![]() ![]() I really am just picturing the way that this cast has interpreted all the characters. There are a lot of different versions in my head, but now that it’s actually been produced, I can barely remember them. ![]() I had a whole rewrite for Hannibal, at one point, which is funny to think about. And then, I had a draft where I thought maybe Nathan would be played by Hannibal Buress. And then, once you cast it, then you really know who you’re writing about. He had a whole backstory where he was Persian American, but with the different rewrites, a lot changed. For instance, in my first draft, I modeled Nathan after my barber, who’s a Persian American guy from Westwood who’s very good-looking and easy with the ladies. I can barely remember what my initial thoughts were. Now that you’ve done two seasons, how does what you’ve been able to do with this compare to what you thought it could be, when you first conceived it?ĭANIELS: I think it’s grown so much. This is a show that you’ve been thinking about for a while, on and off, in various forms over the years. We did add a few beats to the end of episode seven, the week that we were shooting it, which threw a lot of new stuff into Season 3. But sometimes, in the process of shooting, we’ll change something. We have table readings in the beginning, so they know everything. RELATED: Andy Allo on 'Upload' Season 2, the Twists and Turns, and Nora's JourneyĪt the start of the season, do you tell your actors what their full arc for the season will be, with all of those twists and turns, or are there things that you intentionally hold back until as late as possible?ĭANIELS: The way this streaming eight-episode chunk of production happens, all the scripts are done before we start shooting. But the general bones of the frustrating separation at the end, and then how they possibly find their way back to each other, and what’s happening in the mystery, is stuff I had. ![]() When I pitched it back in 2014, I had two seasons in my pitch, so I had a general sense, but you gather a new group of writers together and you realize, “Oh, wait a minute, you know what’s really popping is this thing from Season 1.” You discuss it and it goes off, sometimes, into a different direction. Overall, Upload continues to be an entertaining series, and I look forward to seeing where the series will go in the next season.During this 1-on-1 interview with Collider, Daniels talked about having a two-season plan in his initial pitch for the series, getting all the scripts written before they start shooting the season, the evolution of the Nathan character from earlier versions of the story, the progressing of the Nathan-Nora relationship, the very flawed Ingrid, the big questions left with the cliffhanger for Season 2, and that they’re already at work for a Season 3 that they’re very hopeful will happen.Ĭollider: When you did the first season and left us with that cliffhanger, did you know where you were going next in Season 2? Did you already have all of the answers to those questions? Ingrid's character this season lightly explores the inconveniences of using the body suit to be in Lakeview, but it does not go much further than that. Even Yang takes some of the food served at the dinner Nathan invites her to with her back to 2 Gig (why?). ![]() The most important question, which this series raises, remains unexplored in this second season: what does it mean to not have a body anymore? Instead, the episodes keep showing the inhabitants of Lakeview eating-with a running gag of the billionaire eating endangered species-when there is no need for them to eat at all anymore. Season 2 appears less interested in exploring what it truly means to be living in this digital world, and thus the consequences entailed in a relationship between a living person and one who is a virtual "consciousness" without a sensing body. The build-up tension between Nathan and Nora in Upload, however, fizzles out in this new season. There are already many other movies that explore this kind of impossible relationship, such The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947), Heaven Can Wait (1978), or Just Like Heaven (2005), of ghosts falling in love with a living person. The tension created with Ned not being able to touch his childhood crush Chuck, which would kill her, is what made Pushing Daisies such a great series. Although Upload has often been compared to The Good Place (mainly because of its creator Michael Schur), Greg Daniels' series had the potential to resemble more a series such as Pushing Daisies, with its star-crossed lovers storyline. The politics surrounding class divide in the virtual afterlife is interesting enough to sustain one's attention, but it distracts from what truly made season 1 so absorbing: the impossible love story between Nathan and Nora. Andy Allo as Nora and Zainab Johnson as Aleesha in 'Upload' Season 2 on Prime Video. ![]()
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