Life's a Glitch with Julien Bam

First of all: The poduction (sets, camera, director etc.) are very good in my opinion. Really nice to watch and with a lot of quality (as you already have known from the teams YouTube activities).

But the story and the acting, which is totally fine for Youtube short films, ist not enough for a real netflix series. And I have to rate this as a series.

So overall: Production good; acting and story not really good --> Definition of a 'meh' series.

This series has no depth at all. The characters are written very flat, their acting makes them even flatter. Is comedy really so hard for Germans? The jokes mostly miss. Most attempts at being funny just ended up being cringe worthy.

Horrible writing and even worse acting. The characters are all very linear and there is no real character development until the very end, where you get the obvious twist you get in every outer body experience movie. The jokes are very on the nose. The trailer seemed interesting. The story is pretty much based on the music video Freaky Friday with Chris Brown and Lil Dicky. The famous guy wakes up in the mit so famous guys body. It's sad that the 3 minutes music video told more and was more entertaining than a 4 episodes series.

Yes, this is just a German youtuber who made a Netflix show. Yes, this is similar to his youtube style. But Julien Bam is not just any youtuber, he is not like any of the cliche influencers out there, his work are qualitatively always insane.

In that regard, I don't quite get the imdb rating. Sure, this is not the best show you will ever see but it is certainly enjoyable.

Story-wise Julien's crew did not reinvent the wheel. Some kind of inter-dimensional disturbance shenanigans makes Julien and Joon travel through dimensions and swap bodies with their other selves. They are confronted with a different reality and face hardships while trying to get back to their original lives. In the meantime, weird things happen, from the gangster rappers to a new sister to LARP players to your obligatory quantum physics professor.

Yeah, yeah, you're right: the plot isn't out of the ordinary. But that isn't what this show is about. It's rather about the little ideas surrounding the show and the humor. Especially if you grew up with Ju and Joon's videos, many jokes will feel very nostalgic to you. And man, that German gangster language just keeps cracking me up. Wallah! Amenakoi!

For me it was really entertaining. I had so many good laughs and it is produced to perfection, especially considering the circumstances. Its not easy to put this one into an existing genre-box and that's what makes it so special.