In 2033, people who are near death can be “uploaded” into virtual reality hotels run by 6 tech firms. Cash-strapped Nora lives in Brooklyn and works customer service for the luxurious “Lakeview” digital afterlife. When L.A. party-boy/coder Nathan’s self-driving car crashes, his high-maintenance girlfriend uploads him permanently into Nora’s VR world.
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- r6novakSeptember 11, 2025Great Show and it's a fun, easy one to digest. The season were too short though and they rushed the ending.
- CallumNovember 5, 2025⭐⭐⭐⭐½ – Upload – Digital Heaven, Corporate Hell Upload takes the concept of the afterlife and plugs it straight into the cloud — then asks, “who owns your soul once it’s digitised?” In a near-future world where death is optional (provided you can afford the subscription), the series fuses dark satire, sci-fi futurism, and a surprisingly warm human heart. What should be paradise becomes a high-resolution prison, where customer service never sleeps, the data plan always expires, and grief comes with a renewal fee. Our protagonist — idealistic, brilliant, and recently murdered — slowly discovers that his death was no accident. His crime? Designing a free alternative to digital immortality. His killer? The very company now hosting his consciousness, turning heaven itself into a corporate walled garden. For all its tension, Upload never loses its wit — it’s the My Little Pony end of the dystopian scale, a bright and funny echo of capitalism’s future that still believes love and decency can exist inside the code. Romantic entanglements, clingy friends, and an ever-tangling love quadrangle keep the human warmth alive amidst the satire. The show sits comfortably between The Good Place and Black Mirror — a pastel warning wrapped in a hug. Hope shines through every pixel, even as the system tries to monetise it. 🥤 Drink pairing: a chilled glass of lemon water — simple, cleansing, and exactly what you need when the world (or afterlife) gets too complicated.
