Altered Carbon is set in the 24th century when the human mind has been digitized, and the soul itself is transferable from one body ("sleeve") to the next. Takeshi Kovacs, a former elite interstellar warrior known as an Envoy whose cortical stack has been stored for 250 years, is given the choice to spend the rest of time in prison for his crimes, or solve a single murder in a world where technology has made death nearly obsolete.
These shows are an acquired taste. They may be described in one or more of the following ways...hard to follow, unsettling, ridiculously far fetched, slow moving, borderline raunchy etc.