Upload 

is an American science fiction comedy-drama television series created by Greg Daniels.

[1]
 The series premiered on May 1, 2020, on Amazon Prime Video and was renewed for a second
season.[2] The second season premiered on March 11, 2022; it had seven episodes, three fewer than
the first.[3] In May 2022, the series was renewed for a third season.[4]

Premise[edit]
In 2033, humans can "upload" themselves into a virtual afterlife of their choosing. When computer
programmer Nathan Brown dies prematurely, he is uploaded to the very expensive Lakeview, but
then finds himself under the thumb of his possessive, still-living girlfriend Ingrid. As Nathan adjusts to
the pros and cons of digital heaven, he bonds with Nora, his living customer service rep. Nora
struggles with the pressures of her job, her dying father who does not want to be uploaded, and her
growing feelings for Nathan while slowly coming to believe that Nathan was murdered.

Cast and characters[edit]

Main[edit]
 Robbie Amell as Nathan Brown, a 27-year-old computer engineering grad and newly
deceased computer programmer who is uploaded to the digital afterlife Lakeview.
 Andy Allo as Nora Antony, a living woman who is Nathan's handler in his afterlife
 Allegra Edwards as Ingrid Kannerman, Nathan's materialistic, obsessive girlfriend
 Zainab Johnson as Aleesha, Nora's coworker who is Luke's handler
 Kevin Bigley as Luke, a former army corporal and Lakeview resident who befriends
Nathan and is dating Mildred
 Josh Banday as Ivan (season 2; recurring season 1), Nora's coworker[5]
Recurring[edit]
 Jordan Johnson-Hinds as Jamie, Nathan's best friend and business partner
 Chris Williams as Dave Antony, Nora's father
 Christine Ko as Mandi, Nora's roommate
 Jessica Tuck as Viv, Nathan's mother
 Philip Granger as Uncle Larry, Viv's brother and Nathan's favorite uncle
 William B. Davis as David Choak, a wealthy man living across the hall from Nathan
 Elizabeth Bowen as Fran Booth, Nathan's awkward cousin who is investigating his car
accident
 Andy Thompson as Lionel Winters (identified only as the Professor in season 1)
 Chloe Coleman as Nevaeh, Nathan's niece
 Julian Christopher as Ernie, a Horizen therapist whose avatar in Lakeview is a Labrador
retriever
 Rhys Slack as Dylan, a child who lives in Lakeview after falling into the Grand
Canyon and is trapped in the form of a 12-year-old despite being uploaded six years
prior
 Matt Ward as Byron, Nora's casual sex partner
 Barclay Hope as Oliver Kannerman, Ingrid's father
 Yvetta Fisher as Batia, Nora's coworker
 Megan Ferguson (pilot), Hilary Jardine (season 1), and Vic Michaelis (season 2) as
Mildred, Ingrid's centenarian grandmother who resides in Lakeview, and whose avatar
was based on an old black and white photograph
  Scott Patey as Josh Pitzer, an executive hoping to buy Nathan's and Jamie's software
 Paulo Costanzo as Matteo (season 2)[6]
 Mackenzie Cardwell as Tinsley, a temp hired by Aleesha (season 2)[7]
 Owen Daniels as A.I. Guy, a virtual employee at Lakeview who can appear in many
places at once; also later as Boris Netherlands, an unemployed actor who was paid for
his likeness to be used in Lakeview
 Andrea Rosen as Lucy, Nora and Aleesha's domineering boss
Guest[edit]
 Justin Stone as Dan the Orbit Gum Guy
 Philip Granger as Uncle Larry
 Phoebe Miu as Yang
 Brea St. James as Older (female) Dylan
 Peter James Smith as Mauricio, a digital afterlife salesman
 Lucas Wyka as Jack Kannerman
 Matt Braunger as Brad
 Wayne Wilderson as Zach
 Creed Bratton as Rupert Tilford
 Larry Wilmore as Mr. Whitbridge
 Gigi Gorgeous as Jordan
 Jennifer Garner as Officer Jennifer Garner [8]
 Hiro Kanagawa as Detective Sato

Episodes[edit]
Series overview[edit]
Seaso
Episodes Originally released
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1 10 May 1, 2020

2 7 March 11, 2022

Season 1 (2020)[edit]
No. No. in
Title Directed by Writte
overall season

1 1 "Welcome to Upload" Greg Daniels Greg D

One night while on his way home from picking up groceries, Nathan Brown's self-driving car malfunctions and crash
While in the hospital with his vitals rapidly dropping, his wealthy girlfriend Ingrid Kannerman suggests his consciousn
still be together. Nathan hastily agrees and goes through the uploading process. At first everything seems fine and N
until he realizes the many restrictions involved. Nathan is ready to end it all by jumping into a torrent stream and com
Nora Antony, his human handler who helps him cope with this new life. As she leaves her desk at the end of her shi
memory file of Nathan's remotely opens and certain files are deleted.

2 2 "Five Stars" Greg Daniels Greg D

Having to take therapy because he tried "killing" himself, Nathan is introduced to his therapist Ernie, whose avatar is
Nathan with meeting five new Uploads and learning more about them. In the real world, Nora is working to get an em
her dying father uploaded when he dies. Nora's boss refuses to sign the discount paperwork unless Nora gets a 4.8
end of her shift. Nathan meets David Choak, his wealthy neighbor, who suggests that Nathan might have been murd
alternative to Lake View which would have threatened a multi-billion dollar industry. Nathan's cousin Fran is investig
was tampered with because it is unable to give proper information about the crash. Nathan overhears that Nora nee
rating and out of kindness gives her multiple five star ratings. Nora is also able to fix one of Nathan's corrupt memor
deal he was preparing before his death.

Jonathan van
3 3 "The Funeral" Mary G
Tulleken

Nathan prepares for his funeral happening in the real world, assuming a lot of people will be there. Before the funera
Rupert Tilford, a man who won the chance to be "downloaded" into a clone body. The process works for a few mom
bleeding and he expresses discomfort before his head explodes. Nathan attends his funeral with Luke, a fellow Uplo
grandmother and also resides in Lakeview. Nora attends his funeral in New York and meets three former girlfriends
about her connection to him. Fran questions Ingrid about the accident, not believing Nathan died prematurely and N
money given to his surviving family from his unfinished software deal. He's also disheartened by Ingrid's speech as
Rupert's, and his best friends leave during the funeral ceremony. Nathan is informed by Fran that she's investigating
car company because of shady details behind the accident. Nora finds out that Nathan's business deal never went t
man in Nathan's software, she is denied any information.

Jonathan van
4 4 "The Sex Suit" Aasia Lash
Tulleken

Nathan learns about the various plans of Lakeview's world, and sees what is included for those that pay the least. H
interested in getting money for upgrades than providing an equal opportunity experience for all residents. During a V
between Nathan and Ingrid stemming from Nathan's belief that Ingrid no longer loves him as she refuses to use a V
and Nora's friendship becomes closer, with Nathan feeling he can relate to her more than Ingrid. Ingrid unexpectedl
prepares to have sex with him, only to discover he can't get an erection. Nora is called in to assist, much to Nathan's
about the awkward situation, but gets an erection from Nora while Ingrid is distracted by her cat in real life. Fran con
accident, and upon viewing surveillance footage from the grocery store, discovers that Ingrid went to Nathan's car w
her lack of intimacy, reinstalls a dating app and is paired up with Byron, who she previously met on the same app us
sex with him, she pictures her earlier encounter with Nathan.

5 5 "The Grey Market" Kacie Anning Mike La

Dylan is frustrated that his family, except for his mother, have pretty much forgotten about him and moved on with th
in a child's body six years after his upload. Nathan and Ingrid take part in couple's therapy, each bringing their respe
they feel they're becoming disconnected. Nathan feels that he doesn't have much of his own life, since it's all contro
reveals Fran's information that he wasn't actually dying before being uploaded. When Nora has to leave Dylan to se
offers to watch him. Luke convinces him to visit the Grey Market, a virtual equivalent of a black market, in order to b
living people. While there, Nathan buys a hack into his former business partner Jaime's phone while Dylan abscond
he can appear as an older person. Upon returning to Lakeview, Dylan discovers his upgrade gave him the body of a
reprograms to his former body. Fran is in her self-driving vehicle on her way to see Josh Pitzer, when her car malfun
pier.

6 6 "The Sleepover" Kacie Anning Shepard

Nathan is informed by his niece Nevaeh that she's having a sleepover with Ingrid as well as Fran's disappearance. N
to get to know Byron more, who's alive, instead of focusing on Nathan who's dead. Nathan is becoming bored being
every chance he can get to spend time with Nora. Luke is causing problems for Aleesha by exploiting bugs in the sy
without paying for them. During their date, Nora finds out some interesting things about Byron, including that he likes
do their best, regardless of the situation. During dinner with her family with Nevaeh present, Ingrid dislikes the way t
because they come from humble means, eventually kicking everyone out. Nora's date with Byron goes awry when h
spends that rest of the evening talking to Nathan, even letting him know that she agrees his death wasn't an acciden
awoken by Aleesha.

"Bring Your Dad to Work

7 7 David Rogers Owen D
Day"

Nora is exposed by her boss Lucy about her overnight excursion in Lakeview with Nathan, and threatened with losin
continue to pursue a close relationship. Ingrid attends a support group and says she's thinking of "freezing" Nathan
Nora sees a news report about the death of Josh Pitzer and suspects that someone is trying to cover up anything to
"Beyond". Nora has Nathan give her father a tour of Lakeview, hoping he'll choose to be uploaded once he dies. A f
the data servers for Lakeview and plants a bomb inside, while Nora uses her boss Lucy's computer to find out what
regards to Josh's death and Nathan's damaged memories. She finds that an unknown employee has access to Nath
the bomb goes off and shuts down all affected computers. The computers come back on and she searches the glob
unknown employee ID, finding no results. Even after a successful tour with Nathan, Nora's father decides not to go a
he dies, instead maintaining his beliefs that he will be reunited with his wife in heaven.

"Shopping Other Digital After- Alex Sherma

8 8 Jeffrey Blitz
Lives" Lan
Lucy informs Nora that she's being suspended because of her constant hanging out with Nathan, which goes agains
his feelings for Nora but is not aware that Lucy has taken control of Nora's avatar and she rejects him. Dejected, Na
a different afterlife that his family can afford. Aleesha informs Nora of Nathan leaving Lakeview. Fearing that he's in
and meets up with Ingrid who was unaware of Nathan's plans. While Ingrid is on the phone, Nora finds a box of Nath
them. Nathan ends up deciding to stay in Lakeview but when they leave the agency, an unknown assailant grabs th
downloaded to and tosses it into the water to destroy him. Nora reveals to Nathan's mother that she noticed the guy
drive while making sure Nathan's drive was with her.

9 9 "Update Eve" Daina Reid Greg D

Everyone including Lakeview residents and Horizen employees prepare for a new upgrade for Lakeview. Nathan de
keeps pressuring Nora to admit her feelings for Nathan, which would enable Lucy to fire her, but Nora denies it. Nat
avoiding his calls because he felt ashamed for sleeping with Ingrid; he forgives Jaime and gets him to loan him enou
Gig", the lowest class of residents (who only have 2 gigabyte of data volume each month). Nathan pressures Ingrid
death but she remains mum. Later, she confronts her father and tells him that she programmed Nathan's car to prio
to survive the crash long enough to upload. After learning from IT that Uploads who are asleep during the upgrade w
Nora convinces Nathan to stay awake in order to find out the truth, even if he might forget anything that has happen
Nathan a program she stole from an IT guy which allows him to see and manipulate Lakeview's code on the fly.

10 10 "Freeyond" Daina Reid Greg D

Nathan wakes up from the update, with his missing memories restored. One of the images shows that Ingrid's fathe
in buying Nathan and Jamie's software, but rather than going with a rich company, they went with Josh Pitzer and h
Ingrid's father in private and gave him a copy of the software without Jamie's knowledge to get more money and sup
bypass Nathan's upgrade and it appears he has forgotten ever knowing her, much to her dismay. Nathan later confi
everything but felt he could not face her, knowing he was the bad guy. Nathan moves to the 2 Gig room and calls No
the assailant who tried to destroy Nathan's hard drive breaks into her apartment and tries to kill her, prompting her to
Nora, Nathan manages to help Nora escape. He traps the attacker in an elevator and uses it to kill him. Nora speaks
and she have found, and he suggests that she hide off the grid until they can figure out who is responsible for Natha
feelings for Nathan, but he can't respond since his data has been used up. Nora heads away with Byron as Ingrid co
tell him that she's uploaded herself so they can finally be together forever. He gets so upset that his one word respo
1GB of data she gave him, prompting Ingrid to call for tech support as the last light in the room flickers out.

Season 2 (2022)[edit]
No. No. in
Title Directed by Written
overall season

"Welcome Back, Mr.

11 1 Dee Rees Izzy Kad
Brown"
Nora's father brings her to the woods to live with the Ludds, a group of technic-sceptic anarchists who despise the fa
technological advances where she meets Matteo. Meanwhile, Nathan tries to find Nora but has no luck. He reluctan
out with her as he feels guilty that she uploaded just for him. It is revealed that Ingrid faked uploading and instead us
them using a cat avatar and thinks Nathan is over her. The episode ends with Nathan leaving Nora a mailbox messa

12 2 "Dinner Party" Jeffrey Blitz Lauren Hous

Ingrid hosts a dinner party with some of her friends but Nathan invites Luke and his 2gig friend Yang to attend as we
she requests angels to help out, forcing Aleesha and her temp Tinsley to cater her. Tinsley uses Nora's old avatar a
reigniting Nathan's hopes that she returned. Nora meets Boris Netherlands, the actor whose likeness was used to c
likeness to create a fake-servant avatar to enter Lakeview unnoticed. Nathan bonds with Tinsley after she reveals h

Maxwell The
13 3 "Robin Hood" Jeffrey Blitz
Vivian

Nathan and Luke use the penknife they stole before to siphon bandwidth from wealthy residents and giving it to the
to help them win at a high-stakes Poker game by manipulating the cards using the device. Nora fake-interviews for a
access the coding floor and scatter ring drives with malware in hopes that someone will plug them into a computer to
hears that the coders have found the penknife and Nathan is forced to discard it, she helps Ingrid win her match aga
bug-fixer after giving an impassioned speech on the virtues of Lakeview.