1. Interesting concept…David slays Goliath and gets the keys to the kingdom…whether or not he actually wants it or knows what to do with it.
2. Very biblical…the main character “king” keeps writing his memoirs as they happen, as if he’s writing the bible…the city looks like a version of sci-fi Chicago.
3. Complex script…war hero saves king’s son, king gives hero new position of power, son of king not only disowned by his father for being gay, but now is in cahoots with king’s nemesis…who also is his financial adviser….king has a bastard child with the woman he loves, which happens to not be his wife, the queen, who likes to keep “out of politics”…war hero is after princess…and doesn’t fit into his new role, but then his brother dies in the war, and there is a very dramatic surrender scene… it’s all very complicated…but with great production value.
4. Might be a little too deep for Sunday nights, but….
5. …since it is followed by Celebrity Apprentice… if you get in too deep, you can always laugh at Tom Green and Dennis Rodman (until they get kicked off, that is…)
NBC – Sunday at 7.00pm
Might last if the budget wasn’t so high.
UPDATE: April 7, 2009
‘Kings’ exiled to Saturdays by NBC
