Altered Carbon Review: 7 Ups & 3 Downs

By Jack Pooley / February 3, 2018

2. There's Way Too Much Exposition

It becomes apparent very quickly that Altered Carbon isn't the most delicately written of shows, with practically every single episode featuring at least one scene where a character lazily reels off a lengthy monologue force-feeding the audience the plot or what a character's motivations are.

Characters speak in awkward, mannered tones that no actual person would in order to reel off information for the viewer's benefit, and it's frequently distracting.

It doesn't help that many of these dialogues unfold via uninspired shot-reverse-shot conversations, and though the show occasionally slowing down to recount the oft-confusing narrative isn't a totally bad idea, it's done with an almost comical level of blatancy here.