The ABC’s first-time decision to provide an all-you-can-eat Glitch buffet on iView matches these staples in many aspects, and we’re encouraged to appreciate these distinct human relationships – from the interracial and homosexual to the involuntary polyamorous - framed in a modern Australian setting. What cult behemoths like The Sopranos, Orange is the new Black and True Blood do so well is nurture their characters’ nuances against an addictive setting. It’s just that it could have been better.
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Where steamy clouds eat into the full moon and the faces of Victorian buildings are splashed with street-lamp light. The fictional town of Yoorana is the ideal Australian backdrop for the gothic theme the type of place where the incessant clicking of cicadas stitches together the drowsy night. Unusually for Australian television, the production quality trumps characterisation.
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Patrick Brammall, Rodger Corser and Genevieve O’Reilly star in the ABC series Glitch. Coffee or tea? Left or right? As if it matters.
People pass the time enjoying the choices life provides. It is a missed opportunity given the show’s subject matter and I frequently wondered what reincarnation illuminated about the human condition for each of the undead.īy contrast, American Horror Story: Freak show’s Fräulein Elsa (Jessica Lange) shares her nihilistic core with her audience: “Fate, destiny, luck, the presence of man. For example, no-one muses about life, death and the vulnerable nature of the human experience. Yet most of the cookie-cutter personas in Glitch rarely stretch beyond their rigid dialogue. Some members of his resurrected posse fare better, especially the hard-arsed God-fearing mother who has lost her child and the rough-as-guts teen girl who was brutally murdered in the eighties. Hayes is clearly a good man with a strong moral compass, so it’s unfortunate that he’s not that compelling as Yoorana’s small-town zombie whisperer. However, while Draper’s dalliance with his mistress fractures his seemingly sound character, Hayes’s predicament is merely a tool for the forced cliffhanger ending, particularly as his reaction to his dead wife’s re-emergence is lacklustre at best, and the love-triangle moments quickly go down the soap-opera rabbit hole. Flashbacks of an unfaithful Don Draper returning to his fifties nuclear family at the conclusion of Mad Men’s pilot immediately spring to mind. Hayes has moved on and impregnated Kate’s best friend Sarah (Emily Barclay). The series’ clincher is that one of the undead is Hayes’s wife Kate (Emma Booth) her life claimed by breast cancer two years earlier. And then there’s that mysterious and volatile man with the sinister glare on the loose.
Little do the two realise that the hundred-year-dead town mayor has gone rogue. With his partner in cadaver-hiding crime, Dr Elishia Glass, in tow, he does his best to keep the town’s undead influx under wraps. Glitch begins when Hayes (Patrick Brammell) discovers five bewildered mud-clad people wandering around a moonlit graveyard, having just clawed their way out of their graves. And it’s a shame, given Glitch’s slick treatment, stunning scenery and gothic atmosphere. Both the mortals and the corpses in Glitch can be drop-dead boring. They don’t provide me with the escape that I’m yearning for. Unfortunately for ABC’s new six-part series Glitch, Senior Constable James Hayes and the clan of undead that turn his humdrum country town upside down don’t resonate.
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