STACK #157 Nov 2017

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GL I TCH: SEASON 2

STACK SET VISIT

Brammall is quick to praise the heightened genre of Glitch and its foundations in reality – despite involving people that have come back from the dead. He adds that those he’s spoken to have all liked and responded to the show’s high concept because it’s not about zombies. “For me, [the concept] is epitomised in the first season when

the second season. What I’m trying to keep on top of for this season is just how compressed everything is – there’s very little time to work out a strategy. It’s responding to the circumstances as they happen and learning the rules of this thing. Why are they back? We still don’t know that. And the nature of the invisible boundary – what is that?” Although remaining tight-lipped

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As the small town cop bouncing between impossible situations, Patrick Brammall feels like a human pinball. Words Scott Hocking

S ergeant James Hayes (Patrick Brammall) is living every man’s worst nightmare. Not only is his wife, Kate, back from the dead, he’s now married to her best friend. He also has the mystery of the recently risen dead to solve, as well as dealing with the guilt over having killed another police officer and covering it up. For a small town cop, he’s in way over his head. “It’s a bit like being a pinball, bouncing between everything,” says Brammall when STACK meets with him – in full police uniform – on the Melbourne set of Glitch . “James is pinballing between all the people who have returned and risen, and trying to figure out what’s going on with them. And also trying to reconcile the fact that he’s a new father, and that Sarah possibly died just after childbirth. Did something happen there, or is she just acting strangely because of postnatal depression? “James and Kate are now, more than ever, in an impossible relationship,” he continues. “He

loves both of these women and he was never forced to let go of the first one. Shared grief is what drew James and

Sarah together, so there’s a real love for both women in his life. “The first season it was James coming to terms with this new reality, strange as it is. This season

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is more of the same, but more complicated and more difficult for him to keep a hold of. He’s very much trying to control and contain everything and keep everybody safe, and he can’t do that.”

• Glitch: Season 2 is out Nov 29

James meets Kate. That’s an impossible situation –

on the last two points, he does reveal that viewers will finally get some answers and that several new characters will have significant roles to play. “There’s a new guy who shows up on the scene that Kate meets, and James is very stirred up about that. There’s someone who works for Noregard who comes in as a central character in this season, and there’s a character who is a malevolent force in the way Vic was in season one.”

It’s responding to the circumstances as they happen and learning the rules of this thing

somebody you love that has died and you’ve said goodbye to. As one does as an actor, you piece it together with your imagination, or with emotional scraps that fit. That particular scene was my audition scene, and I almost didn’t audition for the part because it just seemed like an impossible scene, but I think it was executed well, I was really pleased with it.”

Brammall notes that the short timeframe in which the story unfolds presents an additional challenge for his character. “The first season was about five days, and it’s the same for

GENRE DOWN UNDER

CLEVERMAN This indigenous-themed series, in which a hairy mythological race co-exists with humankind, is clever, man.

THE KETTERING INCIDENT Strange things happen in the titular Tasmanian town in this Aussie answer to Twin Peaks .

FARSCAPE This ambitious co-production with the US features Jim Henson-created aliens and a sentient spacecraft.

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