Greg Daniels’ Upload is coming back to Amazon in March
The show's second season will continue to follow Robbie Amell as a mostly-dead guy "living" in a virtual afterlife
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It’s been a year and a half now since Amazon debuted the first season of Greg Daniels’ Upload, its sci-fi dystopia series about the digital afterlife. Now—even as some of Daniels’ other, older projects, like King Of The Hill, are moving back into the limelight—the streamer has set a return date for the show’s second season: Friday, March 11.
Upload stars Robbie Amell as Nathan, a guy who gets fatally wounded in a self-driving car crash, and has his brain uploaded into a virtual community for dead people called Lake View. While there, he a) falls in love with his still-living customer service “handler,” Nora (Andy Allo), and, b) tries to figure out if there’s a vast global conspiracy behind his death. (Sort of!)
The first season of Upload was a decidedly weird show, mashing together high-concept science-fiction, pitch-black comedy, and a much softer rom-com side into an unlikely cocktail of satire, thriller, and romance. Still, it ended on a pretty dark cliffhanger (Nathan runs out of data on his data plan, which has significantly more dire consequences when you’re using it to do things like “move” or “think”) that we’d like to see resolved, so it’s nice to see that the show’s finally coming back.
Upload stars Amell and Allo, along with Allegra Edwards, Zainab Johnson, and Kevin Bigley. The series was created by Daniels, who’s also currently working on Space Force over at Netflix. (The second season of that weirdly dark, weirdly sentimental sci-fi satire, meanwhile, is supposed to debut on February 18.) He made headlines this week by announcing a whole slate of new shows with his old King Of The Hill partner Mike Judge; they’re currently working on a new animated series, Bad Crimes, starring Lauren Lapkus and Nicole Byer, and have floated the idea of a King Of The Hill reboot.
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This is such good news. This show became sort of a forgotten gem.
I remember the ending of the first season being a bit depressing.
Hopefully they can pull out of that nose dive quickly in the first new episode.
Funny how The good place was about how entire mankind was doomed, but Upload managed to bum me out way more.
I also remember it felt like the writers went out of their way to almost change the character’s motivations/behavior to make a more bleak ending. But maybe I’m misremembering. It’s been a while since I watched it.
This is a significantly better show than Space Force, so this is the one to get excited about. It’s definitely more Black Mirror than the trailers for it let on, though.
I’m pretty sure that the only people excited about it coming back are the ones who liked it to begin with, and that definitely includes me.I think it’s kind of got limited appeal, though. The Good Place meets Altered Carbon seems like it’s not going to be for everyone but it’s exactly the sort of thing that’s up my alley.
Awesome. I loved this show. Absolutely fell in love with Andy Allo. Looking forward to season two.
She really is adorable.
Andy Allo played guitar for PRINCE. The fact that she is in this complicated situational thing is an indictment of our society. Because this show is a lot about saying this one stupid white guy is amazing over and over. And that’s not where somebody as amazing as her should land. This show is about how amazing this square-jawed boring as fuck white guy is. That’s the show. Everybody goes fuck your grandma in the kitchen nuts for this boring white guy. That’s the show. It seemed like there could have been more to it.
You seem fun.
AVClub used to be the place you came to to learn that “high concept” generally means the opposite of what you might think but now, well, *gestures vaguely*
I guess this *could* be correct usage because I haven’t seen the show but . . . seems unlikely based on the description.
Oh. Umm…yeah, okay.
Love this show. Really looking forward to its return.
This is great , it was a decidedly good , if odd show , and I didnt think it was going to be renewed .
Really loved this show and can’t wait for its return. This season only being seven episodes isn’t a great sign, though.
Really looking forward to this. I wasn’t a Robbie Amell fan before, I guess since I had only seen him playing in essentially YA-type stories, and I’m getting old. He does a great job in Upload, though, in a more adult role. I was glad I gave S1 a shot, because it was one of the best new SF shows I’d seen in a long time. It has some similarities in theme to Downsizing, which was interesting, even if not a great movie.
Glad to see this is coming back! I enjoyed the first season quite a bit and was wondering if we were going to get a second.