Amazon has a new show about a subject near and dear to our hearts. It's called "Upload" and there's a trailer at that site. I watched it and concluded this:

1. Someone's finally tackling uploading head-on! About time!
2. Being that it's by the The Office and Parks and Rec guy, it'll probably be a funny show.
3. But, dear Celestia, there are so many obvious points of failure here. Paying for things within the world? People showing up that you don't want? Y'all motherbuckers need a Celestia. It's so much more interesting when you get rid of scarcity and then try to create conflict.
4. But, for all that, if anything is going to put the bug in people's ear that digital uploading is a not-bad thing and doesn't kill you, I see that as a positive.

The main problem I have with tv and movies that attempt something like this is that in their effort to make it as accessible as possible is the scope ends up being too limited. You're spending the rest of your foreseeable future in a hotel. I mean it's a really nice 5 star resort kinda thing but it's still rather limited. It's a virtual space, the sky is the limit in this situation, you could potentially make any space you could imagine. The end of The Good Place also suffered from this, they make it to the good place and can do literally anything they could desire and it's still kept fairly tame. As much as I hate it I have to give Ready Player One credit and say that the oasis was fully realized, visually at least. It is what I would think of when I think of a great shared simulated space in tv and film. That's not to say I think anything less of a piece of entertainment that does this, after all, it needs a viewership outside of people who care about this kind of thing, I just think it's wasted potential. I'll still probably watch Upload though, it looks like it could be a good time.

I was told about this, and ranted in response.
It looks like because it's a sitcom and marketed at an audience that barely knows what science fiction is, it goes for the simplest, least thought-provoking gags. (Eg. the hero clicks a button to select which background landscape is outside his generic hotel room, and is told hotel-bar drinks cost extra.) Being a live-action show also limits what exotic scenery or characters it can do. So, the show looks like it would irritate me more than entertain me.
I liken this to the FiO story "Heaven Is Terrifying": it addresses the "is it really you or just a copy" question in such good detail that I don't want to read or write more about it and would rather move on to other topics. Having a TV show that's mostly about how a virtual world is wacky, is like making a Star Trek series and then taking multiple episodes for anyone to get on a starship. (Oh wait, didn't that just happen?)
Interesting question: How could you present more complex SF concepts to an audience that isn't already familiar with SF?
In my own writing I have a scene where someone wakes up in a hotel room in virtual-land... but she's greeted by a griffin, then goes downstairs to meet up with a porn star to fire rayguns at goblins in a giant cavern with a thousand-story skyscraper. And that's on the way to their real adventure. That's after the uploading experience has already been introduced and starts to become routine. My reaction to the "Upload" trailer was to add a scene where someone uploads, and just wants an ordinary apartment without turning into a centaur or anything.

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With CG, you could make a lot of fancy things. But the point is to not underestimate your audience. If you introduce them to uploading and then present them with strange things like griffins, they should follow along.

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If this show exceeds my expectations, maybe it'll do that -- start off with the simple gags and quickly grow to do more complex topics. Probably no transformation or really exotic scenery, though.
I'm reminded of a Star Trek: TNG episode ("Rascals"?), where Picard and others get hit with a cosmic wedgie that turns them all into children. Doc Crusher confirms that yes, they should expect a greatly extended lifespan with no real drawbacks. And they all, including elderly Picard, turn this gift down. In-universe it makes much more sense that they'd accept, but out-of-universe the producers were obligated to keep the same actors, so nothing major could happen. So no turning the "Upload" star into a pony or anything, unless it's for a one-episode event.