La vida es una anomalía, con Julien Bam

I have watched weeks worth of short movies and I have never been less entertained in my life. This production truly had nothing good about it. The acting, cast, script, plot and music was horrible and unbecoming. I actually root for every German streamer production, but Life's A Glitch with Julien Bam actually threw us back. Please Netflix Germany, start making better decisions.

First of all, it doesn't make sense to call this a series when there are only 4 episodes. If anything, this should have at least been a movie.

Second, you're not missing anything with this series.

It's a major misconception that if you are a successful internet star, you would have the experience and talent to direct a television series and act at a level that it would be released by one of the biggest streaming services.

Third, the entire show is predictable, not funny, largely cringe, and poorly written. Also, it feels like several YouTube videos were randomly strung together, so the target audience is the same people who watch the clips of influencer Julien Bam, who just wanted to give space to all his ideas with this poor attempt to establish himself in the big, wide world of television. But that doesn't work at all when every, really every cliché is fulfilled.

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.

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!

A series as long as a movie. Not very exciting and the humor doesn't work at all in the first episode. It got better towards the end, but still a very boring series. I don't know if a second season is planned, if so, I'm not looking forward to it. And the end: I don't know if it should be an open ending, either way it doesn't work.