1/25/2024 0 Comments Joel kinnaman altered carbonBut no one knows what’s going on in the second season.” “We have no idea what the second season would be, but my guess is that they would follow the two other books, and they are all on completely different planets, completely different worlds, and my guess is - and I don’t know - my guess is that it’s sort of going to be an anthology show where maybe a couple of the characters continue into the next season. The spectacle might grow stale but for now, the flash is blinding.“I don’t think so, no,” Kinnaman recently said when asked about the odds of returning for a second season of Altered Carbon. But in its early stages, it’s refreshing to see a show so unashamed about its pulpiness. There are echoes of so many sci-fi films that have come before and it’s questionable as to whether Altered Carbon will find a sleeve that feels more stridently unique. The dialogue ranges from the bad (“Some people just need killing”) to the almost charmingly nutty (“Have you ever heard of full-spectrum DHF remote storage backup?”) and the pace is fast enough to make the dumber elements feel more palatable. As his potential new employer, James Purefoy is as hammy as you’d expect if you’ve ever seen a James Purefoy performance before. Kinnaman is fine as the lead, his physical presence selling the more action-heavy elements, yet he’s a tad uninspiring when the script demands heavier lifting. It feels like something that might have been cast aside by Paul Verhoeven, who would have probably found the lack of social commentary a bit too tame for his tastes. While Altered Carbon might not be on par with, say, last year’s Blade Runner 2049, it’s an impressive step up from what we’re usually offered.Īside from the aesthetic pleasures, there’s something enjoyably unhinged about the plot, which luridly veers from gratuitous nudity to gratuitous violence to gratuitous silliness (there are no half-measures in the future). One of the problems with small screen sci-fi in recent years is that as an audience, we’re spoiled by what cinema can offer us and the understandably more modest visuals often pale in comparison. This is a Netflix show you shouldn’t binge on your phone: it demands a bigger screen so you can appreciate the neon-lit Blade Runner-esque noirish excess of the city that’s been created. While specific figures haven’t been released, Kinnaman has referred to it as “a world that’s got a bigger budget than the first three seasons of Game of Thrones” and from the outset it’s on flashy display. ![]() He’s given an unlikely option: he can spend the rest of his life behind bars or help solve the “murder” of Earth’s wealthiest man.Įven those who don’t connect with the first episode of Altered Carbon will find it hard to fault the sheer ambitious scale of it all. ![]() Takeshi Kovacs is a violent mercenary who wakes up 300 years after his sleeve is killed to find the world a very different place and himself in a very different body, that of the House of Cards and The Killing actor Joel Kinnaman. ![]() It’s a development that turns bodies into mere “sleeves” and so a traditional death just means movement from one bag of flesh to the next. It’s an adaptation of Richard Morgan’s cyberpunk novel Altered Carbon, set in a future where our minds are stored on “stacks”, discs that live in the back of our necks. This makes Netflix’s latest offering an intriguing gamble. The success of more grounded shows like Black Mirror and The Man in the High Castle offers further proof of what a wider audience actually wants to see. ![]() Unless it benefits from tried and tested franchise recognition (hello Star Wars), ambitious, universe-building science fiction is unlikely to break out beyond hardcore fans. Its failure, taken along with dismal box office results for Valerian and Blade Runner 2049 last year, also indicates a larger genre problem.
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