A young girl in a body she's deeply unprepared for, with parents who have no recourse but to try to buy a sleeve they can't possibly afford, or put their daughter back to sleep.Īltered Carbon could use more moments like that, that deeply interrogate the setting, that push us as the viewers into considering the opportunities and terrors a future like that might hold.
We linger for a moment on the horror and outrage of the situation. The victim's compensation program that allowed the parents to afford another body for their daughter wasn't discerning in what kind of body she received. Only one problem: the girl is now in the body of a middle-aged woman. Early in the first episode, in a drab, low-income facility for resleeving-the process of being resurrected in a new body-two parents are reunited with their murdered seven-year-old daughter. Slang now just calls them "sleeves." The future of Altered Carbon, Netflix's new science fiction series, is one where flesh is just another kind of economy.Ī world like that has a lot of storytelling opportunities. Bodies have become increasingly uncoupled from the consciousnesses that occupy them. The human mind is digitized in a transferrable chip called a "stack," capable of being moved from body to body as necessary-or, if you've got the cash for it, as desired. In the world of Altered Carbon, death is cheap.
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