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LaxScrutiny

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Is anyone else watching this? If not you should be.

This show ticks all the boxes. It's true science fiction, putting real human drama, relationships, murder mystery, and more, into a dystopian future revolving around the dead being uploaded into a virtual world governed by a corporate capitalist micro-economy, exploring the dead's relationships with the living, within an "Office Space" vibe. Funny, quirky, and compelling.

Top notch writing, production, effects, acting, drama, and shit that makes you think. Just finished season one and it's an unexpected cliffhanger that has me hooked. Brilliant so far.

I'd love to exchange some comments.
 
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I started watching the first season, but then---COVID! Didn't even know there was a new season until now. I need to go back and start from the beginning, but It is in a queue so it might be awhile.
 
I watched the first two episodes and bailed. It seemed to be a typical afterlife show with the hook involving computers, I think. The Good Place is a much better afterlife show. If you haven’t already, and you like these kinds of shows, you should try The Good Place.

It’s VERY different and is awesomely writtem and acted.
 
gblews said:
I watched the first two episodes and bailed. It seemed to be a typical afterlife show with the hook involving computers, I think. The Good Place is a much better afterlife show. If you haven’t already, and you like these kinds of shows, you should try The Good Place.

It’s VERY different and is awesomely writtem and acted.
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It takes a turn sometime in the first season and continues quite well from there and has a very good season finale.

I like it and it's not too much of a time investment.
 
Upload is not necessarily an after-life show. People's consciousness can be uploaded to an artificial construct where they can interact with others in the construct or with those outside the construct. These constructs are operated by different companies (one being Verizon) along with other amenities that are extras.

What was interesting is that I had watched season one after watching a National Geographic series, Year Million, narrated by Laurence Fishburne that deals with issues such as uploading one's consciousness into a synthetic body or virtual construct. That series is available on either Disney+ or IMDb via Amazon (not included with Amazon Prime).
 
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Upload is not necessarily an after-life show.
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But the people who are uploaded in the show are dead, right? S yeah, in terms of what sub genre it fits into, Uploaded is an “afterlife,” show, it’s just that Uploaded uses as it’s hook, or gimmick, computers in place of “heaven” or “hell.” It is a superficial difference from most other afterlife shows, art nest..

The Good Place also an afterlife show, but I agree with @theenglish it is SO much more than that.

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San Junipero, yet another awesome afterlife story that I think is better than Uploaded. .
 
The protagonist was uploaded before he was dead. In one episode, they were attempting the first download back into a body. It didn't go well.
 
So I banged out season 2 over the weekend and I found it very engaging. There's some definite expansion on the intrigue introduced in the first season and I'm really hoping season 3 doesn't take as long to get here, as there some real loose ends to tie up.
 
Non Sync said:
The protagonist was uploaded before he was dead. In one episode, they were attempting the first download back into a body. It didn't go well.
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I think you may be getting hung up on extraneous details that do not change the fundamental nature of the show. Regardless of how the “life after death” scenario is achieved, the show is still about life after death, thus making Upload an “afterlife” show.

Even if you don’t watch The Good Place, you should watch that Black Mirror episode, San Junipero.
 
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gblews said:
I think you may be getting hung up on extraneous details that do not change the fundamental nature of the show. Regardless of how the “life after death” scenario is achieved, the show is still about life after death, thus making Upload an “afterlife” show.
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You and I are both human (presumably) but that alone doesn't make you worth knowing.
 
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You and I are both human (presumably) but that alone doesn't make you worth knowing.
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True, nor would that alone necessarily make you worth knowing eiher, human or not. But, I have no clue as to what this is supposed to mean, or how, or if, it is related to the topic ar hand. Care to clarify?
 
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gblews said:
I have no clue as to what this is supposed to me, or how, or if, it is related to the topic ar hand. Can you clarify?
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If your premise is that Upload being an "after life show" does not allow it to be unique from other "after life shows", then your ignoring of "extraneous details" should also apply to other analogous comparisons; for example, the "extraneous details" that differentiate human individuals.

As such, I have no clue what you think you are pointing out, which supports my premise and identifies you as "not worth knowing."

To clarify, since you seem to need supplementary help, "extraneous details" make a difference. You don't.
 
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LaxScrutiny said:
To clarify, since you seem to need supplementary help, "extraneous details" make a difference.
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Exactly! To me though, when people talk of an "afterlife" show--it is a show whose premise takes place in a world or reality after people have passed on or died, and its purpose/theme is to ask the questions about the meaning of life or our life's purpose.

As with any other premise (super-heroes, crew on a space ship, hospital staff, lawyers, police officers, first responders, etc) it is the "extraneous details" that make it unique and interesting/entertaining or not interesting/entertaining.
 
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If your premise is that Upload being an "after life show" does not make it unique from other "after life shows" then
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But that was not my premise. My premise was, and is, that Upload is an afterlife show ar it’s core, regardless of the extraneous details.

I never said Uploas was the same as all other afterlife shows. But the things that some might think make it “not necessarily an afterlife show,” really don”5 change what the show is, fundamentally.


your ignoring of "extraneous details" should also apply to other analogous comparisaons; for example, the "extraneous details" that differentiate human indifiduals.
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Oh, that’s what you meant? Okay. But again, what I’m saying is not that the extraneous details don’t make the show unique, I’m saying that the extraneous details don’t change the show into anything but ab afterlife show.

That’s no insult. I said The Good Place and San Junipero are also afterlife shows.

You know, you also should check out San Junipero.
 
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