The premise: in 2384, a human’s mind is digitized into a cortical stack; death becomes an interruption rather than an end. Takeshi Kovacs, a former revolutionary turned paid problem-solver, is reawakened centuries later to solve a billionaires’ murder. Season 1 compresses existential questions into a hardboiled detective arc while staging a city of vertical inequality — the ultra-rich “meths” live in orbital luxury; everyone else scrapes by beneath neon towers.