Altered Carbon (2018)

Watchseries; They should not have changed the main character. Season 2 is boring and although I like Falcon, he sucks in this role. It's like he has no idea how to play his sleeve. I literally finished Season 1 for the third time a week ago and they seem nothing alike. The writing seems dumbed down and obvious. There is no mystery keeping the tale alive. The rated R material that kept a future world facinating seems completely taken out and replaced with some punk rock/hippie/rave enthusiast phase. The only good part about Season 2 is Edgar Allen Poe.

They should not have changed the main character. Season 2 is boring and although I like Falcon, he sucks in this role. It's like he has no idea how to play his sleeve. I literally finished Season 1 for the third time a week ago and they seem nothing alike. The writing seems dumbed down and obvious. There is no mystery keeping the tale alive. The rated R material that kept a future world facinating seems completely taken out and replaced with some punk rock/hippie/rave enthusiast phase. The only good part about Season 2 is Edgar Allen Poe.

Altered Carbon watchseries. Season 2.. Is a different show, it might as well be called something different.

Everything I liked about the first season is gone in the 2nd. Changing the main Actor was a mistake.

Season 1 is very good 8/10. With some problems but great ideas and acting. I just started to watch season 2 and already think about turning it off. Was it supposed to he a joke? Falcon looking for Falconer. Bad joke.

Ok. I did watch the whole second season. You can just make it a drinking game like Armageddon and drink with every stupid idea. Every 5 minutes of second season will kill you...

First season is very good probably 10/10 after 15 mins you cant stop watching until the end , but the second season is 1/10 after 15 mins you want to stop and forget about it...

Who is this? This is NOT Takeshi Kovacs! Anthony Mackie has a revelation here - he does not have a very good range. Since Joel Kinnaman is the previous Takeshi, he should have studied and followed his style more. His Takeshi is TIRED and utilitarian, with a disembodied stare that almost watches it's own body move and breath. Mackie's Takeshi shows far too much emotion, far too much eyebrow acting. Kinnaman's Takeshi has the slack, the grit and swagger of an exhausted warrior with relaxed habits that he seems to have done things countless times before. Mackie, even after his Marvel films, has no grace, his posture is always stiff, arms are always to his sides and his neck is too stiff, as if he's thinking so hard about the script. Kinnaman knows how to sway them around, to make a dynamic, almost drunken stance, and he can control his neck and head to react to certain scenarios and emotions.

I'm not even bothered by the difference between Kinnaman and Lee, because Lee's was a younger pre-Envoy version, and in the previous season he was mostly a flashback.

And this world... is so bland and one-dimensional, it's as if it's a 2-second brain fart. No culture, no depth, no nothing. You wouldn't love the planet, you wouldn't hate it, and you definitely wouldn't care about it, after all - it's a flat drawing. It's like the groundbreaking idea is... 'oh let's put them on a different planet, and the place is a future city with rich and poor people' That's it?!

Season 2 has no flavor, no dark humor, no depth and no life. It's a plot you've seen countless times, with a script so bland and boring a highschooler could have written it. I couldn't even call Season 2 cyberpunk, it's just... 'a high tech soap'. Remember the scene when Takeshi murders all those scientists and random people and grabs his girly UNICORN backpack close - and hilariously hangs on to this random guy's severed head. There's none of that here, it's all just bangbang-talk-iloveyouforever-talk-bangbang. Mackie, and all the directors and scriptwriters... you've all just ruined a perfectly good show.