{"id":8198,"date":"2009-03-16T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T01:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wwwold.dreamloom.com\/?p=8198"},"modified":"2009-03-16T18:29:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T01:29:06","slug":"kings-premieres-does-anyone-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/?p=8198","title":{"rendered":"Kings premieres. Does anyone care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8197\" title=\"kingss01e01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/kingss01e011.jpg\" alt=\"kingss01e01\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t have a lot to say about the premiere of <em>Kings<\/em> right yet; it was ambitious and interesting and I&#8217;ve saved a season pass for it, but I don&#8217;t really know what to think. It could easily degrade into a soapy mess, more <em>90210<\/em> than <em>The West Wing<\/em>, but Michael Green&#8217;s pilot managed to hold the line. It certainly doesn&#8217;t hurt that he&#8217;s got Ian McShane and Eamonn Walker around to recite some of his Jacobean dialog. And it doesn&#8217;t hurt that he&#8217;s willing to <em>write<\/em> such stylized dialog.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the ratings were&#8230;poor. Which is a shame, because unlike other high-profile, heavily hyped shows that have premiered lately (*cough* <em>Dollhouse <\/em>*cough*) this one deserves a chance to fly on its butterfly wings. Sad that someone who played Vamp #3 in some episode of <em>BtVS<\/em> or another didn&#8217;t make an appearance. Maybe the Whedonverse faithful would have tuned it to this with some of the passion they&#8217;ve been wasting on that Friday night abortion.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t watch the pilot, go online and give it a chance. It&#8217;s available on the NBC website and Hulu. If you did watch, pipe in below with your opinion\/thoughts on the episode. Did you like it? Will you be giving it a chance? Should we be reviewing it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have a lot to say about the premiere of Kings right yet; it was ambitious and interesting and I&#8217;ve saved a season pass for it, but I don&#8217;t really know what to think. It could easily degrade into a soapy mess, more 90210 than The West Wing, but Michael Green&#8217;s pilot managed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,62],"class_list":["post-8198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussions","tag-kings","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamloom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}