'Upload' stars, creator break down the Season 2 finale's cliffhanger, Nathan and Nora's big moment, and that Jennifer Garner cameo.
“We’re always trying to do little, satiric comments about the future, and a lot of it is taking stuff that is today and just exaggerating a little bit,” creator Greg Daniels describes. “She seemed to think it was fun.” (Ingrid wasn’t entirely “good,” though, collecting a lock of Nathan’s hair from an old hairbrush at the end of the episode.) When Nathan offered to sleep on the floor, Nora told him that she wasn’t missing out on this. They pair plotted to steal Nathan’s body, with the help of the Ludds, so he could download and use his retina to pass the Freeyond security scan. But first, Ingrid was determined to put a baby in Nathan, who confessed that he didn’t want a child or a girlfriend.
From creator Greg Daniels (Parks and Recreation, The Office), the Amazon original sci-fi comedy series Upload, set in a technologically advanced future ...
I was like, “Greg, let me just celebrate this.” And he was like, “Yeah, try one.” And that ended up being the one. If I wasn’t on the show, I would watch it and be so pissed off that I wasn’t Nathan. I’m a huge fan of the actors that I work with, and the writers. So, I love that Nathan’s really trying to be there for her and finally works up the courage to be like, “I can’t do this anymore.” That’s really hard for him. AMELL: One of my favorite things is when the audience knows something that the characters don’t. I love that the audience finds out, pretty early, that she is hug suiting it, and I don’t find out until that baby prototyke scene, which is one of my favorite scenes to have filmed. AMELL: That was a nice moment where I was able to step back and look at the show, as a fan. With Nathan and Nora finally getting to reunite and reconnect, what was it like to actually have that moment? You can go, “Well, this feels a little odd,” or “This feels a little odd,” and you can make tiny adjustments, along the way. What was it like to pull the rug out from under everything you knew about him in the first season? It was such a great cliffhanger that it was tough to forget where I left off. He’s got some kind of crystal ball because a ton of stuff that he talks about in the show ends up coming to life. What was it like coming back to this virtual world, after experiencing such a hard pivot to virtual living during the pandemic? Was this a character that was pretty easy to find again?
The series follows recently deceased computer programmer Nathan Brown (Robbie Amell) as he attempts to navigate Lakeview, the digital afterlife space created by ...
When asked if he would himself would upload if digital afterlife technology existed, Daniels said yes, despite the dark consequences explored in his show — like the reveal that Nathan was murdered for attempting to develop an afterlife that poor people could access for free. The project fell to the back burner when “The Office” took off on NBC. But Daniels continued to consider the idea of uploading, and he realized he could find humor in his dystopia thanks to his Gen-Z children. You see the promise and the potential in all the tech.” That really helped make it more of a comedy.” “The nugget of the idea is that if you could technologically record people’s minds, and then reconstitute them in a metaverse where they live full-time, then you would basically be able to create heaven,” Daniels said. The premise first emerged to Daniels when he was coming up with sketches as a writer for “Saturday Night Live” in the late ‘80s, and he developed it further during the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike, intending it as a dramatic science fiction novel.
Upload, the sci-fi satire set in a world where one's consciousness can be uploaded into a digital afterlife is back for Season 2 on March 11, with deceased ...
Outside of Lakeview, we get to see more of the real world, where anti-tech types need Nora for a mission that could kill more than her future with Nathan. And that’s not the only mystery. Their stuff, both together and separately, is enough to sustain a spin-off should we be so lucky. There’s also some serious questions surrounding Ingrid’s demise, as well as the actual operations within Lakeview’s owners.
Addressing this shift, Robbie Amell, who plays Nathan Brown, exclusively told Digital Spy all about creator Greg Daniels' approach for the new season. "It took ...
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The hit Prime Video series might be a far-fetched look at the technological advances coming to our world ahead, but 'Upload' creator Greg Daniels and his ...