Watch the official trailer for Altered Carbon season 2!

Netflix dropped the first season of Altered Carbon, a splashy sci-fi epic based on the book by Richard K. Morgan, back in 2018. Picture it: the distant future. Income equality has grown to the point where the rich live in impossible palaces above the clouds and the poor scrabble for scrabs in the cyberpunk cities on the ground. Technology has advanced so much that death is basically a non-issue, since your consciousness can always be inserted into another body, or “sleeve.” That’s how former revolutionary Takeshi Kovacs can be alive so many years after a normal human would have died. It’s a brave, frightening new world.

In the first season, Kovacs was played by Joel Kinnaman. But with that sleeve discarded at the end of season 1, he’s now played but Anthony Mackie, aka Falcon from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Check out the official trailer below!

“Altered Carbon Season 2 finds Takeshi Kovacs, the lone surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors, continuing his centuries-old quest to find his lost love Quellcrist Falconer,” reads Netflix’s official synopsis. “After decades of planet-hopping and searching the galaxy, Kovacs finds himself recruited back to his home planet of Harlan’s World with the promise of finding Quell. Haunted by his past and responsible for investigating a series of brutal murders, Kovacs is stunned to discover his new mission to solve the crime and his pursuit to find Quell are one and the same. With the help of his loyal A.I. Poe, Kovacs must now partner with new allies to outwit his enemies and find the truth: Who is Quellcrist Falconer?”

Renee Elise Goldsberry returns as Quellcrist. Also coming back is Chris Conner as Kovacs’ best friend Poe, who’s a hologram of Edgar Allen Poe who runs a hotel. It’s the future; roll with it. Newcomers include Simone Missick (Luke Cage), Dina Shihabi (Jack Ryan) and James Saito (The Terror).

We can also see actor Will Yun Lee in there, who plays…okay, who plays Takeshi’s original body, but clearly it’s now occupied by someone else, so Takeshi — who’s played by Anthony Mackie — will have to face off against himself, but it’s not really himself, it’s just someone else in his old sleeve, or more likely a clone of his old sleeve, because his original body died years ago.

Sci-fi, amirite?

Anyway, the story of season 2 will differ from the one explored in Morgan’s novels, which was apparently so elaborate it would break the budget. All eight new episodes drop on February 27.

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