Glory review: Divyenndu, Suvinder Vicky’s loose and scatter-shot show wastes its potential | Web-series News
5 min readUpdated: May 1, 2026 01:34 PM IST Glory review: Somewhere in Haryana, there are two brothers with a conflicted relationship with their father, circling around sweaty boxing rings, mustachioed khap leaders, ‘honour killings’: familiar elements in an seven-episode show called Glory, whose meaning is explained to us as Love, Sacrifice and Pain, in as many words. That little jerk you get every time a character with a strong Haryanvi accent says ‘glory’ never leaves us: it’s almost like the writers of the show want to convince themselves, as well as us, of the title they chose, because it never once sounds like a word that would come naturally to the key dramatis personae in Shaktigarh, the fictional town where ‘Glory’ is set. And that faint unease never goes away completely, even when we do come upon parts of the show which feel like they could have emerged from the ground, rather than a show constructed in a writer’s room. And one following the dictum which all shows these days faithfully hew to: there …
