If you asked yourself if Koreans have it more crazy than “The Squid Game”, the short answer is “of course they do” and the long answer is that the best television minds in South Korea are certainly busy trying to surpass the huge hit that proved to the world the power of the huge television industry that has grown in the Asian country , on its way to becoming one of the largest in the world. The massive international success of “The Squid Game” caused Netflix to increase the production rate of its Korean content division, and since then not a month goes by without a new hit that tries to mix horror and horror with kimchi.
Now it’s the turn of “Glitch,” which appeared on Netflix this weekend (and is called “Anomalyot” in Israel, to distinguish it from the Australian horror series of the same name that is accessible to Netflix subscribers), and it reinforces the trend that is evident in Western culture: if you thought that Korean K-pop was the greatest thing to come out From there since Samsung, you haven’t seen enough K-drama yet. As the Koreans like, in “Anomaly” they also mix quite a few genres: it is a drama-thriller-MDB-comedy series that refuses to decide which of the above it wants to be more, looks for moments like a number of different series merged, and that’s not even problem. Because she is Korean.
The world now expects strange things to come from South Korea, and South Korea is happy to deliver them: “Glitch/Anomaly” is about a young girl (the great discovery Jeon Yoo-bin) who not only has her boyfriend disappear after a strange light appears, she also starts seeing an alien who follows her everywhere and then meets a young, hipster group of UFO researchers (led by K-pop star Nana from “After School”), then it’s not clear if she’s insanely paranoid or if any of this is really happening or if she’s just Korean and that’s how it usually is with them. The whole series is a huge trashy nod to the paranoid alien conspiracy trend of the nineties, and watching it is an alien experience in itself. What can I say, more fun than going crazy.
>> “Anomalyot/Glitch”, one season, 10 episodes, now on Netflix