Upload Season 2 has some shocking twists for fans, even more surprising than the ones featured
in the Season 1 finale.
Nathan is in one hell of a pickle.
While it seems like things are coming up roses, in actuality, it seems like everything is
about to implode in spectacular fashion.
As humans continue their mission to cheat death, the line between the living and the
uploaded continues to become more of a blur.
As a result, sinister ideals and ideas are beginning to raise their heads, and it looks
like things are only going to get worse.
We know this is a comedy, but whoa, they deal with some pretty dark subject matter by the
time season two is over.
Death is literally only the start of people's troubles.
So what exactly happened in the seven episode season and what does the finale mean?
Here's a full breakdown of what happened and what that means for season three.
Lakeview.
It looks like our time in Lakeview, at least for now, is over, with Nathan being downloaded
into an experimental clone body and essentially being brought back to life.
(More on that in a bit.)
The Horizen company has become a little fast and loose with its terms and conditions this
season, using an update as a means to invade the privacy of their uploaded customers' lives.
You think you can pay for a full private upgrade?
That's simply overridden with a piece of code and a click of a button.
They even sell recordings of Lakeview residents' thoughts to the highest bidder, which is a
concern when they have sexual dreams about their unconsenting customer service 'angels'
like Aleesha (Zainab Johnson), who's effectively been (unintentionally) deepfaked into sexual
situations by the unsuspecting Luke (Kevin Bigley).
While he's doing that, it turns out he himself is getting his privacy invaded by Horizen
boss Lucy (Andrea Rosen) who has more than a little infatuation with the uploaded veteran
and is using her power within the company to see him at his most vulnerable.
It's all kinds of disgusting and way beyond the "played for laughs" obsession she had
back in season one.
Without Nathan's help, it's likely the treatment of the Lakeview uploads is only going to get
worse.
The Ludds.
Anti-tech group The Ludds are a new addition to season two, with the small rebellion picking
up steam as the episodes go on.
This is where we find Nora to begin with, after moving to their commune on the instructions
of her ailing father.
The Ludds have some pretty shady dealings themselves though, consisting of cyber breaches,
doxxing and hacking in order to invade and destroy Lakeview from the inside out.
While Nathan is AWOL, leader Mateo also starts dating Nora, who has become fundamental in
their plans to infiltrate the highly priced virtual afterlife.
In the end though, they definitely prove useful, as the true motivation behind uploading, and
Nathan's death, have major repercussions for the world as a whole.
Ingrid goes south.
Ingrid has always been pretty controlling of Nathan's life since he was uploaded via
her rich parents' Horizen account, giving him an allowance, dressing him, and even getting
a say on what he could and couldn't eat during his time there.
When he decided to leave her and go 2G – giving him extremely limited bandwidth in which to
live per month – she took things to the next level in the season-one finale by uploading
into Lakeview herself to be with him.
Only if.
she didn't actually quite do that.
She's just pretending she's uploaded in a bid to win him back, and is spending a vast
amount of her day in a scuba body suit which allows her to spend time in Lakeview's virtual
reality.
Getting more agitated at the thought of losing Nathan, she eventually gets even more possessive,
and begins an experimental process in order to essentially clone his body, with the idea
of downloading his consciousness back into human form.
But as it takes time to grow a human person, Ingrid is getting increasingly impatient,
trying to have children with Nathan in the virtual world to keep him on the hook and
threatening his position within Lakeview's world.
The Ludds eventually track down the facility to recover the new Nathan's body, and she
almost pulls the plug on him rather than hand him over.
Even though she gives in, in a seriously twisted moment in the season finale, she's seen grabbing
his hairbrush and pulling out hairs before storing them in a bag, suggesting Ingrid is
now going to try cloning him again.
None of this is done with Nathan's permission, and it is clear that she has become completely
obsessed with keeping him (despite the fact that he definitely wants nothing to do with
her and pretty much hasn't the entire time we've known him).
Who murdered Nathan?
This has been on everyone's mind for a while now, and it seems like the show is only getting
darker with this storyline.
Over the course of the season, Nathan and Nora (once they've reunited), try and figure
out the bigger picture surrounding Nathan's murder, and how it connects to his own version
of the afterlife, Beyond, which was in progress before his deadly car crash – which, it
turns out, wouldn't have actually killed him if he hadn't uploaded.
Turns out, it's for political gain.
With uploads not having the right to vote as their lives have technically ended, a sinister
company called Freeyond was putting dozens of clinics in swing states to allow the poor
and desperate to upload into a new life – and away from voting booths.
If they succeed, it means that hundreds of key votes will keep certain political juggernauts
in power.
The cliffhanger.
Tracking down the cloning facility, The Ludds succeed in getting hold of Nathan's clone
body, and despite the treatment being highly experimental, with a severely low success
rate, Nathan agrees to be downloaded anyway if it means he can stop the corruption involved
in Freeyond.
By low success rate, we mean ridiculously low.
We saw one guy in season one try the treatment only to see his head explode on live TV when
it rejected.
Even Nathan acknowledges the treatment has worked on a select number of pigeons, but
that's it.
It seems like a very, very risky shot.
Miraculously, the download does seem to work, and the newly restored Nathan finally gets
to meet and kiss (and other stuff) Nora, which upsets Ingrid as he "doesn't look at her the
way he looks at Nora".
Nathan gives her a farewell kiss on the head, and Ingrid seemingly gives her blessing before
the whole new clone plan kicks in.
Heading off on a train with the Ludds, it seems the team are finally on their way to
stopping Freeyond and his sinister corporate team.
But as he wakes up the next morning, Nathan realises his nose is bleeding, suggesting
the download is rejecting after all, and he may have had 24 hours before he's killed off
for real.
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