Netflix's Altered Carbon is TV's raddest science fiction show

There are a lot of serious topics covered in Altered Carbon, a new science fiction series from Netflix. It delves into misogynistic power structures and the nature of identity. It touches on just how much of our morality is driven by the fact that we die and what might happen if death suddenly stopped being an endpoint and, instead, became a minor stopgap in an ultimately immortal life. But that is not what I'm here to talk to you about. Because while watching Altered Carbon -- even the stuff I didn't like all that much -- my primary critical reaction was, "This is so RAD!!!!" Imagine me sitting in the back of eighth-grade study hall, filling my notebook with scrawled images from this show (that my parents don't know I've seen, because if they did, my Netflix consumption would be seriously questioned), occasionally clicking over my four-color pen to red to write the word "rad" in all caps in the margins.