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Originally Posted by TheChamp11
From what I've seen (4 eps so far), one of the problems is that it doesn't really do this. They could go a lot of different ways in exploring the moral/ethical/societal questions that this world brings up, but they don't really do anything with that (so far at least) beyond a very surface-level view.
Sex and violence tho!
Yeah I like the show so far(episode 3), but it oddly underplays a lot of the sci-fi aspects to more directly focus on the murder mystery elements that easily could've been written in the present day.
I assume there's more coming, there's one throwaway line by the stripper about how the rich guy would buy new sleeves for hookers he went too far with that hinted at that, but the show is set in a world of functional immortality and interstellar travel via bodyswapping and it mostly imagines that causes like, some problems with your marriage.
(it's also very weird that a guy being unfrozen after 250 years gets precisely zero fish-out-of-water moments where he's confused by changes in society and technology since he was frozen. How good would someone from 1760 be at using a Microsoft Surface to cross reference Twitter death threats with geotagged locations and Linkedin profiles that indicate military backgrounds?)