Did the writers even read their own scripts?

Time to keep kicking my way through this overproduced trainwreck.

It's got a really strong sort of JJ Abrams "look at how intricate and clever I think I am" asspull feel to it.

The sort of charisma she uses is equal parts primal fear and primal allure. Like you can't tell if you're afraid she's about to burst out of her human suit and tear you to shreds, or if she's just the sexiest thing ever

....okay, rereading that paragraph right after I wrote it is making me a little worried about myself, ngl.

Kovacs' writing might not measure up to his baseline in this scene. Hubert might be making me hate him. But, try as one might, there is simply no outdoing Detective Kirsten "Garfield Minus Garfield" Ortega.

How are Kovacs and Ortega in the same script? It's seriously night and day.

Oh god what has Ortega been doing to this corpse she stole holy fuck why.

He's one of the good slumming meths. When he kills one of his favorite hookers, he always buys them a brand shiny new sleeve, often younger, healthier, and hotter than the body they had before.

"Whenever" he kills one.

It turns out that Laurens Bancroft is...well, exactly as popular as you'd expect.

Raven is the best. I really hope that Kovacs stays in that hotel in the semi-long term, so that Raven isn't just a one episode wonder. Hell, I want Raven to be the Cortana to Kovacs' Master Chief and play adjutant/dispatch for him over neural commlink. It's not like that would be much sillier than the baseline for this show. Yeah, I'll say it: I fucking ship it.

Kovacs is so much better written than any of the other characters that he actually feels out of place in this show.

Industrial commodification of human minds and bodies. It's almost like this is cyberpunk or something.