Altered Carbon is fitting TV adaptation of Richard Morgan's gripping novel

The TV series is superbly shot and the acting is adequate

The Netflix series Altered Carbon features a hero, Takeshi Kovacs, who is both 40 years old and 290 years old. He’s played by Joel Kinnaman and Will Yun Lee. Kovacs is a former soldier serving a penal sentence. He is released from prison and hired as a detective with a rather odd brief: a billionaire wants to know who murdered him (the billionaire) in a manner that seems like a 24th-century riff on the classic locked-room murder mystery.

Confused? Fans of the cult cyberpunk series starring Takeshi Kovacs would not be. Richard Morgan created a richly complex universe in a string