Altered Carbon may have been too weird and cerebral for Netflix viewers

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"As a fan of weird and wacky sci-fi TV shows, I'm used to having my hopes dashed by sudden network cancelations," says Bonnie Burton. "Heck, I'm still not over Firefly never getting a second season. So when news hit on Wednesday that Netflix canceled the mind-bending sci-fi thriller Altered Carbon, I was sad, but not shocked.  Whenever I would attempt to explain Altered Carbon to friends, they would respond with perplexed expressions as if to say, 'This sounds like a lot of work.' They're not wrong. I have notes on random sheets of paper I scribbled while watching, just to stay on top of who's who and what they were doing in the show."