Netflix Underrated Sci-Fi Series ( Photo Credit – YouTube )

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Every now and then, a show slips past the noise of endless new releases and quietly claims a loyal corner of the internet. Fans of Altered Carbon have been calling it exactly that, a sci-fi series that deserves to be remembered as one of Netflix’s greatest. It aired between 2018 and 2020, ran for two seasons, and, despite everything it offered, somehow never found the mass audience it seemed built for.

What Is Netflix’s Altered Carbon About?

The show’s concept alone sets it apart. Set more than 300 years in the future, Altered Carbon imagines a world where human consciousness can be digitized, stored, and transferred between bodies. Death, for the rich at least, has become optional. Those who can afford new bodies and mind backups live forever, while everyone else is left struggling in a society where mortality itself has become a class divide.

At the center of it all is Takeshi Kovacs, played by Joel Kinnaman in season one. Once a rebel soldier fighting against the very system that made immortality possible, Kovacs wakes up centuries later in a new body, hired by one of the world’s wealthiest men, Laurens Bancroft, to solve his own murder.