Altered Carbon Season 2 Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs

4. The Disappointingly Sanitised Tone

Altered Carbon Trepp
Netflix

One of the big plusses of the first season was its aggressively adult tone: there are desperately few "mature" sci-fi shows operating at this budget, and so season one's high abundance of both gore and nudity was hugely refreshing.

The nudity in particular was unsurprisingly controversial with critics, but rather than simply scale back the male gaze for this season - or better yet, turn the gaze around on the show's many male subjects - it instead strips back a lot of the explicit content, as is sure to disappoint many.

There are still violent action scenes and frequent spurts of blood, for sure, but nudity in particular has been noticeably curtailed, and the generally nastier, rougher tone of season one feels massively softened on the whole.

It's as though Netflix wants to try and make the show more appealing to a broader audience, even if anyone who tries to watch season two standalone will surely find themselves thoroughly confused.

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