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Positive:
22
Mixed:
11
Negative:
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Critic Reviews
TV Guide MagazineApr 27, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Fast-paced, very funny and ultimately life-affirming, Upload is (you guessed it) to die for. [27 Apr - 10 May 2020, p. 11]
Nov 30, 2020
Season 1 Review:
At first it seems like Daniels is going to mainly satirize our modern world, which the show does reliably and deliciously. But as “Upload” progresses a conspiracy theory pushes forward and the underlying theme of income inequality becomes clear. Still, “Upload” never forgets to be funny.
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Screen RantAug 29, 2025
Mar 10, 2022
Season 2 Review:
The seven-episode second season retains the first's ability to simultaneously present a cynical outlook on the future and also argue that love can conquer (almost) all. It's a tricky tone to perfect, but the sharp acting and sharper scripts help immensely. "Upload" has also developed a distinctive visual language.
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ColliderOct 18, 2023
Season 3 Review:
Upload Season 3 continues to prove that this series is more than just an R-rated version of The Good Place. It doubles down on its satire while also being unafraid to throw a curveball at its audience. Daniels and his team take some massive swings and, once again, they're able to pull it off and exceed your expectations, wherever they might be.
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Mar 9, 2022
Season 2 Review:
Amell settles into Nathan with more self-awareness, but it’s Allo, Johnson, and Edwards who come out swinging. The solid performances, and Upload’s timely arrival—when is scrutinizing affluent conglomerates and the impact of social media not relevant?—really transform the show in its second outing.
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Aug 25, 2025Jun 24, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Daniels has succeeded to make the afterlife look like hell in Upload, even if it’s a hell with colorful foliage. And that’s just the kind of show we want to see right about now. But we also know he knows how to build a funny ensemble we’ll care about, and he’s on the way to doing that after the first episode.
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May 4, 2020
Season 1 Review:
If “Upload” breaks no ground other than in digging up its influences, it has put the pieces together in a smart and satisfying way; if it leaves a host of philosophical questions on the table and picks up the practical ones, it has more straightforward things on its mind: love and suspense.
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Apr 30, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“Upload” is very much its own thing, and a good thing at that. ... I marveled at the way Daniels has set up the world of 2033. It’s hard enough to create an earthbound sitcom premise that’s sturdy and distinct, but Daniels has done that while toggling among a number of different realities.
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Apr 28, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The transitory nature of death in this universe allows the show’s writers to mine some very dark laughs out of moments of surprise violence or gore, and the fact that they’ve got William B. Davis, The X-Files’ own Smoking Man, on hand to lob some of the bleakest one-liners doesn’t hurt. But as bracing as Upload’s comedy can be, it’s the human side that often lets it down.
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Apr 30, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Upload, thankfully, is a series that doesn't require a spine — much like how I remember countless individual jokes in Idiocracy, but if you ask me what the movie's plot is, I couldn't tell you anything. What keeps the show going as more than just a joke-fest is that it's also a fairly sweet, budding love story between Nathan and Nora. ... It's probably not as good as The Good Place, but it's got plenty of laughs and ideas to make you think.
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Oct 18, 2023
Season 3 Review:
Mileage may vary on whether or not it’s the best season of Upload, but it’s definitely the biggest, and you still get the feeling there are more stories to be told. It’s hard to predict how it’s all going to end, to be fair, but maybe that’s the point. Just strap in, buckle up, and go along for its uniquely off-center and wonderful ride.
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Oct 24, 2023
Season 3 Review:
We root for the couple, hoping that they will remain a couple and that their mission against the broad villains will succeed. But the whole time I was missing the more amusing world of Lakeville and its strange rules and limitations, a world that, as we get deeper into AI, is of particular interest.
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May 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
None of the comedy is all that great, though. That’s at least a little to do with the performers, especially Amell, who’s serviceable as Nathan but not bringing anything to this project that’s not already on the page. ... It’s too relentlessly sad for the humor to work, and none of the humor is quite as sharp as Ingrid’s dangerous shoulder blades.
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May 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The arc of the season requires viewers to become invested in the budding romance between Nathan and his on-the-clock caretaker, and it’s difficult to work up any enthusiasm for fanning the sparks. Where the show excels is in playing out its premise at length, and in depth.
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The GuardianMay 12, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The intricately realized setting needs a story, however, at which point this fertile if familiar premise begins to suffer. ... He’s got some substantive ideas about inequality, technology and how one feeds the other; they only need time to be developed. The 10 episodes, some longer than 30 minutes and some shorter, hustle us through a linear plot pieced together from used-up components.
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Apr 24, 2020
Season 1 Review:
What glimpses we get of “Upload’s” electronic heaven seem at least beholden to a sensibility, however nasty; more often, we’re stuck with Nathan, a less-than-compelling Virgil leading us through a journey past life that’s, by now, become familiar enough to read as cliché.
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RogerEbert.comApr 30, 2020
Season 1 Review:
This is one of the most stunning disappointments of the TV year, a show that displays none of the wit or charm of the best Daniels projects like “Parks and Recreation” and “The Office.” ... The ideas are superficial, the performances are mostly bland, and the plotting is frustrating. Worst of all, it’s just not that funny.
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