Interview by Rafy Mediavilla, w/ Greg Daniels (Creator/Executive Producer) From Prime Video “Upload” S2, where we talked VR Headsets, the love story, & the pandemic effects on the story. #UploadTV #PrimeVideo
Upload is a sci-fi comedy series from Emmy Award-winning writer Greg Daniels (The Office, Parks and Recreation), set in a technologically advanced future where hologram phones, 3D food printers and automated grocery stores are the norm. Most uniquely, humans can choose to be “uploaded” into a virtual afterlife.
In Upload Season Two, Nathan is at a crossroads in his (after) life… his ex-girlfriend Ingrid has unexpectedly arrived to Lakeview hoping to strengthen their relationship, but his heart still secretly yearns for his customer service angel Nora. Meanwhile Nora is off the grid and involved with the anti-tech rebel group “The Ludds.” Season Two is packed with new near-future concepts, including Lakeview’s newest in-app digital baby program called, “prototykes,” and other satirical glimpses of the technological advances and headaches to come.
The series was created by Greg Daniels who also serves as executive producer along with Howard Klein. Series stars: Robbie Amell as “Nathan,” Andy Allo as “Nora,” Kevin Bigley as “Luke”, Allegra Edwards as “Ingrid,” Zainab Johnson as “Aleesha,” Owen Daniels as “A.I. Guy,” and Josh Banday as “Ivan,” and Andrea Rosen as “Lucy.”
Criticólogos:
This season feels more of a love story. Puppy love story. Was that something that you had in mind since the beginning, or did some plans change in the process?
Greg Daniels:
Well, I always looked at the show as being a romance story at its core, but it has a lot of other aspects. There’s a mystery, there’s science fiction, there’s comedy. But I think the spine of it is, is the love story. But in the first season, they don’t know each other, there is this several episodes where they haven’t met yet or they, you know, they haven’t taken up with each other. And I think it does play more maybe intensely as a love story in season two because they have connected and then circumstances have forced them apart. And we’ll see if they can, you know, get back together.
Criticólogos:
I think the pandemic added a new layer to the story or to the concept of Upload, was that something that you had in mind when coming into season 2, did it play a role that how the whole world changed?
Greg Daniels:
Yeah, to a certain extent, I think that they didn’t resonate with audiences because we were forced into a very virtual way of interacting with each other and the show’s themes and everything, it’s all about the difference between the real world and this virtual world. And, you know, a lot of the things that we brought up, we’re we’re trying to look only 15 years in the future. So as things pop up, they start to happen like exactly as it is in the show. And so, you know, the fact that there’s now this thing, the metaverse is very much about where we where we are anticipating in the show.
And, you know, so I think for season two, we’re definitely continuing with all of the stories of the different characters, and we’re trying to keep the mystery getting more intense and interesting. And and we’re trying to stay ahead of all the recent, you know, technology and involved new things that you haven’t seen before that we didn’t mention in season.
Criticólogos:
Do you have a VR headset & what game or app are you using?
Greg Daniels:
I just bought one of those eight being delivered today, and I’m looking forward to kind of using it more. But various other people, I mean, I have used it, you know, in demonstrations, and it tends to make me a little seasick. Oh, I’m hoping to get a little better at it.
Criticólogos:
What can they expect from the series and season one and two? What can they expect from the project?
Greg Daniels:
Well, you know, I think they can expect that it is something that gives you a glimpse of what life could be like in about 10 to 15 years. It’s and it’s made to be very intense with a sort of a Harry Potter, a feeling of mixing fantasy with humor. And but all around these very specific characters who seem like real people and are kind of likable and doing real things, and it’s a good most people that watch it tell me that they just inhale it and get right to the end and they find it to be very engaging, which is what the goal was.
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