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Source: 30dB.com – %23AlteredCarbon
The show — based on the 2002 novel by Richard K. Morgan — was given a 10-episode first season and a huge budget (Netflix has kept the exact figure under wraps though it’s rumored to be well over $100 million). It involves a distant future where the human mind and consciousness are stored and transferred among physical bodies, which are essentially just empty, easily replaceable vessels. The main character is played by Joel Kinnaman, who has some experience in the sci-fi genre after his role as RoboCop in the 2014 film of the same name. He also played Republican presidential candidate Will Conway in House of Cards. Critics aren’t terribly impressed with Altered Carbon, and it has a modest 65 percent fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes. As CNN writes, “Netflix has taken more than a few flyers on big, splashy, time-wasting projects, and Altered Carbon — a sci-fi experiment gone awry — joins that pantheon of the quickly forgettable.” Non-critics totally disagree, however: The series has a 91 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, and Social gives #AlteredCarbon 82 percent positives. –Alex Shultz
Republished from 30dB