em Upload /em Is Like em The Good Place /em if It Were More Interested in Class Struggle

What if the next life were no better than this one? Not a heaven or a hell, or even a purgatorial waiting room, but a world that operates according to the same rules as the one that came before it, only tweaked enough that we don't just accept them as the way things have to be. In the near future of Upload, whose first season begins streaming on Amazon Prime on Friday, death is not the end, at least for those with the resources to survive it. But the hereafter in Greg Daniels' series isn't spiritual, it's digital, and everything, including entry and your continued existence, comes at a cost. It's less like heaven than a cruise ship on an infinite voyage, one where everything is marked up because the dead aren't in much of a position to comparison-shop. Nathan Brown (Robbie Amell) finds his way to Lakeview, as his particularly plush digital forever is called, after his self-driving car rear-ends a garbage truck.