Back when this community was on lemmy.villa-straylight.social, I went on a rant about how the TV series Upload on Amazon Prime was set in a cyberpunk world yet the story they chose to tell in this world was a romantic comedy.

Since making that post, season 3 of Upload came out. And it’s amazing to me how little romantic comedy is left in the show and they’re leaning more and more towards cyberpunk. Season 1 was all “will they/won’t they” but by season 2 the couple got together and started focusing more on solving the main character’s murder. And now in season 3, they’re trying to stop an evil corporation. They even had William Gibson provide a quick 10-second cameo as a holographic librarian.

I’m sure it wasn’t much work for William Gibson to show up and record 2 lines of dialog, but I think it’s really cool that the people behind Upload would even think to ask him to provide a cameo. This makes me more confident that the showrunners know they’re making a cyberpunk show and it isn’t just me trying to find cyberpunk themes in everything I watch.

While I still don’t know if I’d recommend the show to any cyberpunk fans, it’s definitely the most cyberpunk romantic comedy I’ve ever seen and I’m pretty sure it’s the only live-action cyberpunk show airing right now. So I’ll take what I can get.