Kings

I liked it very much. Surely one of the best new shows

Well "unfettered one" truer words have never been spoken.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this way. I'm very glad I caught this show. I've been seeing posters all around town, but since I watch all my shows online I never really knew what it was about, because I didn't see any commercials for it. Then by chance I saw some kind of ad on a website the day it was going on the air and checked a clip for the show... to make the story shorter, the clip had nothing to do with the premise of the story but it was so simple, yet so beautiful, subtle and powerful that I knew I had to watch (it was the part when he played the piano during the banquet and the princess walks in.)

I hope I'm not over-hyping the show.

Welcome back "Must see TV".

And this is half the problem with entertainment today. We rely waaaay too much on so-called professionals to tell us what it is exactly, we are suppose to like or dislike.

For those of you who remember me, you probably also remember that I am a big videogamer. For a while over the past year, gaming was becoming something that was really getting me down - which is ironic, considering that entertainment is supposed to have the opposite effect. I'll tell you what, the moment I stopped going to places like Metacritic (and all the other review sites that Metacritic aggregates is data from), stopped relying on the opinions of the "pros" to tell me what I should be playing, and started to rely on the tried and trusted tools of a good demo, a rental and word of mouth from people I can personally vouch for, gaming started getting a lot more fun as a hobby than it had been for a very long time. Today, I actually enjoy gaming more than I have in almost a decade. And it has nothing to do with games suddenly getting better. And everything to do with me deciding to trust my own judgment concerning the things I liked to do with my free time.

Not trying to get on a soapbox and preach to anyone, and not trying to insinuate that any trusts Metacritic exclusively. Just saying that the recent explosion of so-called professionals all across the net over the last decade, who tell us all what we are supposedly supposed to like, is probably doing more damage to entertainment and the relationship between entertainers and their audience, than help. These so-called pros, are always telling me how some of the most fun games to play, suck. So it comes as little surprise to me, that the same "pros" are saying what they have about Kings. I think the more telling meta-data at Metacritic, is the disparity between the very low score aggregated from the "pro" reviews, and the much higher score aggregated from the user reviews. Like with a considerable number of aggregate scores on Metacritic, it increasingly points towards a "professional" review community who is out of touch with the people.

This is the type of show that is good and in a class by itself. Comparing to any other show doesn't do it justice. The closest description I read somewhere was that this show is a mix between the bible story of David and a Shakespearian drama. If you are not into any of those references I mentioned (like me) you will still enjoy it. I watch between 25 and 35 or more different shows (some canceled, some still airing, some good, some ok, some not that good but entertaining) and I have a hard time finding what to compare it with.

In the end like unfettered one said, stop listening to the professional "critics" and try it. I'm glad I did.

I think that this might be one of those shows that you just want to see all at once... Perhaps I shouldn't have started to watch it until it is all finished..

Damn this show is great. I have removed so many shows from my watch list, and this is one of very few new shows to have been added lately

He was? I don't remember that...
And by the way, I think that Margarita Levieva just moved, from being on my top ten, to my top two... or perhaps even one Damn, she is just unbelievably beautiful!

New episode is out... ep 7