Altered_carbon_1x01 Review

: Laurens Bancroft claims he was murdered, despite the police ruling it a suicide. Because his "stack" (the disk storing his memories) was destroyed just before his last backup, he has no memory of the event and hires Kovacs to find the killer.

: We meet Lieutenant Kristin Ortega, a detective with a mysterious connection to Kovacs' new body, and Edgar Poe, the AI proprietor of the Raven Hotel who becomes Kovacs' unlikely ally. Watch & Discuss Altered_carbon_1x01

The series premiere of , titled "Out of the Past," introduces a gritty cyberpunk future where death has become a mere technicality. Set 250 years after the death of Envoy Takeshi Kovacs, he is "resleeved"—brought back to life in a new body—at the behest of Laurens Bancroft, one of the world's wealthiest men. Bancroft task Kovacs with a single mission: solve the murder of Bancroft's previous body. Episode Highlights : Laurens Bancroft claims he was murdered, despite

: Takeshi Kovacs (played by Joel Kinnaman ) wakes up in a Bay City prison, nearly three centuries after his "real" death. Watch & Discuss The series premiere of ,

What did you think of the world-building in this first episode? Does the concept of "resleeving" fascinate you or freak you out? Let's discuss below!