Upload - new Amazon Prime TV show

[FPAlpha]

So on a hunch i started watching Upload, a new comedy/drama show on Amazon Prime and i am very pleasantly surprised.

The show is set in the near future (2033) and a technology is available to upload your consciousness into a virtual environment, making a person effectively immortal.
The lead, Robbie Amell (brother of Stephen Amell of Arrow fame and he himself had a small role in the Arrowverse too), plays a programmer whose automatic car malfunctions and kills him.
He is uploaded to a lakeside luxury hotel and starts to deal with "afterlife" and it is both hilarious and a not so thinly veiled criticism on modern life (at one point he wants to snack out of the room bar but needs to pay microtransaction style for it).
I only watched the first 2 episodes now out of 10 but the show also has a season plot where it's made evident that is death was not really an accident.

It is very funny both in itself and the way it criticizes society - at one point the female co-lead of the show has a Tinder like hookup for the night, they talk about protection (you automatically assume condoms and they do pullout condom style packets) and it turns out to be small bodycams where they each record that they consent to sex and they afterwards grade each other online eager to get that 5 star rating as if it was Yelp - both funny and a bit thought provoking.

I'm continue watching now but i didn't have this much fun with an original show in a while. Check it out.

 

[JD]

Robbie Amell is Stephen Amell's cousin, not his brother.
So is this as similar to The Good Place as the trailer made it look?
Either way, the trailer did look really fun and I'm planning out checking it out once I get through some of the my other stuff on my ever growing to watch lists.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

San Junipero: The series?

 

[FPAlpha]

Robbie Amell is Stephen Amell's cousin, not his brother.
So is this as similar to The Good Place as the trailer made it look?
Either way, the trailer did look really fun and I'm planning out checking it out once I get through some of the my other stuff on my ever growing to watch lists.

San Junipero: The series?

I've seen both shows/movies referenced in connection to it but i can't tell since i haven't seen seem.

The show gets dark at times, there was one scene or event in the third or fourth episode where he attends his own funeral from his virtual reality afterlife that left my mouth open in shock at the concept - the show doesn't hold back on consumerism critique i can tell you that but the metaplot of the show is engaging and the leads have very good chemistry. The cliffhanger is also both gripping and emotional as cliffhangers should be (no worries, season 2 has already been confirmed).

You have to suspend disbelief somewhat though.. especially the technology that let's people live on in virtual reality. The show is set in 2033, so much too soon to have such a society changing technology seem realistic and the way they handle VR outside of it with headsets is inconsistent and often enough wrong for what the avatar then does in the VR environment (sometimes they use special full body suits, sometimes only gloves and at times only a headset).
But if you tune that out it is an awesome show with a brilliant concept.