One of my favorite shows on television is the NBC show KINGS; a modern-day interpretation of the story of David and Goliath. KINGS unfortunately was cancelled and the remaining episodes have been airing this summer. The fact that it was cancelled in the first place was heartbreaking to me. I say heartbreaking because just watching the season premier back in March got me so attached to the show that I bawled my eyes out in the first hour. The writing is a cross between Shakespearean and Biblical with a modern twist and I find it enthralling to the last. Although its hard for me to watch it regularly, I have been keeping up by watching it on Hulu and today I caught up to the latest episode, which I figured would be followed by another, until the season was entirely finished. I looked up KINGS on Wikipedia to see if I could cheat and find out what was to come in the season and I found out that the season I watched today was in fact the final episode.
....... excuse me.......
what?
I got emotionally invested in this show and watched it month after month for... nothing.
SPOILER ALERT: I will now proceed in telling you why in fact I am so upset about this.
In the final episode, David is on trial for treason (a trumped up charge from the mind of the King after finding out about David's feelings for Silas' daughter) and found guilty, despite the existence of evidence that can prove him innocent. While David is sitting in an underground cell on death row, Silas the King of Gilboa (the fictional Kingdom where the series takes place) is shot twice in an assassination attempt during a peace treaty ceremony. Despite the fact that David's death was scheduled for that very day, he is saved at the last minute from the firing squad by a few rogue members of the military and is brought back to the palace.
The majority of Gilboa assumes that the King was now dead and his son Jack steps up to take his place, despite the fact that there are no heavenly signs that he should be next to take the throne.
(KINGS is interlaced with highly biblical referrences, including two instances in which a crown of Monarch butterflies were sent to both Silas and to David Shepard as a sign from God)
Though David (the underdog hero and a low-ranking soldier who single-handedly takes out a Goliath brand tank on the battlefield) has been sent signs that he should be next to ascend, Jack and his bastard uncle William push forward with the coup and we find out that William was behind the assassination attempt all along and that every member of the Royal detail and Gilboan military is loyal to him, not to Silas.
Meanwhile, the King's body is 'stolen' from the ambulance that was transporting him to the morgue. David thinks that Silas might still be alive and the King's daughter (with whom David is in love with) helps him get out of the palace, which has been put on lockdown. David finds King Silas alive but struggling at the home of his Mistress, with whom he has a child, a young son.
Meanwhile, Michelle (the before-mentioned daughter) finds out that she is pregnant with David's child and her mother makes her swear not to tell anyone, including David.
Silas is able to broadcast a radio message to the people of Gilboa that he will return, guns ablazing, to take back his throne. David vows that upton Silas' return to the throne, the young hero will disappear from Gilboa forever.
William prevents Jack from exacting any orders as the heir apparent, instead making it clear that the only orders will come from him from them on. During the coronation ceremony for Jack, Silas appears in Gilboa again, healed, and walking down the middle of the street, alone. As he approaches the capital building and the palace, he meets the troupe that is guarding the palace and it appears that they will fire on him. Just then, a troupe of tanks appears, with David at the helm of one of them. Silas asks the soldiers if they would like peace under him or continuous war with Jack and they let him through. David and Silas storm into the palace and Jack and William flee, knowing that their death is certain if they stay. David leaves and heads for Gath, the rival country where he might find refuge.
Michelle is exiled until the birth of her and David's child and she can have no contact with him.
Silas takes the throne and preaches that he and God are now enemies.
AND THAT'S IT. AFTER MONTHS AND MONTHS OF WATCHING THE SHOW ABOUT A TYRANT KING AND A HEROIC YOUNG MAN... that's it.
I'm so incredibly disappointed, I can't even handle it. I can only hope that the 3 disc set that comes out in September will have the remaining episodes on it.
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