![]() There is a thriving black market in illegal transfers and the kidnapping of young healthy people for their bodies has become a crime wave. Even though transfers are illegal, Sophie’s uncle, Dr Vautier, is a major researcher in the field, so he was able to secretly help her and Florian. Sylvain was shot in the shoulder, but died during surgery from a reaction to the anesthetic. His wife, Sophie, never gave up on Florian, and arranged to have his mind transferred into the body of Sylvain Bernard, a brutal member of the anti-transfer police force, known as the BATI. While he was asleep, body swapping technology was developed, legalized, and then made illegal again two years later. He wakes up after having been in a coma for 5 years, and finds himself in another man’s body. Florian Bassot, a woodworker and family man, drowns while boating with his wife and children. Transfers takes place in the near future in a generic French city. Transfers was created and written by Patrick Benedek and Claude Scasso. The series aired in France in November, 2017, after having won Best French Series and Best Actor (for star Arieh Worthalter) at the 2017 Séries Mania Festival, an international festival. Transfers (or Transferts) is a 6 episode science fiction-thriller series, produced in France, which is now streaming on Netflix. Recaps of individual episodes can be found HERE and on the Home Page as they are published.* This is pretty standard fare with Netflix, but with how terrible the acting was it felt like they put identity over quality.*This is a review of Season 1. All of the leads are non-white, with one being a lesbian, while the badguys are mostly men and white with a few exceptions. It was also kind of odd how they really upped the wokeness quotient. She just wants to murder, murder, murder, and cause uprisings. They have her set up as this messianic figure but really she is just an angry child. ![]() She isn't an inspirational character and I just don't care about her character at all. The changes to Falconer that they made from the book just don't work. Anthony Mackie is wooden as the lead and the supporting cast isn't any better. The writing is terrible and the acting is atrocious. I started Season 2 since with Covid running rampant I have a lot of down time. I thought it was a worthwhile adaptation and a decent show to binge. I had the same thoughts for Season 1 of the show. I read the Altered Carbon novel and thought it was decent but not amazing. So not a great look, but still watchable. In contrast season 2 comes off like a WB show, as other reviewers have noted. Can confirm there is a definitive drop in the quality of the cinematography, and a slight one for the writing. So while it perhaps does not quite reach the heights of season 1, it also doesn't descend to the same depths.Įdit: just watched season 1 again. But I do remember the last episode being so dumb I stopped watching it - which didn't happen here. I do need to watch season 1 again for comparison to see if I agree with the consensus here about a drop in quality. And at moments it gets close to poignant. The writing, while rarely brilliant, was never stupid - something one cannot say about something like 99% of sci-fi shows. I found him watchable and was rooting for him - so he did his job. He's not terribly charismatic and the humor was definitely not there like the first season, but he was solid and toed the line between being convincingly tough and also capable of displaying emotion that conveys to the viewer. I definitely missed the actor from season 1, and was skeptical about Mackie - but he won me over. Altered Carbon is the rare show that accomplishes this - yes, including in this second season. I'm a **** for sci-fi, particularly sci-fi that explores issues in non-idiotic ways. Some character fates seamed too inconsequential in the end but over it felt like a less gritty but more polished season of altered carbon. The story was less of a space Noir and while the overall pacing is different it is still good - just in a different way. And while the sets were sized down their overall quality have been improved, which made them more realistic, which helped with the atmosphere in return. The image is sharp and the camera work, while at first a little jumpy improved a lot, which made the whole series look more cinematic. Instead the overall visual quality improved. No need for a few scenes of big CGI Cities which swallow the budget and already look outdated like in the first season. ![]() Overall I felt like the season improved on what was already good and fixed what might fell a little flat like the visuals. Speaking of empathy: Poe was my highlight of the season. He made Kovacs more empathetic, which was a necessary improvement in my opinion, which I appreciate. I do like Anthony Mackie as an actor and I think he did a good Kovacs.
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