I've just finished the second season of this TV series and all I can say is this: Why oh why is there no third season?!? I've been looking around for rumours on the net, and I found that a "Riget III" has indeed been prepared but abandoned since the actors playing the roles of the professor Helmer and Ms Sigrid Drusse both died in between.
The Kingdom is a TV soap opera about events that take place in a hospital that is built aver an ancient cemetary. As a movie by Lars Von Trier, you of course get the Dogma unstable DV camera but you also get all the characters, the whole depths of their relationships, and all the shades of grey between good and evil that he brings to his movies. The movie looks grainy or dirty sometimes, which gives it a more "organic" look, rather suited to the goofiness or spookiness of the characters, and the uncharasteristic other-wordly events.
Everyone will love the danes-hating, faeces-sinking, swedish professor Helmer and its danish counterpart, the loony, fresh-aired, always misplaced professor Moesgaard.
Half touching, half gory, half surprising and half ghostly: 200% strange but always interesting. It may not be as long or as elaborated as "Twin Peaks" but it misleads you all the same.
You have to see the Kingdom!
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