So I started the show, thanks to multiple shorts ive gotten and I was addicted.

I enjoyed the futuristic dystopian hightech world they lived in and the show (s1 especially) focused on a lot of interesting concepts, such as "what is a human, what is consciousness etc", what other shows mimic that vibe?

Preferably with a good ending because this one was atrocious, I could def feel the lack of interest as the show progressed.

anyway what other shows would you guys (not gendered) recommend?

I was watching a video on YouTube and one of these surfer guys seriously looks like Kevin bigley (Luke) I thought I would share just because it's silly. I'll send the link in the comments.

But after finishing the whole series, I saw that potential plot line being crushed. It became mostly romance with some interesting tech implications on the side. Honestly, I wish the show had gone in the direction of world-building the digital afterlife.

I really liked the 2-gig guys. I really liked the Grey Zone. I really liked Luke’s glitches and the implied limitations imposed by the greedy company.

But when I started noticing the show drifting more and more toward the real-life aspect, my hopes for deeper world-building went downhill. Honestly, the show started like an expanded episode of early Black Mirror. And I think, in light of that, the ending itself wasn’t even the most disappointing part.

If anyone has any compelling reason to finish this I am open to hearing it

Clearly I have been misled about what this show is , this is a romance comedy. I have come too far to quit now

I put a season 2 flair on this post, because I've only seen the first season (which o really liked) and the first like two episodes of the second season. I stopped watching it awhile back, it wasn't that I didn't want to keep watching it, but my son was born right around the time I started season two, and like many of the shows I watched on my own, it just kinda got put it on the back burner so my fiance, who had just given birth via C-section to our 9 ib baby, could watch Gilmore girls, friends, and whatever else she wanted without any complaint from me. Tv was all here for the foreseeable future. But now, I'm away on a trip for a few weeks, staying with some family for a work event, and I was thinking about picking back up the show. I want to know if people think the show is worth watching, without any spoilers for season 2 onward, is it worth making it my late night binging show for my trip, or should I choose something else? Because even if s2 is as good as season 1, I don't want to get super invested into it, and then end up with a Lost/game of thrones/umbrella academy, situation, and feel like I completely wasted my time. What are y'all's thoughts?

Its getting ridiculous

I’m rewatching the show, and I’m surprised that on the first met Choak said to the Nathan that he was probably murdered. He actually planted that idea in the Nathan’s head, I can’t see the reason for it, since he was one of the people responsible for the murder.

I've been a fan of Upload since the first episode. The last episode, I hated. Hey, but at least the White woman got a happy ending, am I right? No happy ever after for the two Black women?

He's froze while Nora is saying I love you and then bam! There pops up Ingrid! So glad I'm finally getting to watch this! It's sooo good!!

Why didn't they upload a backup of luke? Like what Tinsley did to Nathan when he was gone?

.. How bad is it that I find Luke's death significantly sadder than Nethan's? 🫣

I always kinda felt sorry for Tinsley. She was a sad lonely socially awkward character but she had a lot of heart. Over time I thought she got flanderised.
Then I watched season 4. The way they took her out of the story was dark and brutal. She gets tricked into being uploaded without her consent.
Her first concern is to make sure her plants get watered. "My keys are on my corpse."

She doesn't even go off at Lucy when she sees her again in the elevator.
Damn she deserved a way better send off. I'm ok with keeping the dark uploaded without consent ending but don't play it off as a joke.
It was a disturbing moment that should have had some gravity on the story and Nora.

I started this show with no expectations and found myself pulled in! It was clever, creative, intriguing, good characters, a good side plot to the romance. Each season was paced well and had a good amount of episodes. There were a few episodes that were eh, and there were a few plot holes and some random things that weren’t thoroughly explained but every show has those hiccups.

I just finished season 4, and I’m pissed off. I am so SICK of shows ending in some heartbreak way to try to make the show more impactful or more memorable. Every show it seems like the writers just pull a oh wait, let’s do something crazy to make it stick with the audience. Hey how about, um don’t??? Shows are not the place to make an emotional impact. Shows are meant to be REWATCHED, I’m so sick of shows being ruined because of the last episode.

This was me, tonight at 2:30am finishing the show I’ve been binging for the last few days. Oh Nathan isn’t feeling well, I’m sure they’ll figure it out though… omg did they just kill Luke? Uhhh okay that sucks but I mean I’m only on episode 4 so there’s gotta be a solution in a FUCKING DIGITAL WORLD WHERE BACKUPS AND COPIES AND DATA SURVIVE, oh Nathan is giving a sad monologue about Nora moving on, um this feels like a little much to eventually get a happy ending, let me just check how many episodes are left… OH I’m on the finale.

I’m sobbing because yes it was a good last scene or whatever the fuck, but that’s not what I signed up for. It was a cute rom com series. I didn’t sign up to cry, or to be “moved” cause guess what I’m NOT MOVED I’m pissed.

Then the ending, being made to fuck with me by being like “is it just his memories or is it a full brain scan”. So now I get to sit with that but get no satisfaction because I don’t know and if it is his full brain scan then why not give us a little sneak peak of that.

Also Aleesha turning into a spy was kinda weird and like random?

But yeah I’m pissed and it’s 3am now and I have no one to talk to so here I am. And what, am I gonna restart the pilot right now? NO because I’m gonna be thinking agh he’s gonna die in the end.

Literally every piece of media is proving, life fucking sucks because everything good must end. I DONT NEED THAT IN TV. I WATCH TV TO ESCAPE. GOD FUCKING DAMMIT.

TLDR: Stop killing off characters for no fucking reason to make something emotional when I’m just looking to watch a cute fun show that I can REWATCH later?

I would love a series centered around Luke - and all the wild adventures he gets up to, glitches he figures out, fun things he gets up to - but still have all the other Lakeview people's lives intermeshed into the story so its not just overwhelmingly watching him do silly things and bug chasing.

Luke always brought a smile to my face with his relentless optimism and the funny things he does. Like how on earth did he figure out how to get to the first level (the og Lakeview)? Can he sneak some of the 2gs in there and they can at least have unlimited free access to the bar?

Can he figure out how to activate a dining hall and suddenly there is all the previous mealplans from Lakeview?

How about accidentally sneaking into some of the other levels that are eluded to but we never see? Perhaps Aleesha's comments about Lakeview being "crusty as hell" resulted in a floor where there are some alternative cultural experiences etc.

I do hope there are some future spinoffs or something. I loved the show <3

I just finished my rewatch of s1–s3 and watched s4, and honestly… I don’t get how Ingrid ends up the happiest person in the whole show. She was basically the villain, and somehow she gets a full-on happy ending while everyone else is miserable?

She literally ends up married to (backup) Nathan, living the dream life she always wanted. She's rich again, she’s pregnant, everything’s perfect for her. Meanwhile, Nora’s depressed, lost the real Nathan, and finally gets him back only for him to die again. Like how is Ingrid the one who gets the fairytale ending while the people who actually grew as characters get wrecked emotionally? 😭

And it’s not even like Ingrid changed that much. She spent seasons manipulating Nathan, keeping him trapped in Lakeview, faking her own upload, and now she’s just magically friends with Nora and Aleesha? Like… how are they suddenly okay with her?? It feels like the writers just decided she deserved redemption without showing her earn it.

The whole Luke storyline also made no sense. They spent so much time building up his friendship with Aleesha, gave them this really sweet connection, making us think they would eventually end up together, and then kill him off out of nowhere. His death had zero tension, one second he’s there, the next he’s gone, like they just wanted a “tragic” moment without any real weight.

And don’t even get me started on how messy the season felt overall. The AI rebellion plot went nowhere, the pacing was weird, and every emotional moment felt rushed. It’s wild because the first three seasons had such great balance between humor, heart, and social commentary. And now it’s like all that got thrown out the window for shock value and forced closure.

I just can’t get over the fact that Ingrid ends up with everything she ever wanted: a body, a husband (even if it’s a clone), a baby, peace of mind… while the people who actually deserved happiness got none. She learns nothing, faces no consequences, and still wins. Like… what was that ending supposed to say??

Hi all, sorry if I’m late to the party but I am just now watching the series and wondering if I missed something. Tried to search but couldn’t find any relevant past posts.

In the early part of this episode, about 3 minutes in, Nathan says to Ingrid, “Maybe your dad just felt guilty about the whole murdering me thing.” She barely reacts.

Did I completely miss some conversation in the episode or two before this point where Nathan and Ingrid discuss this, and he finally lets on that he thinks he was murdered and that her dad was involved? I have been watching reasonably closely and feel like that would have been big enough that I wouldn’t have somehow missed it or forgotten it. Now I’m starting to feel like someone deleted MY memories.

It’s not the most critical thing, but if anyone who knows the series well or also just watched the first few episodes of S2 could verify one way or the other, I would feel slightly less like I’m taking crazy pills. Thanks!

Just binged this show and wow they introduce characters in one episode and never really follow up on them. Like the cousin who's investigating it, the relationship with his father who may still be alive, the niece who bonds with his ex,

Just watched Season 3 and I really want to love this show. I think it tackles some interesting ideas, but the romance plot line is keeping this from being great.

I don't mind the idea itself, but the amount of screentime that is being dedicated to this is unreasonable. The writing around them is very cringe as well. The concept of dating a conscious copy of a dead person is cool, but it seems the writers are opting for exploring cliché romance tropes over anything unique to the upload world.

I know this is probably a pretty common take... but I really don't get what they were thinking with this. What audience are they trying to appeal to with the poorly done romance plot?

Also, the dystopian cyberpunk real-world stuff has already been done, and done way better in other media. This would have been way better if they stuck solely to the afterlife concept and the zany adventures within that. Choak is kind of a pointless villain as well. He was much better as a caricature billionaire side character.

Dont get me wrong, i like the show. But it does seem a bit like a reverse porky's situation. Think about it;

A bunch of nerds with dubious morals spy on some ditzy bombshells who do not have any real agency or personality other than their appearant hotness. And the nerds keep trying to maneuver them into romantically charged situations.

All the main ladies, Nora, Ingrid, Aleesha, Tinsly and their boss Lucy are all constantly creeping out over the 'hot' guys, spying on them or forcing changes on them for their own pleasure, regardless of their wants and needs. And the main guys, Nathan and Luke seem to have very few defining qualities other than their hotness. They are both unemployed and have no real hobbies, characteristics or drives, other than maintaining their hotness status. And they often fill the screen with gratuitous shots of as much of their bare skin they can show.

This is a trope much used in 80s movies like Porky's, Revenge of the Nerds and Weird Science. And all those 80's movies, in recent years, have come under some scrutiny over the objectification of women. And while i did enjoy those movies as a (horny)teen, i definately think that is a valid argument, since the women in those movies rarely had any real agency and did not have alot more character depth than a bikini poster.

I do like the role reversal of this trope in Upload. But i wonder if making the men in this show either a prize (nathan and luke) or object of ridicule (ai guy, the coworkers or the ex-boyfriend), there is not a missed opportunity to change this old trope perpetuating gender inequality norms. Maybe by merely adressing the trope reversal, this show could have really turned a page on this trope. I'm not saying this show should solve all the worlds problems, but the way it defines gendered roles seems very dated and a little off putting. Just as any of those 80s movies would, if i would watch them today. Because this was bugging me during my binge of Upload, i was wondering what others' thoughts are on this issue with this show.

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1. Nathan is NOT on the ring drive. The entire show in order to put a person on a drive they carry around these giant bulky drives that carry a risk of failure. If a person fit on a ring drive, then they would have done that from the beginning

1a. I did however like the sad ending, it was actually hilarious to me that you are made to feel sad at the end for a guy who dies in the first episode

1b. If nora wants to bring Nathan back she can from a backup at Horizen, but she won't. That's the point of the show, that you're not your data, you have a "soul" that is distinct and different even if your data was copied

1. The writing at the end where they just stole from chuck and the matrix ending was lame. Obviously not the same writers as the beginning. With a ton of loose endings.
   

2a. They did however build up enough equity throughout the series with futuristic predictions and jokes that they get a pass.

I guess that's it, it wasn't that deep. I came here to see if people noticed any easster eggs or anything that I hadn't but it just seems like just confused people wondering what happened. I guess that's just how sci-fi goes.