Upload is a series of Amazon Prime Videos that has been on everyone's lips for a week now and maybe for no good reason.
Watching the pilot is not difficult to understand why many people liked it and impressed few others.
The distinction is mainly about the market share and the target audience.
A young audience and maybe not so many TV series, an audience without big serial experiences and with little desire to watch the "how" a TV series is made, its overall impact and the much abused word quality.
This type of viewer will have seen in "Upload" a breath of fresh air, a very original TV series never seen before. Beautiful, charming, funny protagonist. Genius scenic ploys. Futuristic concept. First-rate special effects and a healthy "Romance".
Of course this set of things have attracted the attention of this type of viewers.
And it should.
From this point of view, the series gets a very high rating.
But...
If you're a spectator, like me for example, who has hundreds of TV series behind him, has seen everything, you like cinema, narrative coherence, character and story development, you look at the substance of things and doesn't stop at the appearance then "Upload" can't get very high marks.
It adds nothing to the serial landscape.
The visual and narrative impact was of the type:
"I'm looking at a reboot of 'The Good Place'"?
That's it, but without that philosophical aftertaste of the recently finished TV series that had a much more analytical touch on life and its meaning.
A handsome but questionably talented protagonist.
You find them brilliant but behind which he seems to hide very little.
That's why "Upload" can be summarized as a TV series that wanted to copy The Good Place without knowing how to capture the deeper essence.
A series of excellent entertainment, well confined, fresh, but that adds nothing to the contemporary serial landscape.
That's why Upload appeals so much to many and little to others.
And that's okay.