Upload [REVIEW]
A short webseries about a software developer who gets post-humously uploaded to a virtual afterlife, but... not is all as it seems...
With sitcom-length episodes, they're well-paced and flow well. It has the aesthetic and some of the tropes of The Good Place. The better comparison, however, is probably Avenue 5, with its dark humour and pointed portrayal of capitalism.
The show is set in a capitalist dystopia of an America, but remains surprisingly optimistic. It captures spoilt rich kids (and adults who remain forever kids because of who they are) to a tee, and exploring what a future shaped by virtual reality could look like. The relationships between characters are heartfelt though, and I thought the kid characters in particular were well-written.
Exploring what personhood and empirical reality looks like when the virtual alternative is almost indistinguishable raises plenty of ethical grey areas, and the series alludes to them, though it never quite goes into exploring them.