That was ... odd
Apr. 5th, 2009 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienWaiting for dinner to cook, Shadow Unit's new episode to go live, and Little Dorrit to start, I found myself watching an episode of "Kings" on NBC.
Very, very strange show. Supposedly based on the Biblical story of Saul and David (though I don't recall Saul doing land-for-peace deals with the Philistines or keeping a mistress in the country, or David's father dying in battle) it has the sort of measured, poetic language and stagey delivery I haven't seen since the glory days of B5, and costuming and sets vaguely reminiscent of the sort of thing you get when someone decides to do Shakespeare in Fascist dress, crossed with an eighties soap. Also Ian McShane, who has also been known to show up in eighties soaps.
Very, very strange show. Supposedly based on the Biblical story of Saul and David (though I don't recall Saul doing land-for-peace deals with the Philistines or keeping a mistress in the country, or David's father dying in battle) it has the sort of measured, poetic language and stagey delivery I haven't seen since the glory days of B5, and costuming and sets vaguely reminiscent of the sort of thing you get when someone decides to do Shakespeare in Fascist dress, crossed with an eighties soap. Also Ian McShane, who has also been known to show up in eighties soaps.
