Review: Flashy future of 'Altered' confounds
by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
Feb 02, 2018
3 minutes
"Altered Carbon," new on Netflix, adapts Richard K. Morgan's 2002 novel into a 10-episode television series starring Joel Kinnaman as space-warrior turned detective Takeshi Kovacs. Its strategy, not unique among science fiction stories, is to adapt the tone and tropes of hard-boiled detective fiction to futuristic sci-fi, which is why its rainy, neon-noir vision of San Francisco some centuries hence (now called Bay City) may remind you strongly of "Blade Runner."
In the crazy future Morgan envisions, brought to colorful life by series creator Laeta Kalogridis
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