Exclusive: When the final season of 'Upload' premieres on Amazon
Your "Upload" is almost done.
The fourth and final season of Amazon's quirky-yet-depressing sci-fi comedy will premiere in full on August 25 on Amazon Prime Video, Paste BN can exclusively reveal. The four-part final season once and for all reveals whether the love between Nathan (Robbie Amell) and Nora (Andy Allo) can conquer all: Evil billionaires, rogue AI, digital clones, and even death.
"Love conquering death is always the theme of a good romance," says series creator Greg Daniels, the writer responsible for some of your favorite, if less tech-y, sitcoms including "The Office" and "King of the Hill." "I feel good about giving (the characters) an ending," he adds.
But what kind of ending, exactly? A happy one seems so far away for the characters after the tumultuous journey they have been on over the last three seasons. The series takes place in a near-future world in which people can "upload" themselves to expensive digital heavens at the point of death. It has followed digital upload Nathan's romance with Nora, an employee at the upload company, as they both try to right the wrongs of the corporate world they live in. They even managed to get Nathan "downloaded" back into a clone body, which resulted in the creation of a digital Nathan replica in the cyber-afterlife.
Season 3 ended on a major cliffhanger: Both the original Nathan and his replica were captured by evil tech billionaires, and only one of them survived. But which one was it? The downloaded Nathan who loves Nora, or the replica with a limited memory who was still in love with ex Ingrid (Allegra Edwards)? And what does that mean for all the other characters, living or uploaded? In these first-look images, we see whichever Nathan survived walking down the aisle with his mother (Jessica Tuck) and niece Nevaeh (Chloe Coleman). Who's getting married?
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Daniels won't spoil the final episodes, which he describes as "like a nice long movie" told in four roughly half-hour installments. He did drop some broad hints about what fans can expect, including "a longevity medical spa for billionaires that is satiric about all the the tech guys' attempts to live forever." Fans will also see a different digital heaven than the New England fall-style Lakeview that has been the setting for most of the series. "We go to Apple Cove and see what another upload is like."
Like all the pixelated people in the digital afterlives, "Upload" lives forever on Amazon Prime Video (or at least, until it's no longer profitable for Amazon to keep streaming it), and he hopes people keep finding it, especially while it's still predicting the dystopian future rather than when we're living in it.
"Right now we're ahead of the curve on a lot of things," he says of the "Upload" world, which imagines a future full of self-driving cars, corporate mergers and an ever-more commercialized day-to-day life. "There's so many things that we put in the show that are coming true. The design of (self-driving car) Waymos looks exactly like the self-driving cars that we had driving all around in the background.
"I feel like it might age quite well for a lot of people," he adds, noting it's modern life that inspires everything he's working on at the moment, from "Upload" to the new "The Office" spinoff "The Paper."
"A lot of the stuff that I'm working on has the same villain: It's the tech companies."