Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThe seeds for “Upload,” the Amazon Prime Video comedy about a young man named Nathan (Robbie Amell) who has his consciousness sent to a digital afterlife, were planted in creator Greg Daniels’ mind three decades ago, when technology was so different that such an idea was truly the stuff of science fiction.
But making the show in the 21st century meant creating a hybrid comedy-sci-fi-murder mystery to keep up not only with changing tech, but also to add to the “intensity” of story.“I like the [mashup] of a lot of different genre elements because they’re in the books that I like,” Daniels says, citing “the Harry Potter” series as a specific example.To hear Daniels tell “Upload’s” origin story, it.
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