After a self-driving car crash, Nathan is uploaded to Lakeview, his girlfriend's family's digital after-life, where he meets his customer service rep, Nora.
Tropes:
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Played with. The A.I.s we see in the show generally seem to work as intended, but the AI in Nathan's car seemingly malfunctioned leading to his crash. However, it's implied that this was a case of deliberate tampering by an outside party.
- Artistic License – Medicine: Nathan is told he is "dying of a punctured lung" after his car accident. While a punctured lung is serious, it's rarely fatal, especially in someone otherwise young and healthy. This becomes somewhat justified when it's revealed that Nathan was in fact recovering before he was uploaded, but it still doesn't explain why a nurse was so quick to jump to it being a fatal injury.
- Auto Erotica: Nathan and Ingrid do it in her car on the way home after Thanksgiving dinner at his parents'. Since everyone uses self-driving cars, this isn't a problem.
- Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: When Nathan takes a look around Lakeview, he comes across a random group of bagpipe players.
- A Glitch in the Matrix: Luke shows Nathan a glitch with one of the storage cabinets which will generate buns after breakfast has finished.
- Hospital Gurney Scene: When Nathan is rolled into the hospital after his car accident.
- Idiot Hair: When uploading Nathan's avatar, Nora leaves in a cowlick in his avatar's hair. But she quietly removes it once she gets to know him a little.
- Incurable Cough of Death: Used to communicate that Nora's dad is seriously ill during his introduction. We later find out he's got a serious condition known as "Vape Lung."
- Interrupted Suicide: Nathan attempts this but Nora's impassioned pleas to get him to give the digital afterlife a chance make him reconsider.
- A Little Something We Call "Rock and Roll": Nathan helps his niece with her homework for "Classical Dance". The routine's song? The 2010 house hit "Like a G6" by Far East Movement.
- The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Nora calls Nathan, the code guy, out for choosing his dog's name and the street he grew up on as his Horizon password.
- Rule of Funny: The struggle for Nathan's life and his at the hospital would play out very differently if it happened in real life and not a Romantic Comedy.
- Scenery Censor: After their Auto Erotica, Ingrid is shown topless but the important parts are covered by her or Nathan's arms.
- Toilet Humour:
- As Lakeview is the "perfect" afterlife, Nathan discovers that no matter where he aims, his stream always lands in the urinal. He proceeds to have some fun wiggling the stream back and forth, running around the bathroom, and eventually jump-roping the stream.
- The digital avatars are programmed with the totally unnecessary need to fart. Their farts can be programmed to smell like cologne or fresh cinnamon rolls.
- Your Head A-Splode: The scanner blows up Nathan's head after the upload is completed.
