I got another advertising email from Amazon Prime yesterday. And they had some interesting options. So I had a peek at Upload, a comedy sci-fi series about a world, not too far in the future, where people's memories, personalities etc. can be uploaded to a program they subscribe to, so that they can have - essentially - the afterlife of their choice, which they can experience as themselves, in simulated bodies.
To recap, we follow the story of a young man (Robbie Amell, doing a good impression of a young Tom Cruise), whose life is cut tragically short in a freak accident. However, he doesn't die straight away - and his high-maintenance, upper-crust girlfriend has a pretty high-class subscription to the upload service, where all her family plan to spend the afterlife. So she badgers him into being uploaded, on her subscription, so they can (eventually) spend the afterlife together, in genteel luxury.
Well, in Episodes 4 & 5, more questions are posed about his untimely death, as they tease us with snippets of information. And the plot thickens. But they're drip-feeding us that slowly - in the meantime, we have a burgeoning relationship between our hero and his "care angel" - one of the humans that are there to help uploads, 24-7. And plenty more geeky jokes. Like when a few uploads nip outside the resort briefly (into the Dark Web), and one comes back with a purchase that isn't quite what he expected..! Also a scene to watch out for is the one where our hero's girlfriend finally opts for a "sex suit" so they can be intimate again, in VR..
On Saturday - Meetup, for once! The first in over a month.. I'm finally joining 45+ Not Grumpy Old Londoners, for a Swinging 60s Experience - a Live Online Interactive Tour in a Psychedelic Minibus! Also running with their sister group, Carpe Diem. Their last event that I attended was terrifically organised, and I'm sure this one will be, too - it's great to see a group running something during the daytime at the weekend, again!
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