AMAZON PRIME UPLOAD:
FULL PILOT EPISODE
(click the photo)
Because Amazon does not know how to advertise its good shows, but shoved the very mid and expensive LOTR series down our throats...and now that I KNOW the series gets a complete story told...
For those who haven't hopped on board yet...
This is the UPLOAD pilot episode.
It was created by the people behind Parks and Rec and is an anti-capitalist, sci-fi dystopian speculative futurist, romcom, murder mystery, sitcom... It's very charming, sweet, and feels spookily prescient at times.
I can think of some pretty obvious reasons why a mega-corporation like Amazon didn't push this show.
Anyway...
Here is the pilot for free.
The rest of the 1st season (a quick binge of 10, 30-minuteish episodes) is on the same "platform".
Enjoy!
So in Upload on Amazon Prime there is a scene that is truly peak terrible rich person (in a show with many examples of this, this still manages to stand out to me) and you don't actually fully realize just how truly awful it is right away, you might not even realize it without a couple watch throughs if at all
The scene in question is David Choak eating his rare black rhino meat steak, which he claims they had to "kill the last of to get the flavor just right"
Now of course that alone is pretty peak rich person awfulness, but it actually get worse. In a later episode they actually have a "system update" where a part of the update is ADDING sour, bitter, and umami flavoring to their taste buds because they "only have salty and sweet" which they said made everything taste like kettle corn
Choak doesn't seem to have gotten the update earlier or anything and realistically it is probably a continuity issue (I firmly believe that every show should have at least 1 person on staff as a continuity expert to catch these things but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) but either way it leaves the impression of this literally peak rich asshole thing (that totally fits the narrative) of having them kill the last of a species so he could taste it in a stake in digital heaven and it wasn't even something that he was getting the actual flavor of for a long time, he made an animal extinct so he could have the right flavor, likely knowing full well it was going to taste like kettle corn either way
What a fucking savage
Hilarious added element to this scene though that did take several watches for me to catch the full implications of
Comparison from Amazon Primes less then 1million dwindling viewership despite thinking she would have a larger audience going with Amazon, it hurt her more given that the company is more interested in promoting invincible, the boys, and good omens content more to suppress and hurt the fact that hazbin comes out in January, A24's website and email subscription are radio silent as well :x doesn't help that happy day in hell is a terrible opener and they should have just stuck to the original casting....
If I saw these numbers deflate this hard in viewership I would be terrified. People are more interested in the merchandising and shit post songs rather then your actual series :'D
She's so desperate for views that people are only coming for again, the character design appeal and the really terrible songs.... yikes she couldn't even clear halfway through season 2 without jumping the shark for merchandise..... remind me how she's independent?
THIS POST WAS MADE PRE-AMAZON HAZBIN HOTEL SERIES RELEASE AND WAS A COMPARISON IN DWINDLING VIEWRSHIP OF THE FIRST WEEK OF PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL BEFORE ITS RELEASE. DON'T GET IT TWISTED<3
My favourite thing is when the mother of capitalistic "we make sure the government is wrapped around our finger" companies (Amazon) has (at least) two popular shows with a "allowing capitalism to grow into a government controlling power will lead to the stripping of human rights and to capitalizing on human death in ways we’ve never seen before and also to the end of the world" message
The concept of having black and white (as in not in color) people in Upload doesn't make sense since soon before introducing us to the concept we watch Nora build up what Nathan looks like using his own memories which wouldn't require a photo like they say was needed for the black and white people, even if they wanted to look younger than when they died, so unless those people don't have their memories (unlikely given context) or don't have accessible memories (also unlikely given the whole situation), I get that they did it so you can be super aware of who the older people within Upload are, but they didn't make it make contextual sense so it bugs me
Currently on season 1 ep 6 of Upload and while yes Ingrid is a bit much I love the way she stands up for Nevaeh and herself.
Ingrid is just serving cunt and they can’t handle her 🤷🏾♀️
Also I feel like the show is making her out to be a bitch in order to justify her getting cheated on and words can not describe how much I loath this trope.
I commit piracy because like half of my PAID subscription services randomly decide every now and then that I shouldn't, in fact, be allowed to access the content THAT I ALREADY PAID FOR.