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- Episode aired May 1, 2020
- TV-MA
- 24m
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
2.1K
YOUR RATING
Nathan's restored memories and shifting emotional allegiances put Nora in physical danger.Nathan's restored memories and shifting emotional allegiances put Nora in physical danger.Nathan's restored memories and shifting emotional allegiances put Nora in physical danger.
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Mark Anthony Pariñas
- Worker
- (as Mark Parinas)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe joystick that the travel agent uses on his desk is the joystick from the old Atari 2600
- GoofsNathan's facial expression changed after he was frozen.
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Season One Review
Greg Daniels reputation is such that anything he's involved with becomes highly anticipated, as was the case with this Amazon Prime series in which he's a producer and wrote four of the episodes.
Set in the near future, "Upload" tells the story of coder Nathan Brown (Robbie Amell) who following a car accident has his consciousness uploaded to a digital "heaven" funded by his rich girlfriend Ingrid (Allegra Edwards). The digital heaven offers an "angel" service, real humans who log into the digital world and provide technical and emotional support to the clients. Nathan's angel is Nora (Andy Allo) and the pair form a friendship. But there are gaps in Nathan's memory, specifically related to what he was working on at the time of his death. Could there be something more to his death?
Overall I'd say I enjoyed "Upload" but I wouldn't say that I loved it. It's hard to really say way, I think I liked it when it was more into its comedy and its love story than its murder-mystery aspects. Amell and Allo are great, and there's a fun chemistry between them. Some of the supporting cast are pretty solid, Zainab Johnson and Kevin Bigley have nice chemistry too and I liked the fact that neither of our leads other love interests, though having bad characteristics, are completely bad people. Ingrid isn't entirely self-serving and vacuous and Jamie, played by Jordan Johnson-Hinds, doesn't remain a playboy hook up.
The show is funny, when it's trying to be. With gags about current technology and issues transposed to a future. The technical aspects of running and maintaining a digital heaven are fun but the murder mystery occasionally acts like an anchor holding the show down. Particularly as threads of it, such as the murder of the investigator, are seemingly never discussed again. I'm prepared for anyone to say that I'm over thinking it, but I also struggled to follow the rules for touching and movement in and around the virtual world. Occasionally, when the plot wanted it too, you had to wear gloves or full suits for touching, whilst at other times it didn't seem to matter, occasionally Nora had to log in at work and at other times could access from home. Plus, at one point a character takes an object from the real world and hands it to a character in the virtual one.
I don't want to sound too down on a show that, as I say, I mostly enjoyed but it's not quite as top tier as I think, with a bit of refocusing, it could have been.
Set in the near future, "Upload" tells the story of coder Nathan Brown (Robbie Amell) who following a car accident has his consciousness uploaded to a digital "heaven" funded by his rich girlfriend Ingrid (Allegra Edwards). The digital heaven offers an "angel" service, real humans who log into the digital world and provide technical and emotional support to the clients. Nathan's angel is Nora (Andy Allo) and the pair form a friendship. But there are gaps in Nathan's memory, specifically related to what he was working on at the time of his death. Could there be something more to his death?
Overall I'd say I enjoyed "Upload" but I wouldn't say that I loved it. It's hard to really say way, I think I liked it when it was more into its comedy and its love story than its murder-mystery aspects. Amell and Allo are great, and there's a fun chemistry between them. Some of the supporting cast are pretty solid, Zainab Johnson and Kevin Bigley have nice chemistry too and I liked the fact that neither of our leads other love interests, though having bad characteristics, are completely bad people. Ingrid isn't entirely self-serving and vacuous and Jamie, played by Jordan Johnson-Hinds, doesn't remain a playboy hook up.
The show is funny, when it's trying to be. With gags about current technology and issues transposed to a future. The technical aspects of running and maintaining a digital heaven are fun but the murder mystery occasionally acts like an anchor holding the show down. Particularly as threads of it, such as the murder of the investigator, are seemingly never discussed again. I'm prepared for anyone to say that I'm over thinking it, but I also struggled to follow the rules for touching and movement in and around the virtual world. Occasionally, when the plot wanted it too, you had to wear gloves or full suits for touching, whilst at other times it didn't seem to matter, occasionally Nora had to log in at work and at other times could access from home. Plus, at one point a character takes an object from the real world and hands it to a character in the virtual one.
I don't want to sound too down on a show that, as I say, I mostly enjoyed but it's not quite as top tier as I think, with a bit of refocusing, it could have been.
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- southdavid
- May 21, 2020
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- Runtime24 minutes
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