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What is Cyberpunk?

Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.

Cyberpunk characteristics include:

Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.

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[TV] William Gibson cameo in Amazon Prime's Upload - season 3, episode 5 (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago by Hammerjack to c/cyberpunk

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah i really like the tone change in the show, Greg Daniels is doing a great job letting the Cyberpunk creep into the show while still making the humor in the show work.