question: should spider watch Kingdom

I thought it was just a period drama but apparently not??

All I had seen was pictures of pretty people in 16th century clothes

I did not know it included the Z-word

it's really good!! also v v short seasons

it's such an interesting intermingling of zombie thriller but also, like, imperial succession drama & politicking & how the strong grind commoners underfoot

i also find it super interesting that it's based on an actual historical plague that swept korea (just make it zombies), but that is uh... maybe more close2home in this day and age

i've kept watching zombie stuff over the past year tho so my tolerance is pretty high for them

Nᴇᴄʀᴏᴍᴀɴᴄᴇ : Neat! I'll approach with caution, but my curiosity has definitely been piqued by seeing people playing characters from it.

omg people are rping from kingdom?? AWESOME

it deserves more love for sure, the characters are v likeable

Yep! I'm voice testing Sergeant Slick from TCW versus Lee Chang right now

honestly, as someone who's not that big on a lot of zombie stuff, Kigdom does it really well and they manage to make it unique, imo.

plus all the drama that goes along with the setting just adds to everything

I watched it first as a period piece and it took a bit to clue into 'oh.. they're zombies'

but I would say if you have a low tolerance to go in with caution and that the pause button or even back button? is your friend

Rival Fenix : I love a lot of horror but I've been avoiding stuff I haven't seen before in the past 15 months of March.

When I'm a bit skittish about something but still interested, I tend to deliberately spoil myself and/or just listen to it on low without looking directly at the screen, to gauge where jumpscares or moments of tension fall.

Rival Fenix : yessss agreed w all of this

like i found myself saying to my friend a lot, "Kingdom is actually way more what i wanted to see out of Game of Thrones, re: how medieval politics collides with a supernatural threat"

it's such a rich unique mashup

ooh that's a big endorsement, because I was really grumpy about that when I tried to watch GoT

GoT felt like.... basically a slasher/torture porn horror with some fantasy set dressing, like. Coming from a horror fan perspective the fact that they were doing Sexy Things and regularly killing members of the ensemble cast didn't feel original or shocking, just tiresome because they didn't have enough other material to hold my interest.

also I'd (unfortunately) read Sword of Truth as a middle schooler and thus the Dark Fantasy Hardcore Shock Factor had very much worn off...

yeahhhh and the white walkers just... aren't all that connected to the rest of the series plot bc they're so far removed from everything? for most of the series they're just beyond the wall, most characters don't even know they exist

but here you get to see a kingdom facing the "oh my god what the FUCK do we do with our zombie problem???" question so much earlier, so the plotlines are far more entwined in Kingdom

oh that's a relief!

I'll have to figure out which of my netflix-having friends I can watch it with then

I watch shows so rarely that getting an account has never really made sense...

huh. I may also watch this