Upload (Amazon Prime scifi comedy TV series: trailer).
Comedy scifi is an odd beast and a hit and miss affair at the best of times, so will Amazon Prime’s new science fiction TV series, Upload, be any good?
Well, this one is from the mind of Greg Daniels (aka The Office, and Parks and Recreation).
In the near future, people who are close to death can be brain-scanned and uploaded into a virtual reality environment.
Cash-strapped Nora works customer service for the luxurious Lakeview digital afterlife. When party-boy/coder Nathan’s car crashes, his girlfriend uploads him into Nora’s VR world.
Arriving May 1st 2020, in theory. We say ‘in theory’, but of course, May 2020 is likely to be peak mega-death time for the pandemic in the USA and UK, and the idea of a VR afterlife may be seen as too sensitive a topic for viewers by then, we suspect.