeds to tip toe around its themes of class divide, consumerism, warfare and political dystopia, like a tepid ballerina. The show commits to themes about as strongly as a twenty year old commits to, well, anything. This inability to commit to any subject matter is overshadowed only by the impressively poor writing of its primary characters. In a move that surprised the writers, viewers decided they wanted watchable protagonists and this inevitably led to the show’s cancellation.

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0:00 The Characters RUINED Netflix’s Altered Carbon
1:10 #5 Character Inconsistencies. Dimi the Twin
3:12 #4 Cliché Characterization. Kristin Ortega
4:32 #3 Lack of Agency. Reileen Kawahara
5:59 #2 Lack of history. Quellcrist Falconer
7:34 #1 Told and not shown. Takeshi Kovacs

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