He is not white, it is true, but he is still firmly in the cis-male hunk mould. Sadly the sleeve proves short lived, and Kovacs is reincarnated again, this time in the body of Anthony Mackie, best known for playing Falcon in Marvel’s Avengers films. Without giving the game away, Kovacs was not who I thought it would be. She asks the barman, who we recognise as Poe (Chris Conner), Kovacs’s AI friend from the first series. A mysterious woman is looking for Kovacs. We are in a dive bar on a distant planet, where a jazz singer (Jihae) is belting tunes out to the usual ghouls and misfits. The second outing opens with a twisting set-piece that suggests the writers and directors have the right idea. Altered Carbon’s intriguing core idea ought to make it a playground for experimenting with identity and gender across time and space: what does it mean to live and love when your mind is separate from your body? The series is an adaptation of novels by Richard K Morgan and, like George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, the books had a devoted following before the producers came calling. You can only kill someone by destroying their chip, so it’s a fate reserved for your worst enemies. You can be reincarnated in any race, as a man, a woman, young or old, even an animal, although the last tends to lead to insanity. Using technology left behind by an earlier race known as “elders”, human personalities can be stored in glowing blue chips and reactivated infinitely in different bodies, called “sleeves”. The premise of Altered Carbon (Netflix) is that in the future mankind has “solved” death.
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