India, May 1 -- Would it be too big an indictment if I say that Glory exemplifies everything that is wrong with the Indian streaming space? The show, based on a promising premise, squanders its potential, resorts to tired tropes, leaves gaping plot holes the size of Alaska, and fails to fully utilise the brilliance of its performers. Glory is not a horrible show. There have been several worse this year alone. But it is a frustrating one that wastes a good setting, great actors, and some crisp writing at the altar of slickness and being larger-than-life. In the end, Glory reduces itself to a run-of-the-mill Indian streaming show, the kind of which exists a dime a dozen in the ever-so-crowded OTT space.

Set in the fictitious Shaktigarh, th...