Review of the first four episodse of Upload, the Amazon series

This is the new Greg Daniels limited series on Amazon, only eight episodes for the first season.

The closest show to it is The Good Place by Michael Schur. This too is about the afterlife, ponderings upon existence, and the nature of reality. Do we live in a simulation? What if we do? What if this is 'real', and we end up in a simulation. What does it mean to live, and to die, and why might we not want to make immortality a reality.

As a amateur cognitive scientist, it's my sworn duty to inform you that this is not real, consciousness upload will never ever ever become a thing, and even if it does somehow against all the chances, it's going to be extremely expensive to get even a small fraction of fidelity of real life, and you won't be able to just 'fake' it. One will have to simulate the entire goddamn world, or a good chunk of it just to put consciousness uploads into it, until somebody realizes there's no value in doing it and shuts the machines down because there's much much easier and cheaper way to create life-forms, who'll actually care about change and innovation and not want things to remain the same as they were 'back in the good old days' for all eternity. Immortality is bad because it resists change, change and innovation comes from destruction of old human ideas and institutions. A society where immortality 'is a thing' is one that gets stuck in time for all eternity.

The series is good, if you enjoyed the good place this one is well worth the watch. It's a bit quirkier than the Schur show, a bit more...dystopian, but not enough to gross one out. This is most certainly not in The Office spirit, but it would have been ridiculous if that had been the case.

The lead actress, oof how I'm in love with her, I may not be able to watch the rest of the series because of the strong feels she gives me. And her Korean roommate in Queens who she shares a studio apartment with, she's cute and charming as a button as well. The male performers would probably be considered attractive as well, though the lead guy, don't know his name but he's the one who dies and gets uploaded into a simulation of reality where you have to pay big bucks to get computational power for your brain, he'd probably be considered a decently attractive dude as well but he plays a jackasshole which I cannot stand.

Just watch it. Skip around if things get slow, but the world is rich and interesting, the characters colorful and round, and the aurafuturistic, it's unlikely you'll be bored.