Next up of our dinner shows was Altered Carbon. The trailer looked cool and so we decided to try it out.
The first season was really good and I really enjoyed the world-building and how the story progressed. The writers kept the storylines so frickin tight that I hadn't figured out who was behind it all until Kovacs told everyone what he knew, but when he did everything made total sense I all the pieces fit together. It was beautiful.
Unfortunately it felt like they dropped the ball in the second season. Mostly because the few subtle hints towards what Elders actually were that they had dropped throughout season one and two had been too subtle and the pieces didn't fit together as well as they should have. Poe carried this whole season. He was the best part of it. Dig helped, but man, I loved Poe. I loved him from the get-go in the first season and figured out every reference to Edgar Allan Poe even before they made it obvious. He's one of my favourite classical authors, so what do you expect?
Joel Kinnaman was great as Kovacs and I also really enjoyed seeing Will Yun Lee as original Kovacs. Anthony Mackie, somehow, didn't bring the same feel to the character. Mackie was less intense, I think, than Kinnaman and Lee, and I guess that's a danger for every show like this where you can switch actors for the main character.
First season was really good, second season was meh.