SNAPSHOT
“In Upload Season Two, Nathan is at a crossroads in his (after) life… his ex-girlfriend Ingrid has unexpectedly arrived to Lakeview hoping to strengthen their relationship, but his heart still secretly yearns for his customer service angel Nora. Meanwhile, Nora is off the grid and involved with the anti-tech rebel group “The Ludds.” Season Two is packed with new near-future concepts, including Lakeview’s newest in-app digital baby program called, “prototykes,” and other satirical glimpses of the technological advances and headaches to come.” (synopsis courtesy Collider)
Is there digital life after analogue death?
There is in Upload, a streaming series set in a supposed utopia where people can have their consciousness uploaded so they can enjoy a rich and rewardingly indulgent afterlife.
That’s if they can afford it, of course; if they can’t, well good luck because as with everything in our manically capitalistic world, your life-after-death is only as good as your ability to pay for it.
There’s a robust thread of social consciousness through this very funny show, which also has a great deal of heart to go with the quips, witty liners and absurdity, no surprise really given it’s from the people behind The Office and Parks and Recreation.
So well received was it when it debuted in 2020, that it was renewed after just seven days, something that this reviewer can well understand with this site’s review of the first season having this to say:
“Upload is very much its own vibrantly engaging creation, however, a show that winningly combines existential comedy, murder mystery, incisively affecting social commentary and ruminations on the afterlife in all its possible forms and which deserves the second season it has just been awarded, if only so we can find out if the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42 … or is it, in the brave new world digital world of the near-future, simply as many 0s and 1s as you can afford?”
It’s exciting that it’s back for another season, and as Collider notes, for many more to come – “the show’s niche fanbase indicates that several more seasons will follow this sophomore outing” – a reassuring beacon of thoughtful hilarity in a world grimly short of things about which to laugh.
All seven episode of Upload season 2 drop on 11 March on Prime Video.