Death comes with a customer-service desk in Upload, a 2020 American series that folds comedy, mystery and science fiction into half-hour episodes about a digital afterlife and the people employed to keep it running.
What is Upload about?
The year is 2033. Anyone close to dying can choose to be "uploaded": moved, mind intact, into a virtual-reality hotel, one of several operated by six technology companies. Lakeview sits at the luxurious end of that market. Nora lives in Brooklyn, is short of money, and works Lakeview's customer-service line, looking after residents from the living side of the screen. Nathan is a Los Angeles coder with a party-boy reputation. After his self-driving car crashes, his high-maintenance girlfriend has him uploaded permanently, and the place he wakes up in is the virtual world Nora is paid to manage. The series follows the two of them from there, one alive and one not, each learning how the other's world works.
About the cast
Robbie Amell, Andy Allo, Allegra Edwards and Zainab Johnson lead the cast. The show leans on a small central group rather than a sprawling ensemble, which suits a story built around conversations between the living and the uploaded, and around the gap between people who can afford Lakeview and those who work for it.
Context & significance
Upload is listed under three genres at once, and each of them shows in the premise. The comedy comes from treating the afterlife as a commercial product, with tech firms, service staff and premium tiers of comfort. The science fiction is close to home: self-driving cars, virtual reality and corporate platforms are all familiar ideas pushed a little more than a decade forward from the show's 2020 release. The mystery label points to questions hanging over Nathan's situation that the story takes its time with. Episodes run about 30 minutes, so the series moves quickly and is easy to watch in short sittings. On K-Time it is available with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles.
Watching Upload on Ktime
Upload streams on K-Time for viewers signed in to a K-Time account; this page itself is free to read. The service is built for Persian-speaking audiences abroad, with a Farsi interface, and this title can be played either dubbed into Persian or in the original audio with Persian subtitles.