I thought I was the only one who watched Kings, or knew it was a Bible story. I had never read about the show in reviews when I stumbled upon it by accident last summer. I'm not a big TV watcher. I have always followed certain high value dramas- West Wing, Sopranos, The Closer, Saving Grace, Mad Men, to name a few, and I was astonished to come across "Kings" unheralded. Why was this? "Kings" should have been trumpeted to the roof tops There was not a single dud among the cast members. The script was written in such a way that it did not sound "Biblical", and the characters were named so that a casual viewer might miss the connection altogether, but the story was there to recognize. As the reviewer mentioned, King Silas spoke in language that seems pompously stilted and royal, but the actor's command of the character was good enough that you could imagine Silas uttering such unlikely speeches. The sets and cityscapes seemed both familiar and strikingly alien, as though it were a Kingdom struck off of the old Soviet Union that we were just seeing for the first time, run by one of those oddly eccentric monarchs that persist here and there. I loved the show. I can't imagine why it didn't get some awards and better critical attention. The idea that idiotic "reality shows" persist and "Kings" does not makes me fear for the state of American brains. What went wrong?