![]() ![]() Silence on the futures of high-profile but also high-cost fantasy ventures like The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and The Witcher can’t be ignored in this context. Unlike a traditional broadcast model, Netflix produces (for now) entire seasons at once, so whereas a series on network TV could get canceled after a bad pilot or short run of episodes, Netflix series at least have one season in which to tell their tale. ![]() Despite its On Demand setup, if something doesn’t work right away, cut it. Whether or not that’s sustainable is another question, but it certainly backs up why Netflix has reverted to something of an old broadcast network model. Netflix also recently canceled YA series The Society and I Am Not Okay with This, citing “circumstances created by the pandemic.”Īs Variety reported last year, the streamer coasts along on a river of billions in debt to help fund its massive original series and movie output. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the decision came down to the typical viewership vs cost-basis analysis, but since we don’t know what Netfilx’s viewership for anything really is, it’s hard to know what that threshold looks like in a larger sense. “Hopefully our society will steer that way eventually."Īltered Carbon, led by Anthony Mackie, is streaming now.Netflix is canceling shows left and right this past week, and the latest casualty is Altered Carbon, which ran for two seasons (starring Joel Kinnaman and then Anthony Mackie) on the streaming giant. “.We're just looking to, at some point, find intimacy and try to see the better angels in someone else," said Conner. There is nothing that can separate us from each other."ĭina Shihabi and Chris Conner, who play the AIs Dig 301 and Poe, both felt that this season's quest of finding love was what made this season “beautiful." “.We look each other in the eye and realize that we're all just fellow human beings and fellow souls. “What I like about the show is here are so many deep philosophical angles that being looked at and ultimately we have to come to a point.where we get away from a world that displays so much dehumanization," said Torben Liebrecht, who plays Colonel Ivan Carrera. “But it's the strategy we use to get that either creates a peaceful society or a chaotic society.With a lot of our political leaders in life, you see them going for one noble idea, but at the expense of all these other human things." We want freedom, autonomy, peace, llaboration, all of these things," said Loren. “I think what's really interesting is, for example.underneath it all, we all want the same thing. “.I think we need some examples of women in leadership roles to make that less of a leap, and we have them in Altered Carbon, in season 1 and season 2." “I think we're choosing a leader, and we are shamefully uncomfortable with choosing a woman," added Goldsberry. Goldsberry directly compared the show to the 2020 election. “I think that is something that we look at today with our healthcare system, with the way that we treat people of color, the homeless, immigrants, all of these people who are considered an other or not a part of the dominant group." “So the thing for me that left off the screen is the idea that depending on your socioeconomic status, you can live forever or you're disposable," said Missick. Shadow And Act sat down with Renée Elise Goldsberry, who plays rebellion leader Quellcrist Falconer, and Simone Missick, who plays bounty hunter Trepp, to ask them what the season could teach viewers about our current society and what needs to change. In Altered Carbon's government, many women hold high political office, including Danica Harlan (played by Power's Lela Loren) who is the cutthroat governor of the planet Harlan's World, where most of this season's action takes place. In the show, only rich people can afford to be “meths" (as in Methuselah) and have the opportunity to live good - forever. Though it is set in the future, many of the sociopolitical themes are not that different from our present. One's consciousness can be digitized in a small, coin-like item called a “stack." Human bodies are interchangeable and death is no longer permanent. Netflix's sci-fi series Altered Carbon shows a future, dystopian society that's transformed by new technology.
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