Upload (TV series)
Upload. Prime Video, 2020-. Greg Daniels, creator.[1] Canada: 3 Arts Entertainment, Amazon Studios, Reunion Pacific Entertainment (production) / Amazon Studios (US distribution).[2]
IMDb Storyline: "A man is able to choose his own afterlife after his untimely death, by having his consciousness uploaded into a virtual world. As he gets used to his new life and befriends his angel (real world handler), questions about his death arise."[3]
So see for VR and the theme of uploaded consciousness, as, e.g., gigabyte space afterlives in Frederik Pohl's later Gateway Saga books, especially perhaps The Annals of the Heechee.
Reviewed by Nora Castle, SFRA Review 51.1 (Winter 2021).[4] From the opening paragraph:
Following in the vein of shows like The Good Place (2016-2020) and Forever (2018), Amazon Prime Video’s Upload (2020) tackles the question of what happens after we die. A bingeable, comedic SF TV show set in 2033, it depicts an Earth in which the death of the body does not spell the end for the mind; with sufficient warning (and a sufficient budget), humans can ‘upload’ into one of a variety of pay-to-play virtual-reality (VR) ‘heavens’ and live on, interacting with the living as well as their fellow ‘uploads’. Nathan Brown, the protagonist, is a coder working on a freeware version of one of the many ‘heavens’ currently on offer from mega-corporations such as Oscar Meyer Intel and Nat Geo Instagram [...]. After his autonomous vehicle crashes, Nathan, dazed and dying, is pressured by his overbearing girlfriend, Ingrid, into uploading his consciousness into Lakeview by Horizen, “the only digital afterlife environment modelled on the great Victorian hotels of the United States and Canada” (“Welcome to Upload”). [...][5]
RDE, finishing, 5NOv21