Altered Carbon

(Seasons 1 & 2)

This cyperpunk TV series is set in the year 2384 in a futuristic metropolis, where former soldier and convicted criminal Takeshi Kovacs is pulled out of prison to investigate the murder of Laurens Bancroft, who’s also the man who hired Kovacs for the job. The rich don’t die of old age like everyone else as they can afford to clone new bodies and store their consciousness remotely in satellites so that they can “live” infinitely.

Season 1 focuses on Kovacs’ relationship with Quellcrist Falconer, the leader of a rebel group that rose against the new world order 250 years ago, who was also his lover, as he continues solving a series of brutal murders that seem linked.

Based on a novel of the same name by English author Richard K Morgan, the series was unfortunately cancelled after Season 2. So you’ll have to pick up the book to know how the story unfolds further!