[This story includes mild spoilers for Upload season three, episode three “Cyber Discount Day” and episode four “Download Doctor.”]
In Upload‘s version of the future, where people live and work is horrifying.
To be fair, creator Greg Daniels’ mind isn’t entirely responsible for season three’s terrifying visions of what society’s personal and professional spaces could be amid the rapid expansion of tech and digital life. Much of the responsibility for this bleak-looking future — the secret upload call center, temporary temp agency and “Reduced Circumstance Housing” where Nathan (Robbie Amell) and Andy (Andy Allo) come to stay with his mom (Jessica Tuck) — in episodes three and four were based on real concepts and places tied to homes and offices.
Director Tom Marshall, says he pulled from the “very real world of this time,” including Hong Kong’s coffin houses for episode three’s housing design. According to The Guardian, one such version was just 500 square feet featuring up to 30 residents, cut up with plywood bunk beds...
In Upload‘s version of the future, where people live and work is horrifying.
To be fair, creator Greg Daniels’ mind isn’t entirely responsible for season three’s terrifying visions of what society’s personal and professional spaces could be amid the rapid expansion of tech and digital life. Much of the responsibility for this bleak-looking future — the secret upload call center, temporary temp agency and “Reduced Circumstance Housing” where Nathan (Robbie Amell) and Andy (Andy Allo) come to stay with his mom (Jessica Tuck) — in episodes three and four were based on real concepts and places tied to homes and offices.
Director Tom Marshall, says he pulled from the “very real world of this time,” including Hong Kong’s coffin houses for episode three’s housing design. According to The Guardian, one such version was just 500 square feet featuring up to 30 residents, cut up with plywood bunk beds...
- 10/28/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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