Upload Season 2's open questions will not be left unanswered, as the series got picked
up for a third season at Prime Video.
The sitcom imagines a near future where people can pay for eternity by uploading a copy of
their conscience into an ultra capitalistic digital afterlife.
Developed by The Office and Parks and Recreation creator Greg Daniels, Upload follows the tragic
story of the young app developer Nathan Brown (Robbie Amell), who gets uploaded into a luxurious
afterlife thanks to his shallow yet wealthy girlfriend named Ingrid (Allegra Edwards).
Season 1 of the sitcom presented the dystopic afterlife where you need to pay to keep on
living, while new ads and useless products keep getting introduced to the simulation
to force you to keep spending.
The first season also introduced Nora (Andy Allo), a fancy customer service representative
called “angel” inside the hellish afterlife.
Nathan and Nora quickly fall for each other but can’t get together due to the material
limitations of Nathan’s condition.
While Season 1 of Upload introduces the concept of a digital afterlife, Season 2 expands on
the idea while also allowing Nathan and Nora to move forward with their romance.
In the season finale, Nathan even downloads his conscience into a clone, only to find
out he might die in the process.
For real this time.
So, while the series already gave us many good laughs, it’s evident from Season 2’s
cliffhanger that Daniels has a lot to explore before wrapping Nathan’s and Nora’s story.
So, it’s great that Prime Video keeps believing in Upload’s unique concept.
Upload season 3 plot: What’s going to happen in Upload season 3?
Like we've said before, season two of Upload ends on a hell of a cliffhanger when Nathan
is downloaded into a clone body grown on Ingrid's instructions.
In a desperate bid to keep him, and realising she couldn't continue living the upload life,
Ingrid paid for Nathan's body to be regrown in an extremely experimental treatment.
It has a very low success rate, with the only wins currently coming from a select number
of pigeons.
After realising he had been murdered to stop his potential programme, Beyond, allowing
poor people to upload freely, Nathan spent a large amount of season two trying to figure
out why.
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.
Turning to the Ludds for help, Nathan decides to download into the body anyway, despite
the potential for death, in order to help Nora stop Freeyond before it's too late.
His plan initially succeeds, and finally together, Nora and Nathan join the Ludds on a train
bound to stop Freeyond.
However, in the final seconds, Nathan's nose starts bleeding, suggesting that his new body
is rejecting the downloaded soul.
On top of that, realising she's lost him, Ingrid starts a new power play, stealing hairs
from his hairbrush to seemingly grow a new Nathan from scratch.
Season three is likely to pick up immediately in the aftermath of this decision, with Nathan
and Nora on a race against the clock to save him before it's too late.
It'll also be largely political and away from Lakeview as the gang decide what to do next
as they intend to take down Freeyond.
Speaking to The Wrap, Daniels added: "Like Schrödinger's Cat, when we open the box we'll
see if the cat was alive or dead, but at the moment the cat is both alive and dead you
know?
"I feel like it could be played out in a certain number of episodes and then in a certain different
number of episodes, as long as there’s constantly enough pull forward and enough reveals."
"I have to say that the specific details of the mystery plot are something that we worked
out over the course of a lot of discussions and planting of clues and different possibilities,"
he added.
"I don't think we're at the complete end of the mystery, I will just say.
In hopeful optimism of a season three, I'm plotting more stuff now with some writers."
Andy Allo meanwhile has a very specific idea of where she wants Nora's story to go.
Speaking to Digital Spy, she said: "I think I'd want to see Nora become really radicalised
in a way and wanting to take down the whole thing.
I want some action, go real rebel mode and be like, 'Rah, let's burn it all down'."
"I'm in a tough position to answer that at the end of season two," added Amell.
"I will say that Greg has a pretty good track record for what he does, and I feel like we're
in good hands.
Whatever Greg thinks will probably be the best version of the show."