Altered Carbon: Netflix reveals season 2 release date for sci-fi thriller

Netflix has announced the season 2 release date for sci-fi thriller Altered Carbon, starring Anthony Mackie and Will Yun Lee.

Netflix has set February 27 for the release of Altered Carbon season two. The series, based on the novels by Richard K. Morgan and executive produced by showrunner Alison Schapker, is set in a future where people’s consciousness can be transferred from one body to another, allowing people to live for centuries. As with any technological development, there is a huge rift between the rich and the poor when it comes to the quality and availability of this technology. The premise also allows for several actors to appear as the same character in different bodies.

While season one starred Joel Kinnaman as Takeshi Kovacs, the last survivor of an elite group of rebel warriors turned reluctant private eye, season two will star Anthony Mackie along with Will Lee Yun returning as the original Kovacs. At the end of season one, Kovacs learned that his lost love Quellcrist Falconer (Renée Elise Goldsberry) is still out there somewhere. While we don’t know what kind of trouble he’ll get into, his primary focus will be reuniting with her.

Season one premiered to favorable reviews and is honestly a pleasure to watch for film nerds who love that Blade Runneresque mesh of sci-fi and film noir. Altered Carbon is dark and atmospheric, equal parts gritty and elegant, dryly humorous and melodramatic, with the perfect mix of action and social commentary. I just ate it up and I can’t wait to see more.

Along with Mackie, Goldsberry, Yun, and Chris Conner (returning as Poe), Altered Carbon also stars Simone Missick (Luke Cage), Lela Loren (Power), Dina Shihabi (Daredevil), Torben Liebrecht (Operation Finale), and James Saito (Always Be My Maybe). Season two will consist of eight episodes and premieres on Netflix on Thursday, February 27.

Source: Deadline