Review of Glitch

Glitch (2015–2019)
6/10
Fair entertainment if you like soap-opera style melodrama. Horrible "sci-fi."
2 July 2018
I only watched Season 1.

It started strong, then quickly devolved into soap opera melodrama and nonsense posing as pseudo-science.

Good points: Interesting mystery at the beginning, and some good drama resulting from people coming back from the dead. Well acted.

Bad points: The ridiculous nonsense they try to pass off as science seems only thrown in there as a cheap prop to play their dramas against. They don't even pretend to try to explain anything in any way that is even coherent, much less believable. Every character who supposedly knows something about what is going on refuses to say anything about it beyond cryptic gibberish. The few crumbs they kind of 'explain' toward the end are either incredibly stupid or so vague and generic as to be meaningless. This is not the actual explanation they give (no spoiler) but it is on this level of quality: "We can regenerate a perfect, living, functional human body from a single cell using this special chemical. But to make it a real person we have to regenerate their memories by whistling at them in the right frequency. And the universe thinks reanimating bodies is wrong, so it's going to spontaneously reanimate some other bodies to fix the problem."

If you can ignore that level of lousy excuse for an explanation and just want to enjoy a good drama, you might enjoy this show. Most of it is actually pretty good.
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