This episode kicks off with Nora on a virtual bike ride with Dave, where he takes her to a spot he and her mother use to sneak off to. She tasks her VR mask off for a moment when she receives a text from Byron, which she ignores. She tells him about Byron and he encourages her to get to
Read moreThe episode kicks off with Dylan video calling his mum while his younger brother is getting ready for a school semi-formal he is attending with his girlfriend. His mother is clearly still struggling with his loss, but in the background his father is sitting on the couch watching a football game, and his brother is demanding that his mother talk
Read moreThe episode kicks off with David teaching Nathan how to play golf. David asks the AI Guy to get him an Arnold Palmer bot so he can gloat about his golfing skills. Nathan tells Nora about his golf lesson with David and that he is looking for purpose in his life, but Nora tells him that Uploads can’t work. Nora
Read moreThe episode kicks off with live news feed of the first “download”, an attempt to download the uploaded consciousness of Rupert Tilford into a clone body. The news feed is playing while Nathan is getting dressed for his funeral with a visiting Ingrid’s assistance, and Nora is on the bus on her way home from work. It appears to have
Read moreNow that the premise and main characters of the show have been established, the real fun can begin. The episode kicks off with Nora hooking up with an attractive man, Byron, with both of them placing “stick on cameras” on their chests, saying they consent to sex. Once they finish hooking up, they agree to give each other five stars
Read moreThe job of a pilot is to establish the premise and characters of a show, this pilot did its job beautifully. The episode kicks off with a video advertisement of Lakeview by Horizen, a luxurious afterlife where a person’s consciousness can be uploaded and they can live their afterlife seemingly as they please. The camera zooms out to reveal the
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and establish new ones for the next season. I felt that this finale did three-quarters of the job. Penny & Hugh—I’ll start my review with them as the finale kicked off with them. The finale picks up where the previous episode left off—Penny’s car accident, with
Read moreMy Unigrad article, Be the Architect of Your Future, is an article I wrote for Unigrad, a blog about university life. My article was published on Unigrad on 12 September 2013. The Unigrad blog appears to have been taken down as it’s domain is parked, so I decided to re-publish my article on this blog.
Read moreWriting has always been a part of me. I liken it to another limb – it’s not natural for me to not write. I love getting caught up with the characters and worlds I create. Every character I create is like a family member. I know what they look like, sound like, act like, when their birthdays are and what
Read moreMy Hotcourses Australia articles were articles I wrote for and were published on Hotcourses Australia, a blog aimed at Australians wanting to pursue post-secondary education. I wrote the articles in 2013 and they were published on the Hotcourses Australia blog in 2014. As Hotcourses Australia has been re-branded as Hotcourses Abroad, my articles are no longer on the blog, so
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