Netflix's Kingdom is best show to binge this Coronavirus Season!

Its Coronavirus vacation and everyone is under self-quarantine and is getting bored sitting on their asses but guess what, Netflix is here to rescue you.This is probably the best chance for anybody to go on a Netflix & Chill streak.I mean who cares about doing anything productive or working on improving a particular skill?Those things are for boomers!We, the smarter generation prefer the more pRoDuCtIvE Netflix and I have the perfect series to save you while you lock yourself.

Kingdom is a South Korean action, fantasy and drama Web Series with some amount of survival horror in it.It is actually based on web-comic series called The Kingdom of The Gods which is written by Kim Eun-hee who is also the writer of the show.The fact that it is Korean automatically is more than enough of a reason to watch(like if you have not watched Parasite, then something is wrong with you).The first thing is first, it is a Zombie show and I know that the Zombie genre has been overdone at this point but Kingdom does things differently and in a much more fresh manner.It is supposed to be a generic and boring zombie apocalypse show but thankfully it was actually really good and after Season 2, it has become something special.Below are the things it does really right:

It makes the Zombies an actual threat that are actually pretty scary!
Zombies have become rather weak enemies in the modern horror genre mostly thanks to how overblown they are or how dumb they are or how easy it is to kill them.Recently, they have become just easy shoot em up target practice in movies and are no longer a threat.They do not create tension or dread and feel very generic and boring.Kingdom fixes all of that and does the impossible by actually making Zombies feel legit.It actually makes the Zombies a scary threat that are actually very difficult to deal with which automatically increases the stakes,the tension and the dread.It gives the Zombies a very clever weakness(besides the generic shoot in the head) but they are still a pain for the humans to deal with.How does it fix the zombies so easily you ask?Well the answer to that is the setting of the Series.

Its is set around the year 1600, the era of Kings, Queens and Kingdoms!
The easiest way to fix all the modern day Zombie problems is to completely ditch the modern era of guns and go way back during the Post Middle Age Jeosan Korean Era.No guns or bombs, just your bows and arrows and swords.Taking modern warfare weapons out of the picture automatically makes the Zombies a stronger threat and also adds a breath of fresh air with some greatly choreographed close combat fight scenes!The series is set few years after the real life event of  The Japanese Invasion of Korea(1592-1598).The set pieces are amazing and it gives a true ancient feel.

The Humans Are The True Evil!
Although the Zombies are a threat to the Kingdom, they are somehow not the worse threat.The worse threat are the humans because ultimately the problems started due to the selfishness of humans.The Zombies are just a secondary element that slowly and steadily take center stage in a show that has quite bit of Kingdom Politics,planning,plotting and conspiracy.It is a show about false Kings,False Queens,Manipulation of the people, the claim for the throne,etc.The way humans use these Zombies for their own narcissistic motivations is done very cleverly. In fact the most disturbing plot in the story is not about the Zombies but about a group of pregnant women that gets very messed up!

It is what Game Of Thrones Season 8 should have been!
Due its Kingdom political nature, 'Kingdom' actually feels a lot like Game Of Thrones even if its way more simpler and linear than GOT.Most importantly, it feels like a proper replacement of GOT Season 8.If you were heavily disappointed by the fact that the walkers never reached Kings Landing well than 'Kingdom' fixes that problem and gives us a proper Zombie vs the Throne moment.Basically this show did more justice to the White Walkers than their own show that set them up for 8 years only to waste them.

Its only 6 episodes per season!
Yes! Its only six episodes per season which makes it super easy to binge.I completed Season 2 in one night!

So a yeah a perfect, simple and easy to binge show.It is ironic that Season 2 released in the middle of the whole Coronavirus situation.Pretty Epic!This show has to be one of the Netflix's underrated gems!