Upload (Amazon, 2020): A TV Series About a Digital Afterlife
Amazon’s Upload (2020) has 10 episodes, and they fly by. The first one runs about 46 minutes, the rest are half an hour each.
Upload, Amazon Prime Video
An interesting idea, beautiful visuals, simple in places and unusual in others, plus a good rating. It’s a show about what our future might look like.
What it’s about
It’s 2033. A dying person can be “uploaded”: their consciousness is transferred into a digital afterlife where they go on living. The main character, programmer Nathan Brown (Robbie Amell), is killed in a self-driving car crash and ends up in Lakeview, a luxury virtual resort run by the company Horizen. His “eternal life” is paid for by his wealthy girlfriend Ingrid, which means she now sets the rules.
Every Lakeview resident has an “angel”, a customer support agent from the real world. Nathan’s is Nora Antony (Andy Allo). The two grow close, and along the way it turns out that Nathan’s death may not have been an accident.
The show was created by Greg Daniels, who adapted the American Office and co-created Parks and Recreation. It premiered on Amazon Prime Video on May 1, 2020, and a week later Amazon renewed Upload for a second season.
Rating
On KinoPoisk, the big Russian-language movie site, it has a rating of 7.52.
Upload’s rating on KinoPoisk
Who will like it
It mixes everything: comedy, romance, a murder mystery and satire on the tech world, where even heaven has in-app purchases and the poorer residents run out of gigabytes.
If you love technology, dream of new digital possibilities and secretly want to live a long time, even if not in your own body but with your own knowledge and mind, then this show is worth watching – you should like it :-)