Altered Carbon Cancelled By Netflix After Two Seasons

Altered Carbon has been cancelled after just two season, it has been reported.

According to Deadline, the Netflix series, which stars Anthony Mackie, will not be returning to our screen.

It's understood that the decision was not Covid-related; rather it was down to the streaming site's 'standard viewership over cost renewal' review process.

The sci-fi blockbuster is based on the 2002 novel of the same title by Richard K. Morgan.

The first season was set 300 years in the future where people who have enough money can 'download' their consciousness into waiting bodies - called a 'sleeve' - and essentially live forever.

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It centres on former soldier Takashi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman) who tries to solve the murder of a rich bloke.

In the second series, set 30 years after the conclusion of the first, Mackie took over the reins in the lead role, desperately searching for his long lost love Quellcrist Falconer (Renée Elise Goldsberry).

When the show was released back in 2018 it was met with rave reviews from critics and fans, who absolutely loved it.

Variety's Maureen Ryan wrote: "Like Electric Dreams, Altered Carbon is not perfect, but both are solid additions to the canon of science fiction on television. To see major TV platforms spending big money on TV series with shuttlecraft, flying police cruisers, multiple worlds and gorgeously inventive technology is heartening."

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While The Hollywood Reporter's Tim Goodman wrote of the show: "Conceptually, Altered Carbon is a blockbuster - it's a sprawling spectacle that could go on for multiple seasons.

"The cinematography and world-building is impressive frame to frame, the casting strong and all the riveting popcorn elements firmly in place."

Speaking at the time, original star Kinnaman said he was drawn to the role because of its Black Mirror style plot, which forces the audience to see how today's problems could be extrapolated and exaggerated in the future.

He told NME: "I think we already now are seeing rich people almost becoming a different species, when you see what the possibilities of health care are for the rich compared to people that live in poverty that are uninsured."

LADbible has contacted Netflix for comment.

Topics: TV and Film, Netflix

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