After watching ghost in the shell, akira, teknolyze, n most sci fi animes in the 90's n late 2000's , altered carbon seems like an au gratin of all those old series. Firstly, sci fi is meant to be fast while this unnecessarily pulls it up to 1 hour long. Secondly, most American tv series show sex which is mindless n meaningless and often not connected to the story. It's good if you want to waste ur time, but this isn't a must watch Netflix series. For me, devilman stood up to be the Netflix series of the year.