Kpopmap Reviews: To Believe Or Not To Believe, That Is The Question & "Glitch" Gives Us A Terrific Answer

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Jeon YeoBeen and NaNa's highly awaited sci-fi drama "Glitch" has finally landed on Netflix, taking us for a spin of faith, friendship, and fantasy through the prismatic lens of two young women who experience a deferred coming-of-age, egged on by otherworldly forces that mirror fate. Directed by an excellent woman, Roh Deok, and driven by strong female characters at its core, "Glitch" is inherently raw and unhinged yet intricately weaved with dark mysteries and dazzling emotions.

Yet, the theatrical extraterrestrial flourishes are not what make this drama so incredibly groundbreaking. Its true essence is brought forth in the central representation of a potential WLW relationship, correlating queerness with, quite literally, living in a whole different world. However, this subtext does not serve to overpower the fascinating theme of alien abductions but instead, underlines it. "Glitch" is food for thought, and we have been well-fed.

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T/W: Suicide.

Kpopmap Reviews: To Believe Or Not To Believe, That Is The Question & "Glitch" Gives Us A Terrific Answer

Netflix

For those who might not know, "Glitch" is Netflix's latest original offering from South Korea that tells the story of Hong JiHyo (Jeon YeoBeen), an ordinary woman who is plagued by the vision of aliens in baseball helmets but believes them to be hallucinations, and Huh BoRa, a content creator and alien enthusiast who's chasing her next big story. BoRa also happens to be JiHyo's long-lost friend but more on that later. When JiHyo's boyfriend SiGuk (Lee DongHwi) suddenly goes missing, JiHyo is convinced that it was the doing of aliens. She takes to the internet, as one does, to try and look for instances of alien