Check out the review for UploadTV starring Robbie Amell on Amazon Prime Video
, follows in a robust recent tradition of shows using the tools of science fiction to tell a fairly elemental story. This one is about a person “uploaded” into a digital heaven but finding that his problems only multiply once there, looks, if you squint, a bit like other recent shows in which our protagonists are dead and ambivalent about it.
For all that “Upload” uses a setting — an afterlife whose pleasures come at a cost — that by now we know can bear fruit and generate intrigue, the only thing on the show’s mind seems to be keeping its story going. The most meaningful ambiguities come in the form of mystery around the story of Nathan , a fellow who seems to have been murdered for reasons whose obscurity doesn’t make them more compelling.
Around them plays out a world too often feels rushed or simply gross. Consider the case of a foul-mouthed young lad, dead and uploaded, who seeks to grow out of stasis and ends up, for convoluted and uninteresting reasons, growing breasts. It’s an opportunity for a non-funny sight gag but also a sidestepping of the show’s implications.
Similarly, Nathan and Nora’s story — so potentially rich in thorny questions and built around an impossible dynamic — never gets off the ground at all. The strangeness of their situation might have, under other circumstances, prompted the show to work hard to sell their pairing, but neither Amell’s performance nor the writing of Nathan help open up that relationship or the world around it.
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