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I found the first three episodes amusing enough to want to continue.

I liked the "north european vibes" I found in the characters, especially in the protagonist, Dulcie, which I found to be pretty good.

I was initially worried about the LGBT narrative (which is often abused by writers in order to give some sould to the final product) but I found it to be pretty well integrated and not forced.

The only character I found a bit difficoult to believe in was Eddie, whom is a bit to exaggerated imo. She seems to incarnate a clown-ish archetype, overacted and with a dramatic trigger in her past, but to work on the long run needs a good evolution path (which seems to start in the third episode, so fingers crossed).

Writing isn't top-of-the-shelf, has its peeks and valleys, but manages to get you through te plot in a good way in some of principal turning points, slightly worse in the subplots.

Overall, it's intriguing, funny, and may evolve in a good way in the next episodes.

I'm in the middle of the second season, so it isn't a definitive judgement. The show is OK, the plot is OK, everything is OK, but there's nothing really good. The main characters are too much predictable and thin, too many deus ex machina coming in to save the day, secondary characters are foten completely nonsense and there's plenty of lacking information (almost in season one that's the only one I finished). I can't really judge the acting, mostly because I'm not an English native speaker, but Thornton just doesn't show nothing worth. But, imho, it's more a fault of the character than an actor's fault, one of the most non-original I've recently seen. The other primary charachters, Patty and Brittany, could be very intresting, if only we could get some volume on their stories. Lastly Marva, a character whose only purpose seems to let other characters essentially do nothing. Guys, that's fiction, you don't have to create a slave character to help the mains, you can just bypass the work scene, or if you want to keep them free of working at least you can give some dignity to Marva's character. In a few words, this show lacks two things: originality, most of the times, and, when there's some of the first, depth, which is completely missing everywhere, even in Billy's.

EDIT: I just arrived to episode 7 from season 2 and there's when this show becomes totally unbearable, one of the worst scripts I've seen in a while. If before wasn't good, now it's definitely bad. It was a 6, now I'm going with a 5, not even sufficient, I don't go under just because the first season at least was enjoyable.

1st episode; 4/10 I've seen the first episode, so this review is not definitive, but the first impression is pretty much bad, the plot is flat, the actors are, for now, really bad, and their characters are really too cliché to be interesting in any way. The easy and predictable romance could be the worst, i'll give it two more episodes to get a little better, but for now definitely not my kind. It's a shame because the subject of afterlife could have been really effective but the approach deleted every narrative tension leaving only a sense of boredom.

Edit End of the 1st Season; 5/10 The serie gets better after the first episode, the plot starts to make some sense, characters become slightly 3dimensional and some good themes come out. But truth is that this serie is a gargantuan "could have been" for me, the mix between drama and comedy it's annoying, even in their better form the characters (Nathan overall) and the plot are really too flat. The point is that this serie has a good idea on the background, but it's made in a completely wrong way, doesn't really treat any of the themes that pinpoints using deus ex-machina and comedy to avoid a real form of thinking. The world is depicted like a giant playground and its dynamics are childish as hell, the usual bad-comedy approach, but then it comes the drama, leterally out of nowhere and out of any context. It would have been bad even if the drama led to some kind of reflection, but there's not even the shadow of any real thougt, this is a playground and nothing has any real consequence, nothing said really means anything.

I really don't understand people who gives 10/10, talks of "deep philosophy" (???) et cetera. Are you for real? if a superficial serie like that can inspire you I think you should check some culture, the only good things that Upload inspired in me is some laughter and some romance, certainly nothing philosophical!