The essential episodes of Upload
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Upload — each pick states its reason.
- 01
After a self-driving car crash, Nathan is uploaded to Lakeview, his girlfriend’s family’s digital after-life, where he meets his customer service rep, Nora.
- 02
Nora 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 Lakeview therapist.
- 03
Scientists attempt to download a consciousness back into a clone body. Nathan attends his own funeral and Nora uncovers a mystery surrounding his death.
- 04
Nora thinks she may have misjudged Nathan. Nathan and his girlfriend Ingrid are interviewed about the challenges of romance between a living person and an Upload.
- 05
Nora’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 hacker’s market in cyberspace.
- 06
Nathan is thrown when Nora goes on a Nitely date. Ingrid invites Nathan’s niece for a sleepover. Nathan and Nora suspect his damaged memories may lead to a greater conspiracy. Luke gets into a fight with Aleesha.
- 07
Nathan 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 Lucy’s computer in the confusion.
- 08
Shopping Other Digital After-Lives
After a surprising revelation, Nathan shops for a new digital after-life. Nora travels to LA to help Ingrid stop him from leaving Lakeview.
- 09
The 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.
- 10
Nathan’s restored memories and shifting emotional allegiances put Nora in physical danger.
- 11
Nathan 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.
- 12
Nora rallies the support of unlikely allies and Hyperloops to LA. Meanwhile, the issues in Nathan's personal life come to a head.
- 13
Nora takes the powerful Upload companies to court, but she may have bitten off more than she can chew.
- 14
One Nathan celebrates a bitter-sweet wedding, but things are not what they seem and questions of sanity and religious faith are raised. A lonely AI Guy searches for romance. Aleesha prepares for her new responsibilities while Luke agonizes over their kiss back in Lakeview.
- 15
The residents of Lakeview race to find justice, revenge and peace as the digital and real worlds collide.
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