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Curled up on the sofa.
Very Watchable, If Annoying That Viewers Have to Wait for the Other Shoe to Drop, as Well
Revenge is a dish best served cold--though, cold or otherwise, it is not usually served incomplete.
Whatever else can be said about The Glory, the most important thing to know going into it (if you're watching in a timely manner) is that there is going to be a Part 2 that has not come out yet...and that, perhaps, you should wait for that before starting this. Because, as things stand with only Part 1 at hand, the hiatus only serves to unavoidably expose the otherwise mostly tolerable flaws in its storytelling.
The show is entertaining enough, aided in great part by the short-ish length of each episode, which forces the slow unraveling of the overall story to feel like it's constantly moving--even as, 8 episodes in, nothing seems to be happening. Except that also many things seem to be happening; and some of those things may actually matter to the plot. Assuming that the plot is what the show seems to tell us that it is.
Which, if the show were complete (or still coming out regularly), would presumably be fine, because any gaps or loose threads or seeming incongruities could be paused long enough to wait for the rest of the story to (we hope) explain or justify or minimize them as it slow-burns its way (again, we hope) to its climax and conclusion. But, as it stands, there are A LOT of loose threads, and a lot of story beats that don't quite line up, and a lot of story details that feel extraneous to the central plot--and, because it does nothing to act as a chapter closing that pulls any of these things into even a loose kind of wrap-up, Part 1 doesn't feel like a deliberate Part 1 so much as just where it happened to have its halfway point. And so we are left somewhat unsure about what we've just watched, rather than anticipating what could be coming next.
Which is a shame, because--whatever its storytelling flaws or overall quality--The Glory's first 8 episodes are very, very watchable, more than a little entertaining, and often compelling, both in spite of and (ironically) because of those storytelling flaws that make the hiatus so frustrating.
So, yes, this seems very much to be worth the watch--but we're not going to know until Part 2 is out, and we see if the ends really do justify the means.
Whatever else can be said about The Glory, the most important thing to know going into it (if you're watching in a timely manner) is that there is going to be a Part 2 that has not come out yet...and that, perhaps, you should wait for that before starting this. Because, as things stand with only Part 1 at hand, the hiatus only serves to unavoidably expose the otherwise mostly tolerable flaws in its storytelling.
The show is entertaining enough, aided in great part by the short-ish length of each episode, which forces the slow unraveling of the overall story to feel like it's constantly moving--even as, 8 episodes in, nothing seems to be happening. Except that also many things seem to be happening; and some of those things may actually matter to the plot. Assuming that the plot is what the show seems to tell us that it is.
Which, if the show were complete (or still coming out regularly), would presumably be fine, because any gaps or loose threads or seeming incongruities could be paused long enough to wait for the rest of the story to (we hope) explain or justify or minimize them as it slow-burns its way (again, we hope) to its climax and conclusion. But, as it stands, there are A LOT of loose threads, and a lot of story beats that don't quite line up, and a lot of story details that feel extraneous to the central plot--and, because it does nothing to act as a chapter closing that pulls any of these things into even a loose kind of wrap-up, Part 1 doesn't feel like a deliberate Part 1 so much as just where it happened to have its halfway point. And so we are left somewhat unsure about what we've just watched, rather than anticipating what could be coming next.
Which is a shame, because--whatever its storytelling flaws or overall quality--The Glory's first 8 episodes are very, very watchable, more than a little entertaining, and often compelling, both in spite of and (ironically) because of those storytelling flaws that make the hiatus so frustrating.
So, yes, this seems very much to be worth the watch--but we're not going to know until Part 2 is out, and we see if the ends really do justify the means.
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