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Kings
2009 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Michael Green
A riveting drama about a modern day monarchy, a contemporary re-telling of the timeless tale of David and Goliath. This series is an epic story of greed and power, war and romance, forbidden loves and secret alliances -- and a young hero who rises to power in a modern-day kingdom.
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I think brutalist Houses of Parliament + whatever style the Tower of London was would make an amazing backdrop for an AU tv series, something like Kings (2009); the contrast between the drab modern buildings and the old monarchic traditions and pomp (think Gormenghast), the disconnect between our real-world familiarity of what the buildings are and what are we seeing, would be really interesting to explore. And I think there's something to putting mundane established knowledge against new backdrops to see new perspectives and new nuances.
This happens sometimes with Netflix/Hulu/etc. summaries of films. For whatever reason (copyright? NIH?), many of services insist on creating their own capsule summaries for their content, but of course, there isn’t time to actually watch the shows to describe them so sometimes the descriptions are comically incorrect. The one I can remember was Hulu’s description for the series Kings (an actually pretty interesting retelling of the David/Saul/Jonathan story from the Bible in a modern context), where whoever wrote the capsule summary spoke mostly about the kingdom’s flag.
I think Kings would be an excellent candidate for this approach, apart from the $x million per episode production costs... I watched all the episodes on Hulu, why not finish the show on Hulu?
I haven't had Cable/Satellite since 2002. I started watching all my TV on DVDs that I bought from Amazon, but then switched to iTunes around 2006.
Now it's mostly a combination of iTunes/DVD - I'm pretty certain it's less expensive than subscribing to TV.
The good part of this (and it should be emphasized) - is that you now watch for a _purpose_ - Latest episode of Lost, BSG, Dexter, Weeds, South Park, Doll House, BtVS, Angel, The Wire, DeadWood, Heroes, The Office, Dr. Horrible, Mad Men, Parks and Recreation, Castle, Californication, Dr. Who, Kings, Sarah Connor Chronicles, True Blood, Torchwood.
Any time that might have been lost to just passively watching television, news, is now, of course, lost to passively reading ycombinator, nyt, wsj, groklaw... :-)