Upload - new show on Amazon

Cafe Society
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Saw a trailer for this on Amazon and checked it out. Wound up bingewatching the entire 10 episode season yesterday and today.

Premise: technology has progressed to where a person’s personality/intellect/memories can be upload to a computer network, allowing them to continue after the demise of their physical body.

  1. The person must be alive to be uploaded
  2. Uploading destroys the head so if you weren’t dying before, you are certainly dead now.

Don’t want to further spoil it, but you follow what happens to Nathan Brown after he is in a car accident and is uploaded. Hijinks, drama, mystery, and love ensue.

I thought the characters were interesting - the good ones aren’t wholly good, even some of the more villainous ones aren’t entirely bad.

Anyone else watching?

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I did. I liked it, my wife passed on it. I thought it did a good job of world-building, hinting at larger things to build upon in later seasons (A.I./avatar rights, black market, etc.), and a lesser job of writing believable characters. I did actually like the two main characters, and thought they had pretty good chemistry, but thought the girlfriend was either poorly written, poorly acted, or both.

It’s a fun binge-worthy indulgence that I’d recommend when people are out of light material to watch.

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Here’s the previous topic about it:

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I lost interest after the first two episodes, but I have to admit the Pet Therapy gag had me rolling.

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I thought it was okay, like junk food TV. You have to go into with the mentality of it being a silly show set in a sci fi environment rather than expecting them to take the premise seriously.

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Yeah, but I NEED some light viewing! Too much stuff is dark, dark, grimdark, and more dark. I need some silly in my life. This year has been too much chaos and darkness - let’s hear for mental junk food!

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Here’s the previous thread on the show - Upload on Amazon Prime; A fun binge with awesome world building - #20 by alphaboi867

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Oops, I see the link to the previous thread was already posted.

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You know, I looked for a previous thread and couldn’t find one. Still getting used to this new format.

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Mrs. L.A. and I thought it was hilarious. Can’t wait for the next season.

Something I was thinking of: Nora’s father is dying of vape lung. (I don’t think this is much of a spoiler, since it’s brought up as soon as you hear of him.) Dad doesn’t want to be uploaded, because he believes his late wife is in Heaven and he wants to go to Heaven to be with her. Nora wants him to be uploaded. I don’t remember hearing this argument: ‘Dad, if you’re right and you go to Heaven when you die, you’ll still go to heaven even if you’re uploaded. If there’s a soul, then it’s different from the upload. Your soul can be with mom, and your virtual self can be with me.’