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The term that gets tossed around for these people is “meth,” and the word gets used quite a bit in “Altered Carbon,” but what exactly it means can be tough to pick up from context.

In “Altered Carbon,” the most long-lived people are the ones who have the insane wealth necessary to get around these complications.Īlso Read: 'Altered Carbon': Are People in the Future Actually Immortal, and What Are Stacks? They might change bodies now and again, but bodies are expensive, and there’s another big risk: Apparently, changing sleeves too many times damages your consciousness (basically driving you permanently insane). Not everyone can afford to live forever, however. In “Altered Carbon,” switching into a new body, or “sleeve,” is pretty common, and doing so extends people’s lifespans considerably. The result is that even if your body is killed, as long as your Stack is undamaged it can be inserted into a new body, allowing you to go on living, at least in theory.

The primary concept that informs the show’s world, and thus the esoteric sci-fi concept that is mentioned most often, is the “Stack,” a small computer inserted into people’s brains when they turn one year old, on which a person’s consciousness is installed like software. So we’re gonna help you out a little bit by explaining the basics, like this whole “Meths” thing they keep talking ahout. And while, yeah, you may not have much else to do during your coronavirus quarantine other than watch TV and think real hard about what you’re watching, I don’t think any of us really wants to think too hard about anything right now. It just seems that way because this fictional sci-fi universe has a ton of its own lingo that you generally have to absorb through context.

While “Altered Carbon” on Netflix might seem like an overly complicated show sometimes, it really isn’t. We’re just doing a quick refresher on the weird terminology of the series, so you don’t have to worry about having season 2 spoiled.) (Note: This post contains light spoilers for season 1 of “Altered Carbon” on Netflix.