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Altered Carbon

★ 7.9 203K votes 2018–2020 2 seasons · 18 episodes Canceled Netflix
Near-future techTechnology one step ahead of today, and what it costs us.This show: 9/10DystopiaOppressive imagined societies and the people caught in them.This show: 8/10RevengeVengeance as the driving motive.This show: 8/10Class divideWealth, poverty and the gulf between them.This show: 8/10Graphic violenceExplicit, unflinching violence.This show: 8/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 8/10Sexually explicitFrank sexual content.This show: 7/10Big-budget spectacleBlockbuster-scale production values.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Chris ConnerRenée Elise GoldsberryDichen LachmanWill Yun LeeMartha HigaredaAto Essandoh
Written by
Laeta Kalogridis
Starring
Chris ConnerRenée Elise GoldsberryDichen LachmanWill Yun LeeMartha HigaredaAto Essandoh
Written by
Laeta Kalogridis
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"Cyberpunk noir asking what a soul is worth"

In a far-future world where human consciousness can be digitized and moved between bodies, a rebel soldier is revived a lifetime after his death to solve a murder for a nearly immortal billionaire. The setup is dense noir-cyberpunk: sleek, violent, and stuffed with world-building about class, identity, and mortality once bodies become disposable. It moves fast, leans hard on style, action set-pieces, and moody visuals, and asks big philosophical questions without always slowing down to answer them. It rewards patience with lore but never quite loses its neo-noir detective backbone.

Watch it for

the immersive cyberpunk world-building and stylish, brutal action sequences.

Maybe skip if

you find dense sci-fi exposition or grim, violent tone exhausting.

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All Seasons

Season 12018
8.152K108h 53m
In a future where humans can transfer their minds from body to body, a rebel is brought back to life to solve a twisted, high-stakes murder case.
Season 22020
6.624K86h 36m
When a job brings Takeshi Kovacs back to Harlan's World in a new sleeve, he finds the planet at war — and his long-lost love lurking in the shadows.

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Chris Conner Poe
Renée Elise Goldsberry Quellcrist Falconer
Dichen Lachman Reileen Kawahara
Will Yun Lee Kovacs Prime, Stronghold Kovacs
Martha Higareda Kristin Ortega
Ato Essandoh Vernon Elliot
Joel Kinnaman Takeshi Kovacs
James Purefoy Laurens Bancroft
Kristin Lehman Miriam Bancroft
Trieu Tran Mr. Leung

Crew

Laeta Kalogridis

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