![]() Things quickly go awry, with Kovacs being framed as the Meth killer. Someone is inflicting Real Death on the local Meths (nigh-immortal one-percenters), and Kovacs is brought in to protect one of them. He’s forced to return to his former home, Harlan’s World, one of many planets controlled by The Protectorate. We continue to follow Takeshi Kovacs, lone wolf/ex-super soldier turned gun-for-hire and quintessential anti-hero. I’m not sure what exactly it is, but I'll give a brief rundown of the plot: The story takes place a few decades after the events of season one. ![]() Maybe it’s because I read Broken Angels, the sequel to the Altered Carbon book, recently and the show deviates heavily from that actually, I’ve read that it draws more material from the third book (which I’ve yet to read) than the second. Maybe it’s the missing detective angle that was so integral to the plot of the first season. ![]() Maybe the story of this season doesn't seem as fresh and tightly-woven. The world is still cool, the action still fun, the drama very moving at times, and Anthony Mackie plays Kovacs about as well as Joel Kinnaman did. I’m not sure what it is that’s missing from the first season that we aren’t seeing in the second. The second season brings back much of the same aesthetic quality as we saw before, but far less impact. Despite being a bit of a mixed bag and getting real generic in the latter half, it was hardcore, cerebral and provocative sci-fi noir. “How does it feel? To be afraid of death again? Or is this your first time?”Īltered Carbon really captured my imagination with that first season.
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