Kingdom 2019 Series Review

in #review5 years ago

I was searching for a new series to start and although i prefer something with a lot of episodes or seasons, Kingdom caught my eye. All of this happened yesterday morning and today i finished it so you can imagine how i spent most of my time :P

General Info That Nobody Cares

Kingdom is a Netflix Original Series that released in 25 January 2019 and made in South Korea. Some of the stars are: Doona Bae,  Greg Chun, Jun-Ho Heo and note that it is based on a webcomic! Season 1 has 6 episodes that are 45 minutes each and the genre of this show is Thriller, Zombie-Apocalyptic, Action, Period.   

Plot 

The whole series takes place in an era that kingdoms are thriving and as you can imagine most of the fights are solved with swords and bows. There are some guns too but since it's the beginning of them just a few people can handle them and are skilled enough to use them.

Inside the kingdom and to be more exact to king's palace something terrible happened. The King is ill and doctors are there to make him regain consciousness and rule his kingdom. Something feels off though, as nobody else is allowed to see the King even his son, the crown prince.

The son is keep trying to see his father but the queen, who is the same age as him or even younger, don't let him. Ofc that's happening for a reason and the main reason is because she is pregnant with a child. Now you may wonder "what the hell is he talking about? he is still the oldest son". That's not the case though, cause we need to make everything more complicated. 

So what's happening is that the crown prince's mother was a concubine that is now dead, so the new queen wants power for herself. Not only that but her father is the king's chief investigator who also craves for power and wanna find ways to charge the crown prince for treason. 

The King isn't alive but isn't dead, he has become a zombie so technically he is still living and that's why the prince can't become the king. Thus a journey begins with the crown prince and his personal bodyguard to find the doctor of his father and discover the truth about the zombie disease. Soon a zombie outbreak erupts and you can expect some marvelous and gory scenes in this zombie apocalyptic show.

What I Liked

I liked so many things about this series that i don't know where to begin. First of all i love Korean Films and Shows. I general love Asian cinematography but in my opinion Korea is the America of the movies and series in Asia. Sometimes even greater than America. Thus they know how to make a great film.

Secondly, the "medieval" era or whatever era/period this takes place is quite unique for a zombie genre. We have seen many zombie apocalyptic movies and shows like world war z, walking dead and even a Korean one that's called Train to Busan, so we are familiar with this type. We are extremely familiar with it in today's era but not in the one that the series take place. Now we have to see how people can fight these zombies with swords,bows and ordinary tools and how they can deal with this situation given the complete lack of technology they have.

Also, the acting is very good, the fight scenes are amazing and different in every aspect as you will see fights in different fields, with different numbers and different weapons. I liked the part that we have 2 different things that make the plot. The first one is the game of thrones kinda thing that we try to figure out what will happen in the palace and if the crown prince will be the king and the second one is the zombie outbreak. How everyone will deal with it, how exactly the king turned into a zombie and what will be the catastrophic effects they will bring?!

My Rating

It generally has very high ratings like 8/10, 8.5/10 and i can say i pretty much agree with them so my rating will be 8.5/10 as well. There also gonna be a season 2, it's announced so it's official but it's unknown when exactly it will come out!

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funny i saw this a couple days ago :) i can't imagine what the subtitles are going to be like because there's a lot of korean details and nuance that people are probably not gonna understand. the actors are big time celebrities in korea, but for some reason i felt like this wasn't their best. i liked the storyline and the twists but i just couldn't get hooked on it. i think the director fucked it up (i didn't really enjoy any of his movies lol). i didn't read the comic but i'm guessing it's way more interesting ㅇ_ㅇ
i really enjoyed the first episode tho. but overall 7/10 for me

As far as it concerns the details and the Korean stuff that you mentioned that may be lost to translation i literally don't know what i am missing :P Thankfully i watch every film or show with English sub and not in my native language so i wanna believe at least to english the translation is decent. In my native language the subtitles are like a joke between me and my friends. He all gather and watch a random episode of a random show or movie (an English one in order to understand the dialog) and laugh our asses off. Worst subtitles ever :P

Now to the movie i don't know the actor nor the director so i am taking your word 100% for it. I am hoping for the second season to be better although i believe that it would be a greater idea for 12 episodes in season 1 and then a season 2 or the end if it's short. I say that cause till the time the second season will be up which i speculate at least 6 months, the hype will be lost. Also, i extremely like the fact that this is based on webcomic and it's an original coming from Korea!

yea man overall i think it's alright. i just think it could've been better with a different director. cuz it seems like they spent a lot of money on this. i wonder if season 2 will ever come out. but if it does i'm probably gonna watch it. but won't be one of my favorites :)

Just watched this series a week ago and I love it! XD I'm normally not a big fan of zombie shows (I find TWD a little bit boring as 70% of the episode is just Zombies slowlyyyy walking lol) but this one is definitely not boring. I love how the Zombies (I call them zombies) knows how to run here. XD

Although it was such a bummer having to wait for months (or even a year) for Kingdom's Season 2.

Anways, great review! I have to agree with your 8.5 rating here. :)

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i have the exact same thoughts and opinion as you. Hooray!! :P

I generally don't enjoy zombie movies especially when they don't play a role to zombie genre movie or show :P (like TWD). Also i agree with you about the second season. i believe that it would be a greater idea for 12 episodes in season 1 and then a season 2 or the end if it's short. I say that cause till the time the second season will be up which i speculate at least 6 months, the hype will be lost

it's one of my fav zombie series and i have watched quite a lot of those :D train to busan was fantastic as well.

yeahh! glad you enjoyed it too! and as the meme says " i see you are a woman of culture!"

Also, because my memory till now is pretty good, i remember you from around a year ago! you have upvoted and commented on some of my reviews (thanks for that) and i think i have done the same. I thought you quit steem, how are you?

oh i haven't quit steem. Just been busy :D

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