![]() ![]() And she smells something fishy when a former Envoy like Kovacs is resleeved and hired by a billionaire with mysterious motives. We discover that Kristin is not just a driver but a police detective. The elite choose to literally live in the clouds to get away from the rabble underneath. A world of mansions, gardens, parks and endless artisan frogurt bars. They fly above the clouds to reveal a world beyond the dank crime and petty theft on the ground. Kovacs is sent via hovercar to Bancroft by a suspiciously chatty driver, Kristin Ortega, we get a great look at both the expanse of the world and the budget of Netflix. He is now the property of Bancroft Industries and he’s required for a meeting, pronto. Brought into a small office, he is told that he has been leased by Bancroft Industries, headed by billionaire owner Laurens Bancroft. Which is good as Joel Kinnaman looks like he has been lifting weights and doing cocaine since he left the set of House of Cards. So it’s clear that Kovacs was a bad-ass in his former life. The cortical stack is located on the base of the brain, so only blunt trauma or an explosion of the head can result in real death. Our bodies, or sleeves, are replaceable but should we break our cortical stack, it’s goodnight. We learn that in this world, our consciousness is downloaded into a cortical stack, a small device planted into us as an infant. And just a heads up ‘disorientation, visual and auditory hallucinations and even low-grade amnesia are normal’. Kovacs is told that he’s completed his prison term and as a part of his release, he’s been resleeved in another body. ![]() Where is he, who is he, what is he?Īfter being told he has a new ‘sleeve’ and he’s currently holed up in Alcatraz Prison, Bay City, Planet Earth, he takes a shower and contemplates his predicament. He wakes and begins to tear the place up in a frenzy of confusion. We first meet him in a lab, unconscious and wrapped unceremoniously in a giant sandwich bag, technicians hovering over him. 250 years ago he was Takeshi Kovacs, a highly-skilled assassin known as an Envoy, before he was arrested in a raid by police. Mortality, murder, mayhem, malevolence.īased on the Richard Morgan’s 2002 novel, the action begins with the line ‘the first thing you’ll learn is that nothing is what it seems.’ Joel Kinnaman finds that out the hard way. A dark swathe of snakes and serpents sashay in front of a futuristic skyline, dancing with dimly lit pods containing sleeping human beings. From the opening credits of Altered Carbon, we have a clear view of the themes of Netflix’s much-anticipated series. ![]()
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