#Altered carbon season 2 cast tv#

The actors are so bad that it feels like I am watching a low budget day time TV soap opera. Environments look boring, dark and brown. That film noir cyberpunk detective feeling, setting and acting is all just gone. The story has so many McGuffins and Deus Ex Machinas that it felt like pure fan fiction aimed at teenagers. Mackie is just completely a wooden plank compared to the previous Kinnaman. That film This season was a super big letdown. So not a great look, but still watchable. In contrast season 2 comes off like a WB show, as other reviewers have noted. Can confirm there is a definitive drop in the quality of the cinematography, and a slight one for the writing. So while it perhaps does not quite reach the heights of season 1, it also doesn't descend to the same depths. But I do remember the last episode being so dumb I stopped watching it - which didn't happen here. I do need to watch season 1 again for comparison to see if I agree with the consensus here about a drop in quality. And at moments it gets close to poignant. The writing, while rarely brilliant, was never stupid - something one cannot say about something like 99% of sci-fi shows.

I found him watchable and was rooting for him - so he did his job. He's not terribly charismatic and the humor was definitely not there like the first season, but he was solid and toed the line between being convincingly tough and also capable of displaying emotion that conveys to the viewer. I definitely missed the actor from season 1, and was skeptical about Mackie - but he won me over. Altered Carbon is the rare show that accomplishes this - yes, including in this second season. He's not I'm a sucker for sci-fi, particularly sci-fi that explores issues in non-idiotic ways. I'm a sucker for sci-fi, particularly sci-fi that explores issues in non-idiotic ways. The only sin this tv show has committed so far is that it's too good for this world, and I can't shake the feeling that shortsighted corporate bean counters are going to pull the plug on it eventually. Each of the actors old and new does a fantastic job, and the writing is excellent.

#Altered carbon season 2 cast series#

We can be transferred from sleeve to sleeve or beamed across the stars, but can we still retain what makes us who we are? Series 2 delves even deeper into the world, exploring things we only got the tiniest taste of in season 1.

As always the series reflects on what it even means to be human in a world where consciousness has been digitised. Everything goes wrong for Kovacs right from the start and the result is a fast paced ride through a compelling story of ghosts, love, fear, ambition, retribution, crimes, history, and loss. Kovacs finds himself fighting to unravel the threads of a dangerous plot before those threads strangle him. This season is more akin to a James Bond story. Now we have a Kovacs who has a purpose of his own now and is driven, almost obsessed, with the idea that he might have a chance of finding her. In the intervening time much has changed. Last season was a 'noir detective story'-inspired mystery, and a Kovacs fresh off a long spell on ice, and he was sad to be brought back into a world he had fought so hard to stop. A philosopher once said, no man can step into the same river twice, for the second time it's not the same river and he's not the same man. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.Īmazing show.