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anyone else seen the beautifully birdbrained MMA tv series KINGDOM (2014)? (en.wikipedia.org)
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I think its generic title and weird availability (audience network??) doomed it to obscurity but there's a lot in it for slop enjoyers.....incredibly deep bench of character actors in the main and guest/recurring cast for starters. frank grillo, paul walter hauser and jonathan tucker alone being in so much of it makes it worthy. uh nick jonas is there also

I would basically describe it as a kind of a douchebag hot couch take on a prestige drama. lots of fighting, lots of betrayal, lots of alcoholism, lots of melodrama. but also for long stretches, some of the most realistic unflowery dialogue I've ever seen on tv? the non-male characters are mostly not embarrassing from what I remember? the second season is twenty episodes long, and then the third is the hottest mess imaginable?

this is as good a clip as I'm gonna find. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4QZ9fjgoHM

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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

For some reason, my brain keeps going like "Isn't this the show where it's like an alternate history where they do Bible shit, but with tanks and guns and stuff?" and then i have to put my heads in my hands and tell myself, "no, that was something else and you don't remember what that was called either."

[–] hollowmines@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

aha I also remember the show you're thinking of but can't recall the title either. one of those one season wonders I never actually watched I think.

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There was some stuff like that in dr who

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everything i know about Dr. Who was gleaned through cultural osmosis

I never really watched it

Maybe like one episode back when I would get really high and watch PBS" late night BBC borrowed programming

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

I watched a few seasons several years ago back when I still had cable, but haven't watched since then. I just remember some episodes set in the future where the catholic church had developed a military wing, kind of like taking the notion of the salvation army way too far, so the priest was just a rank in this military, and cardinal was like general. Shit like that. Was pretty funny. I believe it was the episode with the angel statues.

[–] nasezero@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's the one!

Now to cement that in my brain, so I can forget it in five or so years and have a similar mental breakdown

[–] nasezero@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

I always remember it because it was my first introduction to Ian McShane, and then years later when he showed up in John Wick I was like leo-point and looked through his filmography on his wiki page to find the TV show.