Kings – quick update

Just for anyone who might wonder, the show (click here for my post about its pilot), whilst miraculously still not formally cancelled, has been moved to this summer, where its piss-poor ratings will look a little less shitty next to exclusively reruns of more popular and far less interesting shows. Also for anyone who might wonder, every single episode that’s aired before they moved it has delivered on the promise of the pilot. I watch ungodly amounts of American television, and of all the current shows, this is my favourite by far. (Even Pushing Daisies is a far cry behind, though I will admit that’s probably due to it being less up my alley genre-wise than Kings). Of the six episodes aired so far, only the one failed to leave me completely overwhelmed, and even that one was a cut above most other shows I currently watch, especially now that Battlestar is done. I need to go to giants of Television Past to find suitable shows to compare Kings to, but I won’t, as it will just crank your after this post unreasonably high expectations even higher than they already are. Suffice to say that if good dialogue, an interesting world, compelling acting and lots of delicious politics and intrigue with a very well done layer of the religious and spiritual sprinkled in sounds made for you – not to mention Ian Mc-bloody-Shane owning every television screen he has ever appeared on – Kings is a show you should go watch, and a show you should go watch now. Though of course you can’t, because they booted it to mid-June. So catch it this summer, or get it on DVD once it is cancelled as these ambitious and impeccably well done shows always are. I implore you.