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Altered Carbon (2018 — 2020)

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TitleAltered Carbon
Year2018 — 2020
CountryUSA
GenreScience Fiction (TV Shows)
CollectionRobots
Run Time55 min
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The series takes place over 360 years in the future, with most episodes the first season set in the year 2384 in a futuristic metropolis known as Bay City. In the future, a person’s memories and consciousness (termed digital human freight, or DHF) are recorded onto a disk-shaped device called a cortical stack, which is implanted in the vertebrae at the back of the neck. These storage devices are of alien design and have been reverse-engineered and mass-produced but can only be made from the material on Harlan’s World. Physical human or synthetic bodies are called “sleeves” and stacks can be transferred to new bodies after death, but a person can still be killed if their stack is destroyed and there is no backup. Only the wealthiest, known as “Meths” in reference to Methuselah, have the means to change bodies through clones and remote storage of their consciousness in satellites, so they never have to die of old age before being resleeved.

Takeshi Kovacs, a political operative with mercenary skills, is the sole surviving soldier of the Envoys, a rebel group defeated in an uprising against the new world order. In the first season, set 250 years after the Envoys are destroyed, his stack is pulled out of prison by 300-year-old Meth Laurens Bancroft, one of the wealthiest men in the settled worlds. Bancroft offers him the chance to solve a murder—Bancroft’s own—to get a new shot at life. In the second season, set 30 years later, Kovacs, now in a new sleeve, continues to search for his lost love and Envoy leader Quellcrist Falconer.

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Cast:

Joel Kinnaman Joel Kinnaman
Takeshi Kovacs (1)
Chris Conner Chris Conner
Poe (1-2)
Renée Elise Goldsberry Renée Elise Goldsberry
Quellcrist Falconer (1-2)
Will Yun Lee Will Yun Lee
Original Takeshi Kovacs (1-2)
James Purefoy James Purefoy
Laurens Bancroft (1)
Martha Higareda Martha Higareda
Kristin Ortega (1)
Dichen Lachman Dichen Lachman
Reileen Kawahara (1)
Ato Essandoh Ato Essandoh
Vernon Elliot (1)
Kristin Lehman Kristin Lehman
Miriam Bancroft (1)
Trieu Tran Trieu Tran
Mr. Leung (1)
Anthony Mackie Anthony Mackie
Takeshi Kovacs (2)
Lela Loren Lela Loren
Danica Harlan (2)
Dina Shihabi Dina Shihabi
Dig 301 (2)
Torben Liebrecht Torben Liebrecht
Colonel Ivan Carrera (2)
Neal McDonough Neal McDonough
Konrad Harlan (2)

The series takes place over 360 years in the future, with most episodes the first season set in the year 2384 in a futuristic metropolis known as Bay City. In the future, a person’s memories and consciousness (termed digital human freight, or DHF) are recorded onto a disk-shaped device called a cortical stack, which is implanted in the vertebrae at the back of the neck. These storage devices are of alien design and have been reverse-engineered and mass-produced but can only be made from the material on Harlan’s World. Physical human or synthetic bodies are called “sleeves” and stacks can be transferred to new bodies after death, but a person can still be killed if their stack is destroyed and there is no backup. Only the wealthiest, known as “Meths” in reference to Methuselah, have the means to change bodies through clones and remote storage of their consciousness in satellites, so they never have to die of old age before being resleeved.

Takeshi Kovacs, a political operative with mercenary skills, is the sole surviving soldier of the Envoys, a rebel group defeated in an uprising against the new world order. In the first season, set 250 years after the Envoys are destroyed, his stack is pulled out of prison by 300-year-old Meth Laurens Bancroft, one of the wealthiest men in the settled worlds. Bancroft offers him the chance to solve a murder—Bancroft’s own—to get a new shot at life. In the second season, set 30 years later, Kovacs, now in a new sleeve, continues to search for his lost love and Envoy leader Quellcrist Falconer.

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