How do you solve the murder of a person who has lived for 360 years? Netflix's newest sci-fi series Altered Carbon seeks to unravel that question. Set 300 years into the future, the show's events are centred around a technologically-advanced, dystopian world where when a person dies, their conscience can be transferred into another body.During an attempted uprising, sometime in the near future, an elite military unit is defeated and killed off, then a new world order is set. Takeshi Kovacs (played by Joel Kinnaman who you may remember as Governor Will Conway on Netflix's House of Cards) was also killed in that interstellar warfare alongside his peers, but his conscience is stored and 250 years later is implanted into a new body. Whoa!I know how that sounds, even when I'm writing this. There's a catch, you don't just come to life after 250 years and think it's all roses and wine (Valentine's hint). He is the property of Bancroft Industries, the wealthiest man on earth and who wants his murder to be solved. Who better than Takeshi to do it?The first episode opens with flashbacks of Takeshi's murder and then we see him being brought to life. He is highly skilled in combat and he seems to have heightened sense because he can predict people's next movement. He is released from a plastic bag and in a moment there it looks like rebirth. You'd expect him to be confused about where he is but within minutes he understands where he is and the nature of the new society.Takeshi will then meet Laurens Bancroft and that is when the story is now in motion. If you love tech and everything Sci-fi, the setting will impress you. Flying cars anyone? What about a building in the clouds? Yes. In the future we shall be living in the clouds. There's also enough action to keep you on the edge. Laurens' wife is also a mysterious woman as she is seductive. It's hard to tell what her endgame is but the few lines she's given in the first few episodes will leave you intrigued.However, the plotline is a bit too complex if you want something easy. It will take you a while for you to figure out what's going on. This is not one of those series that make you think, "set 400 years later". You have to remember that there is a storyline you might miss about the interstellar wars that took place before the new world was set to how it is now. The dialogue also sucks big time. In one instance, Takeshi scolds a young school girl for talking to him about her friends by saying, "…all your friends will die and you'll be alone so it's better not to have any". Bitter much? Apart from the monologues by Takeshi, the rest feels lazy.If you're ready to go in deep, watch Altered Carbon. You will appreciate the complexities that science and technology are likely to present in the future. But if you hate 55-minute long episodes that don't give away much apart from heavy technology and why humans are violent beings, you may wanna skip this one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhFM8akm9a4