‘Altered Carbon’ Featurette Explores The History Of Immortality
Altered Carbon, Netflix’s big, weird new science fiction series, arrives this weekend, and in anticipation of this, the streaming service has released an in-depthAltered Carbonfeaturette that looks at the way the series treats life and death.Altered Carbonis, for the most part, a strange show. There’s a lot of rich, complex mythology in the series, and it doesn’t spoon-feed its audience. Instead, it throws you head-on into the weird stuff and makes you figure it out on your own. If you want an idea of just how complex the show is, check out our handy guide to the seriesright here. Seemingly in anticipation of how complicated some of the show’s ideas may be, Netflix has wisely put together this cleverAltered Carbonfeaturette that explores the way the show deals with immortality. Netflix has clearly spared no expense here, going so far as to hire master science explainerNeil deGrasse Tysonto narrate. Check it out.
Altered Carbon featurette
Long story short: in the world ofAltered Carbon, death isn’t the end. Thanks to alien technology, human beings have been able to download their consciousness (or soul, if you want to get theological with this) into a little memory drive known as a stack. When the body, or sleeve, you currently inhabit dies due to illness, accident, or murder, you can simply have your stack uploaded into a brand new sleeve, and be born again in a new body.
Of course, in the world of the show, the super-wealthy have exploited this to their great advantage, causing an even greater rift between the haves and the have-nots.Altered Carbonis a visually stunning series, and it’s truly committed to its wild and crazy ideas. That said, the show itself left me kind of cold. As I said in myreview: “Altered Carbonis a big, bold, visually stunning sci-fi extravaganza. Unfortunately, the story the show is telling fails to live up to the jaw-dropping visuals on display, ultimately robbing the series of its power.”
