It’s a blend of Altered Carbon and Defending Your Life except it doesn’t look anything like that at all. In Amazon Prime’s new series Upload, the afterlife is hell, or close to it, because it’s gone digital. And if you want to have a good afterlife you better be rich, because otherwise you risk weeks a month without service. Like Altered Carbon, your memory becomes uploaded after your body dies and like Defending Your Life you get some help, not via heaven’s legal counsel as revealed in that film, but by customer service agents standing by to help via virtual reality. But it’s the chemistry of the story’s two lead characters that is touted as the reason viewers will come back after the first episode.
