[Show] Kings - Did Anyone Here Watch The Fantastic Premiere?

I was traveling, but I've been intrigued by all the trailers. I'll check it out and post back.

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It was a well thought out storyline set-up of a dystopian future when Earth has been broken up into small kingdoms and monarchies after an only briefly described world war. It's where they take it from here that will count. There's already been one assassination and it's stacking up to be the court of King David of the future.

However, it doesn't look good for the series:

NBC's "Kings" dethroned in ratings
Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:45am EDT

By James Hibberd

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC's "Kings" had a devastating premiere Sunday night.

Despite generally positive reviews, with some calling the project the most original new drama of the season, "Kings" drew only 6 million viewers and was the lowest-rated program between 8 and 11 p.m. on a major broadcast network.

Its two-hour debut was on par with this season's other bottom-of-the-barrel premieres, like last week's reality show "Chopping Block" and former Friday night adventure "Crusoe."

Nobody expected "Kings," an allegorical story retelling "King David" in modern times, to break from the gate as a major hit -- especially after the network moved the show from its originally planned slot of Thursdays at 10 p.m. to Sundays at 8 p.m. But neither did observers expect a fully budgeted scripted drama with a standard marketing push to open to this modest a number.

"Kings" didn't much help NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" (6.7 million) at 10 p.m., but the ambitious sci-fi allegory of "Kings" is no sure audience match for the celeb-reality of "Apprentice."

ABC won the night with "Desperate Housewives" (14.4 million) and "Brothers & Sisters" (10.6 million), both up several notches from last week, along with "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (9.4 million).

CBS was second with on-par editions of "The Amazing Race" (10.4 million), "Cold Case" (12.9 million) and "The Unit" (10.9 million). Fox placed third with "The Simpsons" (6 million), "King of the Hill" (5.4 million), "Family Guy" (7.2 million) and "American Dad" (5.8 million).

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It was unusual and well acted with some good monologue reminiscent of McShane's role in Deadwood in some ways (king of a bigger village). But even though it's an alternate reality, I wouldn't classify it as Sci-Fi and I think it will disappoint anyone who watches it expecting Sci-Fi. It seems like more of a political fantasy soap opera. I'm not sure there's much of an audience for that combination. Although anything is better than xTreme Home gag-fest.

Forget the reviews. I love it!

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I liked parts of it and was ambivalent towards other parts (the romance with the daughter started a bit too early and progressed a bit too fast). I have a feeling it's headed for the fate of "Jericho," which I never was able to get into. It's that part of sci-fi always referred to as sociological future fiction. It's vague as to whether this is a post-apocalyptic or parallel dimension world, or both? Shiloh is a "rebuilt city," but, of course, recognizable as NYC with some CGI glass-house boys buildings thrown in.