Upload (2020–2025)

Upload posterReview score: 77%

Plot

Upload is a sci-fi sitcom that takes place in the near future, where people who are near death can be "uploaded" into a virtual afterlife of their choice. In 2033, secretly romantic Brooklyn-born Nora works customer service for a luxurious virtual reality environment. When handsome L.A. party boy Nathan's self-driving car crashes, his high-maintenance girlfriend uploads him permanently into Nora's VR world. Nora starts as Nathan's customer service "angel", but becomes so much more as she helps him find friendship, love and purpose.

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Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Upload S01E09Update EveS01E09 · 7.7The Uploads are looking forward to the improvements in the new Lakeview Operating System. Nathan and Nora stay up late to recover Nathan’s missing memories.
  2. 02Upload S01E10FreeyondS01E10 · 7.7Nathan’s restored memories and shifting emotional allegiances put Nora in physical danger.
  3. 03Upload S02E05Mind FriskS02E05 · 7.6Nathan and Nora race to stop a potentially dangerous technological advance. Luke boycotts sleep when he finds Horizen is profiting from his dreams, as Aleesha continues to rise in the Horizen hierarchy. Ingrid is tempted by a new tech offering: digital babies.

Episodes by season

Season01Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode10Episodes2020Aired 7.6Season avg
  1. S01E01Upload S01E01Welcome to UploadApril 30, 2020 7.5After a self-driving car crash, Nathan is uploaded to Lakeview, his girlfriend’s family’s digital after-life, where he meets his customer se
  2. S01E02Upload S01E02Five StarsApril 30, 2020 7.6Nora tries to get her ratings up, so her boss will approve her dad’s upload loan. Nathan acclimates to his new world with the help of a Lake
  3. S01E03Upload S01E03The FuneralApril 30, 2020 7.5Scientists attempt to download a consciousness back into a clone body. Nathan attends his own funeral and Nora uncovers a mystery surroundin
  4. S01E04Upload S01E04The Sex SuitApril 30, 2020 7.6Nora thinks she may have misjudged Nathan. Nathan and his girlfriend Ingrid are interviewed about the challenges of romance between a living
  5. S01E05Upload S01E05The Grey MarketApril 30, 2020 7.6Nora’s Dad’s vape lung worsens while Nathan, his friend Luke, and Dylan, an uploaded teen whose body is not keeping up with his age, visit a
  6. S01E06Upload S01E06The SleepoverApril 30, 2020 7.4Nathan is thrown when Nora goes on a Nitely date. Ingrid invites Nathan’s niece for a sleepover. Nathan and Nora suspect his damaged memorie
  7. S01E07Upload S01E07Bring Your Dad to Work DayApril 30, 2020 7.4Nathan takes Nora’s dad on a do-or-die upload decision tour, but things go awry when Luddites sabotage Lakeview. Nora does some sleuthing on
  8. S01E08Upload S01E08Shopping Other Digital After-LivesApril 30, 2020 7.6After a surprising revelation, Nathan shops for a new digital after-life. Nora travels to LA to help Ingrid stop him from leaving Lakeview.
  9. S01E09Upload S01E09Season's bestUpdate EveApril 30, 2020 7.7The Uploads are looking forward to the improvements in the new Lakeview Operating System. Nathan and Nora stay up late to recover Nathan’s m
  10. S01E10Upload S01E10FreeyondApril 30, 2020 7.7Nathan’s restored memories and shifting emotional allegiances put Nora in physical danger.

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode7Episodes2022Aired 7.2Season avg
  1. S02E01Upload S02E01Welcome Back, Mr. BrownMarch 10, 2022 7.0While living with Ingrid, Nathan searches for Nora, who has fled off the grid.
  2. S02E02Upload S02E02Dinner PartyMarch 10, 2022 7.3At a status-obsessed dinner, Nathan faces ghosts from his past. Nora flexes her programming skills as she steps into activism.
  3. S02E03Upload S02E03Robin HoodMarch 10, 2022 7.0Frustrated with the inequities at Lakeview, Nathan and Luke decide to redistribute some wealth with Ingrid's unwitting help. Nora undertakes
  4. S02E04Upload S02E04Family DayMarch 10, 2022 7.1Nora's loyalties are stressed as she is called upon to take revolutionary action. Nathan's visiting family prompts him to consider what he w
  5. S02E05Upload S02E05Season's bestMind FriskMarch 10, 2022 7.6Nathan and Nora race to stop a potentially dangerous technological advance. Luke boycotts sleep when he finds Horizen is profiting from his
  6. S02E06Upload S02E06The OutingMarch 10, 2022 7.2Nora and Aleesha pursue the mystery into New York City with Nathan and Luke along on screens. Ingrid receives unexpected visitors.
  7. S02E07Upload S02E07DownloadMarch 10, 2022 7.4Nora rallies the support of unlikely allies and Hyperloops to LA. Meanwhile, the issues in Nathan's personal life come to a head.

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode8Episodes2023Aired 6.6Season avg
  1. S03E01Upload S03E01Ticking ClockOctober 19, 2023 6.7Nora and a recently downloaded Nathan race to stop Freeyond before his head explodes.
  2. S03E02Upload S03E02StrawberryOctober 19, 2023 6.3Nathan and Nora struggle to make their relationship work, while Ingrid tries to make the best of her second shot at love.
  3. S03E03Upload S03E03CyberDiscountDayOctober 26, 2023 6.6The gang celebrates CyberDiscountDay while Nora discovers something game-changing: Nathan has been copied in Lakeview.
  4. S03E04Upload S03E04Download DoctorOctober 26, 2023 6.5Nathan and Nora track down the doctor who invented download, while Aleesha rises higher in the Horizen hierarchy. Ingrid and back-up Nathan
  5. S03E05Upload S03E05Rescue MissionNovember 2, 2023 6.7Nathan teams up with his own copy to save Luke, but Nora is discovered by the conspiracy.
  6. S03E06Upload S03E06Memory CrackersNovember 2, 2023 6.6Nora and Nathan find important clues to expose Freeyond, but the search poses a challenge to their relationship.
  7. S03E07Upload S03E07Upload DayNovember 9, 2023 6.6Nathan and Nora try to have a special last day together.
  8. S03E08Upload S03E08Season's bestFlesh and BloodNovember 9, 2023 7.1Nora takes the powerful Upload companies to court, but she may have bitten off more than she can chew.

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season04Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode4Episodes2025Aired 6.3Season avg
  1. S04E01Upload S04E01Season's bestWedding WeekendAugust 25, 2025 6.6One Nathan celebrates a bitter-sweet wedding, but things are not what they seem and questions of sanity and religious faith are raised. A lo
  2. S04E02Upload S04E02WorkloadAugust 25, 2025 6.2The bride and groom save up for their honeymoon. Horizen-Betta debuts a new, money-making technology. Luke tries to enjoy his job at Workloa
  3. S04E03Upload S04E03Spa DayAugust 25, 2025 6.2While on their honeymoon, the newlyweds uncover a dark secret. Luke and the AI Gardener head back into the Grey Zone on a rescue mission. Al
  4. S04E04Upload S04E04Mile EndAugust 25, 2025 6.4The residents of Lakeview race to find justice, revenge and peace as the digital and real worlds collide.

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

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