Upload comes from The Office and Parks and Recreation co-creator Greg Daniels and is his first major sitcom effort since the latter (though the next one will come much quicker with Netflix’s Space Force arriving at the end of this month). The show is set in a “middle-topian” near future in which human consciousness can be “uploaded” into digital afterlives.
Robbie Amell stars as young app developer Nathan Brown who, after a deadly self-driving car accident, is uploaded into his girlfriend’s family’s plush afterlife neighborhood. There Nathan develops relationships with his fellow dead people and his office worker “angel,” Nora (Andy Allo). Of course, there is a mystery aspect as well, making Upload the rare romance-comedy-sci-fi-mystery hybrid.
