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‘Altered Carbon’ Canceled By Netflix After 2 Seasons
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I don't think I've finished S2 yet. Anthony Mackie is super charismatic, but they have him basically impersonating Joel Kinnaman doing his Terminator imitation. It also feels like the writing went downhill with evil clones and stuff.
The show already felt uninspired by the second season. Which is a shame, the story author's alignment with TERFs was really sad to see, but the show tried to separate itself I felt with the first episode of the second season.
The problem I had with Mackie was he didn't act like Kinnaman's Kovacs at all. It was made worse by the fact that the lounge singer at the beginning had his mannerisms down perfectly.
i really enjoyed season 1 and didnt even know season 2 existed...i'm part of the problem i guess :-(
Oh man that's a damn shame. Hopefully it can get closure somehow
Second season kinda tossed itself off a cliff tho. First season had more interesting dynamics between main characters and everything oozed high quality CG/set pieces. Guess they burned quite some money on it. Now I wouldn't mind someone trying to make a tv series outta Morgan's A Land fit for Heroes tho.
I didn't think it was great, but Netflix really needs to start giving some of it's shows closure or being more selective.
Honestly why would you make any expensive TV show that isn't an outright cultural phenomenon when you can have a reality show about people not having sex that's much cheaper and incredibly popular. Also I feel like they expanded the universe way too soon with that god awful looking anime and that just burnt out a lot of the momentum the show had (further hurt by the lackluster season 2).
I still never get the narrative that Netflix gives nothing a chance and cancels shows after a couple of seasons. It's gotta be recency bias as this is nothing new for TV content producers. Hell, I remember several shows from the 90's that didn't even get a full first season before they were dropped, forget about getting a finale and closure. If you were an animated show on Fox for the longest time it was rare to get more than a single season.
Oh man, that brings me back to that Family Guy joke when it came back to Fox
The seasons of Altered Carbon are fairly self contained, there really aren't any massive mysterious left at the end of season 2 and unlike say Game of Thrones, the Altered Carbon series is complete and has been done for a while at 3 books. So you can just read it if you want to know everything.
Netflix has actually been super generous about closing off shows that need an ending, probably because they don't want shows to live on for 20 years hanging with a cliffhanger. For example I don't think Sense8 was very popular but they even granted it an extra movie to finish off the stories. Most of their recent shows they are pretty good about letting showrunners know when the final season is occuring.
For any fans of the show definitely watch the 1 hour anime they put out, I honestly thought it was better than season 2.
I was hyped for Season 1 but no matter how many times I restarted the show I could never make it through the whole thing. The story just never hooked me to care enough to keep watching. Sucks that it got canceled for those who enjoyed it.
There's no massive mystery left but they left the status of all the characters hanging, there's no closure.
They definitely didn't let the showrunners know that S2 was going to be the last one.
I would love it Netflix were a bunch of miniseries, rather than their more traditional television model.
They should focus on telling complete stories that they can bank away and sell forever, rather than just a bunch of shows that run their course and fizzle our.
They should focus on telling complete stories that they can bank away and sell forever, rather than just a bunch of shows that run their course and fizzle our.
Thats a negative sir. There is still some unanswered questions.
It wraps up the plot points of season 2 well, but it clearly ends on a note of - this isn't the end, there's more to come to look forward to.
Is there any chance another network could get this and do more?
Just watching Season 2 and am 3 episodes in and am surprised its like watching a series written and edited by an idiot child in comparison. Its embarrassingly bad how stupid it is. I like Scifi but not dumb lazy scifi its sad they arent renewing it but its probably best after that mess that it doesn't return. If they didn't care to make much of an effort in the second season then the third would be even worse.