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Kings

★ 8.1 9K votes 2009–2009 1 season · 13 episodes Ended NBC
Royalty & aristocracyCourts, crowns and dynasties.This show: 9/10Political intriguePower struggles inside governments and institutions.This show: 9/10Tight limited runA compact, complete story told in just a few episodes.This show: 8/10Faith & religionBelief, doubt and religious institutions.This show: 7/10Stylized directionBold, signature formal choices.This show: 7/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 7/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 7/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Ian McShaneChristopher EganSusanna ThompsonAllison MillerEamonn WalkerSebastian Stan
Written by
Michael Green
Starring
Ian McShaneChristopher EganSusanna ThompsonAllison MillerEamonn WalkerSebastian Stan
Written by
Michael Green
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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"Biblical power struggle reborn as modern royal tragedy"

Set in the alternate modern kingdom of Gilboa, this series reimagines the biblical story of David and Saul as a lush political drama. A young soldier's unlikely battlefield triumph catapults him into the orbit of an aging, increasingly paranoid monarch. It plays like Shakespearean tragedy dressed in tailored suits and gleaming skyscrapers, heavy on court intrigue, family betrayal, and mounting dread rather than action. The pace is deliberate and theatrical, carried almost entirely by a towering lead performance and the show's audacious, richly stylized world-building.

Watch it for

the commanding, larger-than-life performance anchoring this ambitious modern retelling of a king's rise and fall.

Maybe skip if

you want fast-paced plotting rather than slow-burning palace intrigue and allegory.

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All Seasons

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Season 12009
8.12K1312h 43m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Goliath: Part One8.2
302120 min
▶2Goliath: Part Two8.2
93—
▶3Prosperity8.1
20960 min
▶4First Night7.6
17460 min
▶5Insurrection7.6
16460 min
▶6Judgment Day8.0
16060 min
▶7Brotherhood8.0
14760 min
▶8The Sabbath Queen7.9
14560 min
▶9Pilgrimage8.5
14260 min
▶10Chapter One8.0
13760 min
▶11Javelin8.5
13260 min
▶12The New King: Part One8.7
14043 min
▶13The New King: Part Two8.3
12660 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Ian McShane King Silas Benjamin
Christopher Egan David Shepherd
Susanna Thompson Queen Rose Benjamin
Allison Miller Michelle Benjamin
Eamonn Walker Reverend Ephram Samuels
Sebastian Stan Jack Benjamin
Dylan Baker William Cross
Michael Crane Chancellor Hanson
Marlyne Barrett Thomasina
Jason Antoon Boyden

Crew

Michael Green

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