I confess to never having watched Altered Carbon before. My boyfriend watched the first season then never went back and watched the second season. I decided to just start from the beginning with the first episode. Whose up for some cyberpunk?

In the 2300s, the consciousness of people can be transferred between bodies. James Purefoy plays billionaire who brings a specialist mercenary solider named Takeshi Kovacs back to life in a new body (Joel Kinnaman) in order to find out who murdered his previous rich guy body. The show is about how the solider (who was previously Japanese so the body switching seems kinda rude) adjusts to the future he’s woken up to. Meanwhile, a police investigator named Kristen Ortega (Martha Higareda) has a vendetta against Purefoy. Oh hey, Angelica Schuyler!

Poe is played by Chris Connor. Oh wait, you want to know why Edgar Allen Poe is in the year 2384? He’s an AI who is fashioned to look and somewhat behave as the Poe who died in the 1800s (including a gambling problem which I understand comes up in other episodes).

In the first episode, Poe is introduced at the proprietor of the Raven Hotel who over uses words like bleak. Still, they attempt to give him poetic flare. However, his AI personality makes him possessive and protective of Kovacs to the point of taking out a bunch of bad guys with a shotgun. I know Poe was in the military briefly, but I will never believe he was that good of a shot.