Altered Carbon is an American cyberpunk web television series created by Laeta Kalogridis and based on the 2002 novel of the same title by English author Richard K. Morgan.[1] In a world where consciousness can be transferred to different bodies, Takeshi Kovacs, a former soldier turned investigator, must solve a murder. The first season consists of ten episodes and premiered on Netflix on February 2, 2018.[2] On July 27, 2018, the series was renewed for a second season of eight episodes,[3] which was released on February 27, 2020, with an anime film set before the first season released on March 19, 2020. The series received generally positive reviews.
The series takes place over 360 years in the future,[4][5] with most episodes the first season set in the year 2384, in a futuristic metropolis known as Bay City.[6] In the future, a person's memories and consciousness are written 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. While this
means anyone can live forever, 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.[7]
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.
Cast
Main
- Joel Kinnaman (season 1; flashbacks season 2),[9] Anthony Mackie (season 2) and Ray Chase (Resleeved)[10] as Takeshi "Tak" Kovacs, the last Envoy, of an elite rebel group defeated 250 years prior to the start of the series. Kinnaman also portrays Elias Ryker, a police officer and Ortega's former lover, whose "sleeve" or body Kovacs inhabits during season 1. Mackie serves as a new host body for Kovacs in season 2.
- James Purefoy as Laurens Bancroft (season 1), one of the wealthiest men alive, who lives in a skyscraper above the clouds and out of the reach of everyday people, ruthlessly powerful and wanting to exert control on those around him.[11]
- Martha Higareda as Kristin Ortega (season 1; guest season 2), a smart and tough lieutenant in the Bay City Police Department who comes from a religious Mexican American family of cops.[11]
- Chris Conner as Edgar Poe (seasons 1–2),[10] an artificial intelligence (AI) that takes the likeness of Edgar Allan Poe and runs the hotel that serves as Kovacs' base of operations in Bay City.[12][10]
- Dichen Lachman (season 1; guest season 2) and Elizabeth Maxwell (Resleeved) as Reileen Kawahara / Gina, Kovacs' sister, who shared his violent childhood, who joined the Envoys at the same time as he did, and apparently perished when the uprising was put down.[11]
- Ato Essandoh as Vernon Elliot (season 1; guest season 2), a former Protectorate marine whose wife was imprisoned and daughter murdered.[12]
- Kristin Lehman as Miriam Bancroft and Naomi Bancroft (season 1), Laurens' wife who has her own motivations, and their daughter who steals her mother's sleeve.[13] Lehman said she was "really intrigued and challenged" to play the character of Miriam, considering it different from her other work. Her background as a dancer helped her prepare for the role. Of the character's sexuality, "She has commodified her sexuality and I was interested in exploring that side of the character."[14]
- Trieu Tran as Mister Leung / Ghostwalker (season 1), a killer and "fixer" who kills and solves problems for a mysterious employer.[15]
- Renée Elise Goldsberry as Quellcrist "Quell" Falconer (née Nadia Makita) (seasons 1–2),[10] a master strategist and scientist, the creator of Stacks and leader of the Envoys. She was seemingly killed when the rebellion was put down, additionally appearing in Kovacs' flashbacks and hallucinations.[16]
- Lela Loren as Danica Harlan (season 2), the governor of Harlan's World and the daughter of its founder, Konrad Harlan.[17]
- Simone Missick as Trepp, a bounty hunter (season 2)[10]
- Dina Shihabi as Dig 301 (season 2), an AI archaeologue who befriends Poe[10]
- Torben Liebrecht as Jaeger / Ivan Carrera (season 2),[10] Kovacs' commanding officer
in the CTAC Praetorian and surrogate father, later the leader of an
elite fighting force called The Wedge operating on Harlan's World.[18] Daniel Bernhardt portrays the character's previous sleeve in a recurring capacity in seasons 1–2.
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