This new CNN/Max documentary dutifully outlines the meteoric success and sudden collapse of the popular game show app.
If you're at all interested in technology and pop culture, there's a good chance that, back in 2018, you put your life on hold twice a day to pull your smartphone out of your pocket and play a round of HQ Trivia — a live, online game show where players attempted to answer a string of multiple-choice questions to win a cash prize. Hosted by a previously unknown but supremely charismatic comedian named Scott Rogowsky, HQ Trivia felt like a party as much as it did a game show.
Directed by Salima Koroma , Glitch should prove at least moderately interesting to anyone who was hooked on the game. Heck, it may even make you nostalgic for a time when Twitter was still fun, one-time HQ Trivia guest host Dwayne Johnson could do no wrong, and people would lose their minds over winning just a few bucks from a live trivia app. But the documentary also feels, to some extent, like a final chance for some of those heavily involved with HQ to cash in on a long since faded fad.
Glitch does a fine job showing the mania surrounding HQ Trivia during the few months when it went supernova. Offering up supporting facts on screen in the graphical style of the game show's multiple choice questions is a nice touch. But once the downward trajectory starts, it feels like the viewer is only getting pieces of the big picture that you're meant to assemble yourself.
The Documentary, Like the HQ Trivia App Itself, Fizzles Out Because HQ didn't just implode one day, instead just petering out, Koroma also feels unsure about how to end her film.
Ultimately, there's no grand statement to be made, and what we're left with is a pretty standard tech industry story about a company that takes off and then, largely thanks to poor planning and bad behavior, flames out — a tale we've been told several times over since the dot-com boom of the late 90s. If you were an HQtie back in the day, you might find watching Glitch to be 90 minutes well spent.
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