It delved into some mostly dark issues - in a society where your entire life experience is continually backed up onto a recording device surgically implanted into your body. Should you die it can be transplanted into a new body, or "sleeve" (if you can afford it, of course).
The rich take full advantage, not only securing immortality by continually upgrading to new flesh, but engaging in weird fetishes and criminal acts.
-A cage match to the death with winner getting a new, better body and loser getting dead
Hookers paid handsomely to be beaten, torture, even killed, then provided with new bodies afterward
People moving their consciousness into cloned bodies of their friends/enemies/relatives and impersonating them for nefarious reasons
Lots of torture themes - with this tech you can torture someone to death, "re-sleeve" them and torture them again, ad infinitum
"Double-sleeving" - make an exact clone of yourself, download a copy of your mind and be two places at once
Or make love to yourself - one woman had an island playpen populated with identical copies of herself, narcissism gone wild
The masses get into it, too, although cost issues deny them the really fun stuff. Cloned bodies are too high but you can inhabit something from the slab at the morgue. One guy reanimates his wife, but the only body available was male. Woman brings back her mom, but it's a tattooed biker....
This is all woven around a murder mystery, with a rather unsatisfying ending
Sounds pretty much the same as the book. Wasn’t my thing and after reading the first one I didn’t read the sequels.