{"id":4134,"date":"2020-06-01T22:57:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T22:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2020-06-01T22:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T22:58:53","slug":"upload-vs-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/upload-vs-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Upload vs. Space Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you sick of all the news about the pandemic and the riots over the George Floyd killing? I am. I thought I&#8217;d make a recommendation for a couple of television series I&#8217;m enjoying these days: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upload_(TV_series)\">Upload<\/a>, on Amazon Prime and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Force_(TV_series)\">Space Force<\/a>, on Netflix. In case you&#8217;re not familiar with one or both, both are science fiction comedies. Maybe you should just relax and enjoy these.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Upload<\/em> the main character Nathan is near death so his girlfriend buys him a spot in a ritzy digital afterlife, a heaven of sorts, where his personality, memory, and soul(?) are uploaded right before death. They can still communicate through a digital medium. Nathan has a real life &#8220;angel,&#8221; an employee of the company that manages the digital afterlife who tends to his needs, and romantic sparks fly between them, but he is totally dependent on his shallow girlfriend to keep paying the bills. It&#8217;s kind of creepy\/funny and pushes the envelope on sexual content, but has a sweet side, too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Space Force<\/em> is more of a wacky comedy starring Steve Carell as a four-star general put in charge of the new military branch Space Force. I&#8217;ve only watched two episodes of this one. The first episode was only mediocre, but the second episode was really funny, I thought. John Malkovich is an unlikely co-star.<\/p>\n<p>On a lark I thought I&#8217;d check out the Google Trends on these two shows. I had to adjust the time frame to get a balanced view. Prior to May 28 <em>Upload<\/em> dominated Google searches since <em>Space Force<\/em> hadn&#8217;t debuted. After May 28 <em>Space Force<\/em> dominated since Netflix promoted it heavily. I also had to add the phrase &#8220;TV show&#8221; after the titles when I did the comparison to avoid confusion with non-TV meanings. Here&#8217;s the graph. I don&#8217;t see any significance to the spread, but it&#8217;s fun to speculate. The grey area didn&#8217;t have enough data (i.e. searches) to compare.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4135 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Upload-Trend-422x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Upload-Trend-422x300.jpg 422w, https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Upload-Trend-624x444.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Upload-Trend.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you sick of all the news about the pandemic and the riots over the George Floyd killing? I am. I thought I&#8217;d make a recommendation for a couple of television series I&#8217;m enjoying these days: Upload, on Amazon Prime and Space Force, on Netflix. 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