On the streaming service Amazon has released the first season of the Download (Upload) Greg Daniels, Creator of the cult classic “Office” and “Parks and recreation”. According to Julia Siegelman, in a fantastic new Comedy, he was able to draw a picture imperfect, but still quite nice future with all its shortcomings is well worth it to live.As soon as the heroine “Download” Nora (Andy ALLO) comes to a bus where half the passengers sitting in the masks, you know — postcoronary the future has arrived. The yard is 2033, and the technology finally captured all spheres of life: the cars became self-governing (and, according to manufacturers, absolutely safe, although it is not so), the observance of traffic rules watched by drones, holographic smartphones have become an extension of the human hand, food can be printed on a 3D printer, and from new York to Los Angeles flight just half an hour (though compared to the economy class-even minus the current low-cost airlines seem riding comfort). In the brave new world absolutely for a your application, including eternal life: happy owners of the relevant tariff plan can before dying download a digital copy of his consciousness in the afterlife virtual reality, to communicate from thence with still living relatives and friends and even to remotely attend his own funeral.This is what happens to Nathan (Robbie Amell), a carefree startups from Los Angeles, when he suddenly gets into an accident on its self-driving car. However, the money to pay for digital Paradise from the company Horizen and download pays his friend, the rich heiress Ingrid (Allegra Edwards), is frighteningly inspired by the fact that the deceased boyfriend now literally belongs to her and she’s able to dispose of his posthumous existence. It occurs in a luxury hotel in the style of “classic Americana” and is slightly reminiscent of life in isolation — comfortable, but boring and like a normal human communication. His source for Nathan becomes the hole — his personal “angel”, that is, the employee of technical support service, which should provide all its needs. Of course, the laws of the genre, and contrary to corporate rules Horizen between Nathan and Nora flashes of sympathy, but their relationship is a bit complicated by the fact that Nathan is actually dead. And now it turns out that his death, it seems, was not accidental, and in addition to the fantastic and romantic component of the series there is another detective.Greg Daniels and his team of writers manage to juggle them quite relaxed and witty. Even if the line of investigation not the most exciting, and the main character lacks the charisma to ��desire them such an interesting girl like Nora, convincing, come to the aid of the vivid characters of the second plan and the jokes related to the device itself the perfect world of the future, is still subordinate to the ruthless economic laws of capitalism. It’s funny that in the TV series, created on the platform, belonging to one of the world’s largest corporations, these corporations become targets for satire (along the way, the authors did not forget to kick nasonovsky competitors, such as Google, Facebook or Intel). However, the Download is not a critical pamphlet. As in the most famous show of Daniels, the main theme is paradoxical, irreverent, sometimes childish and sometimes quite a black sense of humor, the mundane absurdity of everyday life (and death).Despite the fantastic surroundings, the situation here is very recognizable and it was so funny. For example, even in the Paradise of the user at every step need money for in-app purchases and pestering contextual advertising. To break through the barriers of artificial intelligence to the real live Manager who will listen to your complaint is still not a trivial task. And how difficult to build relationships in the era of “tinder” and “Hubert”, dedicated to the series, probably the funniest, but if you think about it, quite discouraging moments. However, the authors of the “Boot” still believe that simple human feelings can survive, even among the continuous digitalization— and in a time when many people were forced against their will to move their lives online, if not inspiring, at least comforting.
