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Morgan might be attempting to make a point about the way this civilization views women, but it doesn't stop him from falling into sexist cliches.

In other conversations with Laurens, the lives of others are also relegated to bodily excretions and other physical attributes. Early on, when Tak meets Laurens’ wife Miriam Bancroft, he mentions her breasts three times in the space of three pages. Any points the book might want to make about the state of the body in a postmodern age are lessened by Morgan's tendency towards objectification. People of color are reduced to minor characters or unnamed victims. He writes women as if he’s internally ranking each one by sexual attractiveness. What was probably crafted with a pulp intent often comes off as cheesy and exploitive due to how little Morgan seems to care about bodies that aren’t our main character’s. So the question becomes whether the Netflix production should’ve done away with some of the story’s more problematic elements, since the series was obviously given license to take liberties, or whether Morgan’s choices are so integral to the plot as to be untouchable.Ī lot of the first Altered Carbon novel is uncomfortable to read now. They’re addressed to varying degrees, some successfully and some not, but all are included in the text as part of the world Morgan is building, which renders accusations of whitewashing invalid. However, these are all key points in the source material, written by Richard K. To literally whitewash a story and include various scenes of sexual assault, gratuitous nudity, and violence towards women and people of color seems immediately tone deaf, given our current cultural conversation. Without context, these are all questionable choices. They make their money through the torture industry, and there's a brothel in the clouds that allows them to live out their sickest fantasies, most of which include killing sex workers, because their sleeves are believed to be as replaceable as condoms.

He enters a world full of debauchery, where the rich - called “Meths” - can live forever and spend the centuries engaging in violent, sadistic and often fatal sex acts.