@UploadOnPrime is making me #Reminisce of the Times Long Ago when We Had to Wait A WHOLE WEEK between Episodes | #Reminiscence #Reminiscing #Reminiscent #Reminised #Reminisces

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'That word' (below-hyperlinked to Amazon's streaming-service's offer of that listing (FREE if you subscribe to Prime)) is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...
The word “Reminisce” is built on ancient words that mean "to Remember (Call to Mind, Think) Again."
I think I mentioned it already (in a post about Heaven), but that was after I'd only seen two-or-three episodes of the sci-fi comedy; but now that I've seen the rest of the first season, I'm curious about 'what's gonna happen'—a lot like series' fans were for the "long waits" between episodes back in the pre-'streaming days.'

























We are introduced to the setting (the near-future, where the wealthy are 'uploaded' into a Heaven-like virtual-reality when they stop living ... maybe the middle-class and the poor get 'uploaded' too, but not to the same quality of reality as the rich get) almost as if it's real ... kinda like CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND or Ally McBeal.

I mean; we're shown futuristic things (like self-driving cars and cell-phone tech loaded into your thumb & -back of hand) the same way many of us are introduced to new technology like Zoom-Cams & iPods.

I guess it's good that we get used to 'new technology' like that so soon, as that lets us get into the 'relationship drama' going on.
  • Nathan Brown is an up-and-coming software-designer who gets nearly-killed in a (tampered-with, we learn later) self-driving car, and is taken to the hospital and his wealthy girlfriend (an heiress who is also a respectable businesswoman) Ingrid Kannerman–rather than put Nathan through the whole life-support & therapy & recovery process–has the company Horizen upload him to the wealthy neighborhood Lake View.
  • There–when he starts to miss 'real life' so much that he almost commits 'virtucide' by jumping into a torrent near the neighborhood–he meets his "Angel" (customer-service rep whose name he's not supposed to learn) Nora Anthony.
    • long-story-short there: Nathan & Nora fall in love, so Nathan does the honorable thing and downgrades from Lake View (which his former girlfriend was paying-for) to 2G (where he can only use 2 gig. of data per ... day? month?)
  • While Nathan & Nora & Ingrid are struggling with love, we learn
    • that Nathan's death was actually a murder,
    • from which Ingrid barely saved him by botching the tampering committed by her father Jack (or -by his henchmen),
    • because of some of Nathan's past memories that were erased when he was uploaded—memories involving a secret software he had been working-on, software which Jack wanted to take before Nathan & Nathan's business-partner/best-friend Jamie (James) took it to the market




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