Upload (TV series)

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May 1, 2020 (2020-05-01)

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March 11, 2022 (2022-03-11)

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October 20, 2023 (2023-10-20)

November 10, 2023 (2023-11-10)

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August 25, 2025 (2025-08-25)

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"Welcome to Upload"

Greg Daniels

Greg Daniels

May 1, 2020 (2020-05-01)

Computer programmer Nathan Brown is dying after a self‑driving car crash. Ingrid, his wealthy, possessive girlfriend, insists his consciousness be uploaded to Lakeview, an exclusive digital afterlife, on her account. When Nathan discovers the many downsides of his afterlife, such as the corporate monetization, and being under Ingrid's thumb, he is ready to commit "virtucide". He is stopped by Nora, his customer support "angel", who helps him cope with his new life. As Nora leaves her desk at the end of her shift, computer files containing some of Nathan's memories are remotely deleted.

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"Five Stars"

Greg Daniels

Greg Daniels

May 1, 2020 (2020-05-01)

Nathan's therapist tasks Nathan with meeting five "uploads". Nora tries unsuccessfully to improve her ratings. Ingrid is planning Nathan's funeral. Nathan meets David Choak, his wealthy neighbor, who suggests that Nathan was obviously murdered for his work on a "freeware" digital afterlife, thereby threatening a six hundred billion dollar industry. Nathan's cousin, Fran, finds that the self-driving car had been tampered with. Nathan discusses his memory gaps with Nora; she manages to restore one of Nathan's memory files, and discovers a software deal Nathan had been preparing before his death.

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"The Funeral"

Jonathan van Tulleken

Mary Gulino

May 1, 2020 (2020-05-01)

Nathan prepares for his funeral happening in the real world, assuming a lot of people will be there. Before the funeral they watch news coverage of Rupert Tilford, a man who won the chance to be "downloaded" into a clone body. The process works for a few moments until Rupert's nose starts bleeding and he expresses discomfort before his head explodes. Nathan attends his funeral with Luke, a fellow Upload, and Mildred who is Ingrid's grandmother and also resides in Lakeview. Nora attends his funeral in New York and meets three former girlfriends from his college days, who inquire about her connection to him. Fran questions Ingrid about the accident, not believing Nathan died prematurely and Nathan finds out there wasn't much money given to his surviving family from his unfinished software deal. He's also disheartened by Ingrid's speech as instead of praising his life she praises Rupert's, and his best friends leave during the funeral ceremony. Nathan is informed by Fran that she's investigating the accident and plans on suing the car company because of shady details behind the accident. Nora finds out that Nathan's business deal never went through and when she interviews the man in Nathan's software, she is denied any information.

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"The Sex Suit"

Jonathan van Tulleken

Aasia Lashay Bullock

May 1, 2020 (2020-05-01)

Nathan learns about the various plans of Lakeview's world, and sees what is included for those that pay the least. He's frustrated that Horizen is more interested in getting money for upgrades than providing an equal opportunity experience for all residents. During a Vogue interview, there's tension between Nathan and Ingrid stemming from Nathan's belief that Ingrid no longer loves him as she refuses to use a VR suit to have sex with him. Nathan and Nora's friendship becomes closer, with Nathan feeling he can relate to her more than Ingrid. Ingrid unexpectedly shows up at Nathan's room and prepares to have sex with him, only to discover he can't get an erection. Nora is called in to assist, much to Nathan's dismay, who feels embarrassed about the awkward situation, but gets an erection from Nora while Ingrid is distracted by her cat in real life. Fran continues her investigation into Nathan's accident, and upon viewing surveillance footage from the grocery store, discovers that Ingrid went to Nathan's car while he was inside. Nora, upset by her lack of intimacy, reinstalls a dating app and is paired up with Byron, who she previously met on the same app using a different profile. While having sex with him, she pictures her earlier encounter with Nathan.

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"The Grey Market"

Kacie Anning

Mike Lawrence

May 1, 2020 (2020-05-01)

Dylan is frustrated that his family, except for his mother, have pretty much forgotten about him and moved on with their lives and because he is still stuck in a child's body six years after his upload. Nathan and Ingrid take part in couple's therapy, each bringing their respective therapists, both claiming that they feel they're becoming disconnected. Nathan feels that he doesn't have much of his own life, since it's all controlled by Ingrid's decisions. He also reveals Fran's information that he wasn't actually dying before being uploaded. When Nora has to leave Dylan to see her father in the hospital, Nathan offers to watch him. Luke convinces him to visit the Grey Market, a virtual equivalent of a black market, in order to buy hacks to enter a virtual party with living people. While there, Nathan buys a hack into his former business partner Jamie's phone while Dylan absconds to get an illegal avatar upgrade so he can appear as an older person. Upon returning to Lakeview, Dylan discovers his upgrade gave him the body of a young woman which Nora then reprograms to his former body. Fran is in her self-driving vehicle on her way to see Josh Pitzer, when her car malfunctions and drives off the end of a pier.

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"The Sleepover"

Kacie Anning

Shepard Boucher

May 1, 2020 (2020-05-01)

Nathan is informed by his niece Nevaeh that she's having a sleepover with Ingrid as well as Fran's disappearance. Nora's father tells her that she needs to get to know Byron more, who's alive, instead of focusing on Nathan, who's dead. Nathan is becoming bored being by himself at Lakeview and tries every chance he can get to spend time with Nora. Luke is causing problems for Aleesha by exploiting bugs in the system to get items and upgrades without paying for them. During their date, Nora finds out some interesting things about Byron, including that he likes to inspire children to always try and do their best, regardless of the situation. During dinner with her family with Nevaeh present, Ingrid dislikes the way they treat both Nevaeh and Nathan because they come from humble means, eventually kicking everyone out. Nora's date with Byron goes awry when he mocks the work that she does. She spends that rest of the evening talking to Nathan, even letting him know that she agrees his death wasn't an accident. She falls asleep at her desk, being awoken by Aleesha.

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"Bring Your Dad to Work Day"

David Rogers

Owen Daniels

May 1, 2020 (2020-05-01)

Nora is exposed by her boss Lucy about her overnight excursion in Lakeview with Nathan, and threatened with losing her good rating should she continue to pursue a close relationship. Ingrid attends a support group and says she's thinking of "freezing" Nathan temporarily until she can be with him. Nora sees a news report about the death of Josh Pitzer and suspects that someone is trying to cover up anything to do with Nathan's program, "Beyond". Nora has Nathan give her father a tour of Lakeview, hoping he'll choose to be uploaded once he dies. A figure approaches the door leading to the data servers for Lakeview and plants a bomb inside, while Nora uses her boss Lucy's computer to find out what she can about what happened in regards to Josh's death and Nathan's damaged memories. She finds that an unknown employee has access to Nathan's files and tries to look into it, but the bomb goes off and shuts down all affected computers. The computers come back on and she searches the global employee database for the unknown employee ID, finding no results. Even after a successful tour with Nathan, Nora's father decides not to go ahead with uploading himself when he dies, instead maintaining his beliefs that he will be reunited with his wife in heaven.

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"Shopping Other Digital After-Lives"

Jeffrey Blitz

Alex Sherman & Alyssa Lane

May 1, 2020 (2020-05-01)

Lucy informs Nora that she's being suspended because of her constant hanging out with Nathan, which goes against company policy. Nathan confesses his feelings for Nora but is not aware that Lucy has taken control of Nora's avatar and she rejects him. Dejected, Nathan asks his mother to help him find a different afterlife that his family can afford. Aleesha informs Nora of Nathan leaving Lakeview. Fearing that he's in danger, she travels to Los Angeles and meets up with Ingrid who was unaware of Nathan's plans. While Ingrid is on the phone, Nora finds a box of Nathan's belongings and looks through them. Nathan ends up deciding to stay in Lakeview but when they leave the agency, an unknown assailant grabs the hard drive Nathan has been downloaded to and tosses it into the water to destroy him. Nora reveals to Nathan's mother that she noticed the guy before and gave Ingrid a dummy drive while making sure Nathan's drive was with her.

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"Update Eve"

Daina Reid

Greg Daniels

May 1, 2020 (2020-05-01)

Everyone including Lakeview residents and Horizen employees prepare for a new upgrade for Lakeview. Nathan decides to break up with Ingrid. Lucy keeps pressuring Nora to admit her feelings for Nathan, which would enable Lucy to fire her, but Nora denies it. Nathan finds out that Jamie has been avoiding his calls because he felt ashamed for sleeping with Ingrid; he forgives Jamie and gets him to loan him enough money so he can remain as a "2 Gig", the lowest class of residents (who only have 2 gigabyte of data volume each month). Nathan pressures Ingrid about what she knows about his death but she remains mum. Later, she confronts her father and tells him that she programmed Nathan's car to prioritize his life over others, allowing him to survive the crash long enough to upload. After learning from IT that Uploads who are asleep during the upgrade will have their memories restored, Nora convinces Nathan to stay awake in order to find out the truth, even if he might forget anything that has happened since his upload. Nora gives Nathan a program she stole from an IT guy which allows him to see and manipulate Lakeview's code on the fly.

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"Freeyond"

Daina Reid

Greg Daniels

May 1, 2020 (2020-05-01)

Nathan wakes up from the update, with his missing memories restored. One of the images shows that Ingrid's father was one of the investors interested in buying Nathan and Jamie's software, but rather than going with a rich company, they went with Josh Pitzer and his smaller company. Nathan later met Ingrid's father in private and gave him a copy of the software without Jamie's knowledge to get more money and support his family. Nora was able to bypass Nathan's upgrade and it appears he has forgotten ever knowing her, much to her dismay. Nathan later confides in Luke that he remembers everything but felt he could not face her, knowing he was the bad guy. Nathan moves to the 2 Gig room and calls Nora to confess to her. While talking, the assailant who tried to destroy Nathan's hard drive breaks into her apartment and tries to kill her, prompting her to flee. Using the program he got from Nora, Nathan manages to help Nora escape. He traps the attacker in an elevator and uses it to kill him. Nora speaks to her father about what Nathan and she have found, and he suggests that she hide off the grid until they can figure out who is responsible for Nathan's death. Nora finally admits her feelings for Nathan, but he can't respond since his data has been used up. Nora heads away with Byron as Ingrid comes to visit Nathan in his room to tell him that she's uploaded herself so they can finally be together forever. He gets so upset that his one word response causes him to use up the extra 1GB of data she gave him, prompting Ingrid to call for tech support as the last light in the room flickers out.

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"Welcome Back, Mr. Brown"

Dee Rees

Izzy Kadish

March 11, 2022 (2022-03-11)

Nora's father brings her to the woods to live with the Ludds, a group of techno-sceptic anarchists who despise the fact that only the rich profit from the technological advances. There, she meets Matteo. Meanwhile, Nathan tries to find Nora but has no luck. He reluctantly returns to Ingrid and starts making out with her, as he feels guilty that she uploaded just for him. It is revealed that Ingrid faked uploading and instead uses a VR bodysuit. Nora watches them using a cat avatar and thinks Nathan is over her. The episode ends with Nathan leaving Nora a mailbox message professing his love.

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"Dinner Party"

Jeffrey Blitz

Lauren Houseman

March 11, 2022 (2022-03-11)

Ingrid hosts a dinner party with some of her friends, but Nathan invites Luke and his 2gig friend Yang to attend as well. Not satisfied with the AI butlers, she requests angels to help out, forcing Aleesha and her temp Tinsley to cater to her. Tinsley uses Nora's old avatar as she doesn't have one yet, briefly reigniting Nathan's hopes that she returned. Nora meets Boris Netherlands, the actor whose likeness was used to create the AI servants. They use his likeness to create a fake-servant avatar to enter Lakeview unnoticed. Nathan bonds with Tinsley after she reveals her true identity.

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"Robin Hood"

Jeffrey Blitz

Maxwell Theodore Vivian

March 11, 2022 (2022-03-11)

Nathan and Luke use the penknife they stole before to siphon bandwidth from wealthy residents and give it to the 2gigs. They convince Ingrid's handler to help them win at a high-stakes poker game by manipulating the cards using the device. Nora fake-interviews for a job as a coder at Horizen in order to access the coding floor and scatter ring drives with malware in hopes that someone will plug them into a computer to give the Ludds access. When she hears that the coders have found the penknife and Nathan is forced to discard it, she helps Ingrid win her match against David Choak. She is hired as a bug-fixer after giving an impassioned speech on the virtues of Lakeview.

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"Family Day"

Athina Rachel Tsangari

Anna Ssemuyaba

March 11, 2022 (2022-03-11)

Nathan's family comes to visit, with Ingrid still pretending to be uploaded. Horizen tries to sell virtual babies to uploads. Nora and Nathan meet for the first time after she returns to Horizen. Matteo convinces Nora to plant a virus in Lakeview that propagates through the AI butlers and broadcasts Ludd propaganda as well as deleting residents. Feeling guilty, Nora uses her new access in the real world to stop the attack. Tinsley shows compassion to the AI guy after Ingrid scolds him, making him learn empathy, which he later uses to comfort Ingrid.

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"Mind Frisk"

Athina Rachel Tsangari

Megan Neuringer

March 11, 2022 (2022-03-11)

Horizen uses the Ludd attack Nora started as a cover to officially scale back uploads' privacy rights and search their minds and dreams as well as profit from selling that information on the internet. Nora and Nathan team up to hack the "Mind Frisk" program before it can go online. In the process, they discover that David Choak, Nathan's ultra-wealthy neighbor, was involved in his death. Meanwhile, Aleesha discovers that Luke had sex dreams about her that were uploaded onto the internet by her boss. Ingrid tries out an AI baby to prepare her for virtual motherhood, but it overwhelms her.

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"The Outing"

Jeffrey Blitz

Yael Green

March 11, 2022 (2022-03-11)

Nathan and Luke tour New York City with Nora and Aleesha in an attempt to find out why billionaire David Choak has downloaded into a robot body and gone to the city. They discover that Freeyond has one location each in New York City and Los Angeles, but hundreds of locations in swing states like Pennsylvania or Florida, concluding that the free system is designed to lure poor voters into uploading to skew election results, since uploads don't have voting rights. It is revealed that Ingrid has been growing Nathan a new body in order to download him.

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"Download"

Jeffrey Blitz

Owen Daniels

March 11, 2022 (2022-03-11)

After Ingrid reveals that she is not really dead and has been growing a clone body for him to download into, Nathan happily breaks up with her, as he realizes he owes her nothing. Nathan tells Nora he is willing to download into the clone body in order to use his retina to access the backdoor he installed into the Freeyond code, despite the risks associated with downloads. Aleesha restricts Luke's dream state to only experience kid-friendly dreams, which at first annoys him, but he later starts enjoying the simple puzzle games. Nora enlists the Ludds' help to break into the cloning facility where Ingrid is watching over Nathan's clone body. They convince her to let them download Nathan and leave to return to New York. Meanwhile, Tinsley restores Nathan's mind from a backup, thinking he had been accidentally deleted, and Ingrid uses a hair she finds on Nathan's old hairbrush to continue her plans to have a baby. Nora and Nathan sleep together on the Hyperloop. The episode ends with Nathan discovering that his nose is bleeding, a sign of download failure.

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"Ticking Clock"

Jeffrey Blitz

Greg Daniels

October 20, 2023 (2023-10-20)

Nate and Nora continue to investigate the shady dealings of Horizen with Nate not telling Nora that his downloaded state is failing to spare her worry. Meanwhile, the backup of Nate restored by Tinsley does not have the memory of breaking up with Ingrid. Seeing this as a chance to prove that she can be a better person, Ingrid pretends that everything is fine. Detective Sato is revealed to be a bad guy. After shooting and killing Nora's ex, Nora is able to kill Sato.

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"Strawberry"

Jeffrey Blitz

Alison Brown

October 20, 2023 (2023-10-20)

Nora and Nathan track a suspicious Horizen employee known only as “Strawberry.” Ingrid tries to reconnect with the restored version of Nathan, who seems unaware of their past issues. Meanwhile, Aleesha struggles with her new management role at Horizen and discovers strange behavior in the code logs.

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"Cyber Discount Day"

Tom Marshall

Megan Neuringer

October 27, 2023 (2023-10-27)

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"Download Doctor"

Tom Marshall

Farhan Arshad

October 27, 2023 (2023-10-27)

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"Rescue Mission"

David Rogers

Stephanie Johnson

November 3, 2023 (2023-11-03)

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"Memory Crackers"

Alberto Belli

Owen Daniels

November 3, 2023 (2023-11-03)

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"Upload Day"

Sarah Boyd

Maxwell Theodore Vivian

November 10, 2023 (2023-11-10)

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"Flesh and Blood"

Sarah Boyd

Greg Daniels

November 10, 2023 (2023-11-10)

When both Nates sneak into the Grey Market to expose Horizen's crimes, they get caught and detained. In the real world, everyone gathers at Nate's mom's apartment to compare notes before getting a call from one of the Nates. He says that the other Nate has been killed, but the season ends before he can reveal which Nate he is and which one got deleted.

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"Wedding Weekend"

Daina Reid

Owen Daniels & Izzy Kadish

August 25, 2025 (2025-08-25)

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"Workload"

Daina Reid

Farhan Arshad & Megan Neuringer

August 25, 2025 (2025-08-25)

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"Spa Day"

Jeffrey Blitz

Christopher Zane Tracy & Maxwell Theodore Vivian

August 25, 2025 (2025-08-25)

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"Mile End"

Jeffrey Blitz

Greg Daniels

August 25, 2025 (2025-08-25)