Halfway through Altered Carbon. It has the usual affliction of Netflix shows: the pacing gets slower and slower as the series progresses. Maybe they should just commission fewer episodes.
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I could do with less of the (torture and regular) porn, but I guess that's the HBO standard now. I have a crackpot theory that porniness lowers average acting quality, by imposing an extra filter on the selection process -- actors always needed good faces and good voices...
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...and now leads, anyway, have to look good naked. That narrows the field for actresses, and requires actors to use steroids.
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Replying to @St_Rev
There is also the effect of eliminating actors with strict nudity clauses in their contracts. Smaller pool thus lower quality? The book is substantially about torture, btw, so that's accurately reflected in the series.
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saying the same thing, extra filter = smaller pool
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