10 Amazing TV Action Set-Pieces That Rivalled Cinema

10. Altered Carbon - Turret Vs Mercs

This high-budget Netflix Sci-Fi show got a decidedly divisive reception when released yet one area no one can argue it was lacking, was with its slickly constructed action scenes.

So if picking a specific one for this list, let’s go with the first and most memorable; a showdown between Joel Kinnaman’s ex-con (accompanied by an Android version of Edgar Allen Poe) against a lobby full of tough mercenaries.

Up until that point, the show had been coasting as Blade Runner-lite, then a surprise gun turret pops out and vaporises these thugs to a degree that Paul Verhoeven would do an enthused backflip - all whilst Kinnaman takes them out in satisfying slow-motion hand-to-hand combat.

It was an impressive display of cinematic verve that established this show's own inventively unique (and very violent) identity going forward.