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Suela, that's where I saw the rec.
I was flashing on Baz Lurhman's Romeo + Juliet.
Richard III with Ian McKellen, for me, once I found out the premise.
the marketing is exactly not the sort of thing to get me to tune in.
Do you think explaining the alternate universe thing would turn off more people than on? Because it piqued my interest mightily. Before knowing that, I thought it was a story of an American soldier earning the indebtedness of a European monarch. And that wasn't doing the show many favours.
I could tell it was an AU America thing from the ads.
I must be the market!
From those one or two NBC spots? How?
Well, it looked like America - except it had a king.
I failed to get the "looked like America" thing. They all look like America. Or, well, Vancouver.
How many shows on regular tv aren't set in the USofA? Even Flashpoint seems to try to hide that fact that it's in Canada.
Flashpoint shows Canadian newspapers and the Toronto skyline. I was quite startled by that. But too many Americans for the accent to pervade.
In my head, NBC is more likely to make a series about an American soldier abroad than an alternate reality. The truth would never have occurred to me.
Even Flashpoint seems to try to hide that fact that it's in Canada.
They call people Constable, and there have been other cues that they're in Toronto. It was startling, because usually they totally pretend to not be in Canada.
I failed to get the "looked like America" thing. They all look like America. Or, well, Vancouver.
Kings is very obviously shot in and around NYC, which I appreciate. (Except for the palace entrance being the steps in front of the Brooklyn Museum because anyone who's been there knows that those steps don't actually lead anywhere and are purely for show. It's distracting to see them used as a front door.)
NBC seems to be selling some vague "what if there were....KINGS? Also random butterflies!" thing when they should be selling it as West-Wing-meets-Rome.
Ep 2 holds up well. There are a few more "As we both know, Bob" scenes than I normally like, but it's excusable this early in the season, and the tidbits they drop are pretty juicy. (And more than there were in the pilot, which seems to have been written more as a standalone TV movie than as the first episode in a series.)
Thanks for the rec, Jessica! I was going to tune because of Ian McShane, but the ads really do look bad.
