However, there’s no concrete news on what the plot of Season 2 might consist of. While details are sparse about Season 2, there’s a strong possibility that it might be based on the first novel’s sequel, Broken Angels, which was published in 2003.
After bringing Kovacs back to life, Bancroft entrusts the mercenary with solving his own murder, and offers him a new life in return. While the Envoys get obliterated 250 years before the events in ‘Altered Carbon’, Kovacs is brought back to life by a 300-year-old Meth called Laurens Bancroft, who is one of the most wealthiest people in human civilization. The show follows the adventures and misadventures of a mercenary, Takeshi Kovacs, who is the sole surviving soldier of a rebel outfit called the Envoys. It is in this setting that the story of ‘Altered Carbon’ unfolds.
Understandably, the show also has political undertones. While this ability theoretically ensures perpetual life for everyone, it is different in reality – only those who are at the top of the socio-economic order, called “Meths”, can afford to do so, thereby giving immortality a really classist angle. Cortical stacks, in turn, can be implanted in any organic or synthetic body to give it life, so long as it is planted in vertebrae at the back of the neck. In the future portrayed in the show, a person’s memories and consciousness can be stored on a disk-shaped device called a “cortical stack”. Set in a fictional futuristic San Francisco, called Bay City, ‘Altered Carbon’ focuses on an era in which a human’s memories and consciousness are portable, and can be transferred from one human or synthetic body to another. Most of the events in ‘Altered Carbon’ take place in the year 2384. Additionally, Torben Liebrecht will play the role of Colonel Ivan Carrera, and James Saito will play the role of a centuries-old Yakuza boss, Tanaseda Hideki. Reportedly, Simone Missick will debut as an expert bounty hunter called Trepp, while Dina Shihabi will play the role of a new AI character called Dig 301. Meanwhile, as far as debuts are concerned, Season 2 is expected to see several new characters introduced. Considering the fact that the show allows human consciousnesses to inhabit different bodies, changing cast members is a relatively simple task that only requires plot tweaks.Īs far as recurring roles are concerned, Renee Elise Goldsberry is expected to reprise her role as Kovacs’ love interest Quellcrist Falconer, and it has been confirmed that Chris Conner will return as the AI character, Poe. However, in Season 2, Anthony Mackie of ‘ The Avengers’ franchise will take up the role. The protagonist of the show, Takeshi Kovacs/Elias Ryker was played by Joel Kinnaman in Season 1. Here’s everything we know about ‘Altered Carbon’ Season 2. On July 27, 2018, Netflix, recognizing audience’s interest, renewed the show for Season 2, which is expected to air sometime in 2019. Vox critic, Todd VanDerWerff, had this to say about the show: “For a series that makes a lot of basic storytelling stumbles and often seems to feature characters who can only speak in exposition, Altered Carbon’s first season is surprisingly gripping, especially in its superior back half.” On the other hand, viewers completely loved the show to the point that it became a talking point on several social media forums. The critical response was mixed to say the least.
Subsequently, more than two years after its announcement, Season 1 of ‘Altered Carbon’ made its way to viewers’ screens on February 2, 2018.
While Kalogridis had initially optioned the novel for a full-length feature film, Netflix picked the idea up, and in January 2016, announced that ‘Altered Carbon’ would be made into a web television series instead. Set in a distant future where immortality is theoretically possible and practically feasible, ‘Altered Carbon’ is based on a 2002 novel of the same name by English sci-fi and fantasy novelist Richard K.
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