Glory, a boxing whodunnit set in the fictitious Shaktigarh, begins with a promising premise but squanders its potential, resorting to tired tropes and leaving gaping plot holes. The show, starring Divyenndu and Pulkit Samrat, fails to fully utilise the brilliance of its performers and reduces itself to a run-of-the-mill Indian streaming show.
The show's world-building is smart, but it takes a turn for the worse as it uses every trope that crime dramas on Indian streaming shows have used over the past decade. The show is predictable, and anyone who has watched or read enough of these can figure out who the killer is and what the motivation is behind it all before the credits for episode 1 begin rolling.
Despite good performances from Suvinder Vicky, Divyenndu, and Pulkit Samrat, the narrative is so pedestrian that the acting cannot fully save it. The show's conclusion is also one of the most annoying in recent times, leaving many threads untied.
Glory is a good example of 'what could have been', which has been the story of Indian OTT since the pandemic. Makers have sacrificed quality over panache, and Glory continues on that path.
