Glitch: The Impossible Triangle
October 26, 2016 8:59 AM - Season 1, Episode 5 - Subscribe
Sarah, James and Kate try to navigate their complex love triangle, grappling with a mixture of anger, grief and relief. Meanwhile, Charlie and Kirstie decide to seek answers about Charlie's past.
In the wake of the dead literally rising from their graves, the characters continue to focus on their personal and interpersonal dramas instead. Is that an Australian thing, or maybe even just an Aussie film/tv thing?
There are huge societal/legal questions here that I would love to see the series address; at the same time, I appreciate that the show has decided the focus here is small scale: a small town, a handful of revived, and the personal implications of that. But the show is edging into some of it - there are questions of property and ownership and relationship status that are inevitably creeping into the narrative. I would love to see a legal drama set in a world where this happens with some commonality and the lawyers specialize in taking cases that address these questions.
Charlie's personal history was very well done, I think. There was no jumping up and down about it, just a slowly emerging understanding of who he is.
posted by nubs at 9:32 AM on October 26, 2016 [2 favorites]
There are huge societal/legal questions here that I would love to see the series address; at the same time, I appreciate that the show has decided the focus here is small scale: a small town, a handful of revived, and the personal implications of that. But the show is edging into some of it - there are questions of property and ownership and relationship status that are inevitably creeping into the narrative. I would love to see a legal drama set in a world where this happens with some commonality and the lawyers specialize in taking cases that address these questions.
Charlie's personal history was very well done, I think. There was no jumping up and down about it, just a slowly emerging understanding of who he is.
posted by nubs at 9:32 AM on October 26, 2016 [2 favorites]
This episode was the weakest one of the season by far. I don't care about the ridiculous love triangle (seriously? Kate was DEAD. She has no right to be such an asshole about her husband moving on).
The Charlie subplot was way more interesting. He's sort of been ignored so far.
posted by a strong female character at 5:02 PM on October 26, 2016
The Charlie subplot was way more interesting. He's sort of been ignored so far.
posted by a strong female character at 5:02 PM on October 26, 2016
The Sarah/James/Kate scene needed to happen - the show needed to resolve that tension. The scene went on far too long, however. And I kinda get the place where it was coming from for Kate, having been in the awkward place of having had a relationship with someone, breaking up, and seeing them start to date someone else in the circle of friends. The emotions are...weird at times.
Was still wanting to see James make a clear statement about the fact that he loves them both, but: (a) he grieved Kate and moved forward, and that he isn't quite the same person Kate would remember - he has two more years of lived experiences and emotions she wasn't there for; (b) as a result of (a), he and Sarah are now together and that's the way it is; and (c) Kate has some shit to figure out of her own, namely the fact that she's back and the weight of that. Give Kate the lake shack, or something, and start figuring out how you all move forward from here.
posted by nubs at 11:16 AM on October 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
Was still wanting to see James make a clear statement about the fact that he loves them both, but: (a) he grieved Kate and moved forward, and that he isn't quite the same person Kate would remember - he has two more years of lived experiences and emotions she wasn't there for; (b) as a result of (a), he and Sarah are now together and that's the way it is; and (c) Kate has some shit to figure out of her own, namely the fact that she's back and the weight of that. Give Kate the lake shack, or something, and start figuring out how you all move forward from here.
posted by nubs at 11:16 AM on October 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
I didn't mean to imply that Kate's feelings were wrong or unjustified. I'm sure anyone feels a mix of strong difficult emotions seeing their ex move on to someone else. But I think her actions and expectations of James were way out of line. She says something to James like "But I'm back now", as if she expects him to abandon his wife and come back to her.
posted by a strong female character at 11:46 AM on October 27, 2016
posted by a strong female character at 11:46 AM on October 27, 2016
Oh, yeah, I get it. I didn't appreciate the whiplash on that front either; in an earlier episode she said something to James about the fact that he had two years to adjust to all of this; for her it was an emotional shock but that she understood. So it did bug me from that perspective.
posted by nubs at 11:59 AM on October 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by nubs at 11:59 AM on October 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
That was some grade A drama. I don't even being in James' shoes. I don't think Kate has a real logical leg to stand on, but emotionally I'm right there with her. At the same time Sarah earned all the rage she's having, except maybe putting an APB out on Kate might be going too far.
Paddy is just phenomenal, but wow his white descendants are dicks.
So I guess Elishia didn't immediately recognize John Doe. It was more of an immediate physical attraction when we first saw them.
posted by numaner at 3:42 PM on January 22, 2018
Paddy is just phenomenal, but wow his white descendants are dicks.
So I guess Elishia didn't immediately recognize John Doe. It was more of an immediate physical attraction when we first saw them.
posted by numaner at 3:42 PM on January 22, 2018
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I think they're going to screw us on the actual explanation for what the hell is going on, at least in season one.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:04 AM on October 26, 2016