Kings: Pilot Episode: Goliath And I’ll Walk Away a Fool or a KingI wish I could do funny, snarky, scene by scene recaps but it’s probably better if I don’t try. I’ll stick with Pro versus Con for this pilot episode.
( Spoilers Ahoy! )All in all, a flawed series but one with a lot of potential that I'd like to see realized.
ETA: Apparently, it got creamed in the ratings last night. It was on during the 8 pm "family hour" even though it's not *really* a "family" show... PLUS, like the "Book of Daniel" fiasco, it's a show with religious themes that would please most normal people (religious in the sense that it's based on a Bible story, anyway...) but will most likely upset the very demographic who could save the show- and by that I mean, religious conservatives with money (because when they put their weight behind something, it
moves)- lefties would like it if they tuned in but they won't, and even if they do like it, they won't lift a finger to do anything about it, because
they never do.
cough.
And unfortunately, we don't currently live in an era where struggling tv shows get more than one more chance to grab an audience, especially not on a Big Three network in primetime. I mean, we can hold out hope, since NBC really has nothing better going on except "Law and Order" and the Thursday comedies, but this is the network that just gave Jay Leno his own primetime hour every weeknight at ten, instead of retiring him like they said they would. So NBC has been wearing Bad Idea Jeans a lot lately.