For example, the data contained in the cortical stack, which all citizens have installed in the base of their skulls at age 1, contains a person’s DHF, or digital human freight - the sum of their entire consciousness. Those parenthetical terms may seem daunting, but the techno-jargon takes surprisingly little time to get used to, and the future world the show takes place in is immediately immersive. Since Bancroft died before a 48-hour backup could be made of his consciousness, his new sleeve has no memory of the event. Starring Joel Kinnaman ( The Killing) as Takeshi Kovacs, whose memory (or “cortical stack”) has been placed in a new body (or “sleeve”) after serving 250 years of an eternal prison sentence, Altered Carbon follows the investigation for which Kovacs has been revived (or “spun up”): to find the murderer of Laurens Bancroft, played by James Purefoy ( Hap and Leonard). Fortunately, Altered Carbon succeeds on its own many merits, not just because of the dearth of competition. The television landscape hasn’t yet spawned any classics of this particular sci-fi sub-genre the way cinema has with the likes of Blade Runner or even the more controversial Ghost in the Shell (although some are in the works), so the field is wide open for this series in which minds are downloaded into new bodies to prolong life. Morgan’s definitive novel on Netflix, is not up for question. The hunger with which fans of cyberpunk will devour Altered Carbon, the noir adaptation of Richard K.
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