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Kingdom episode 2.4
South Korea 2020
produced by AStory/Netflix
directed by Park In-je
starring Ju Ji-Hoon, Ryu Seung-ryong, Bae Doona, Kim Sang-ho, Kim Sungkyu, Jun Suk-ho, Kim Hye-jun, Park Byeong-eun, Kim Tae-hoon, Kim Jong-soo, Ahn Eun-Jin, Sung Min-soo
written by Kim Eun-hee
TV-series Kingdom
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Physician Seo Bi (Bae Doona) manages not only to cure Chancellor Cho
(Ryu Seung-ryong), who has been bitten by a zombie, but also isolate the
cause of zombification, it's parasite worms who lay their eggs in what has
become as the resurrection plant and who have the ability to take over the
corpses of the freshly deceased. However, his hard brush with death hasn't
softened the chancellor up one bit, as soon enough he orders the
incarceration and torture of the families of the soldiers who have
switched allegiance to Crown Prince Chang (Ju Ji-Hoon). But Cho still has
some honour inside of him, so he confronts his own daughter, the Queen
(Kim Hye-jun) with the (essentially true) rumour that her newborn son is
actually not her own but that of one of the women of her stable of forced
surrogate mothers. The Queen only sort of denies this, and chooses to
poison her own father just to stay in power. And as for Seo Bi - the Queen
has thrown her into her dungeon into a cage next to cages full of zombies,
hoping that the physician will find a way to control them ... A
nice episode that finally brings what has started out as a minor subplot -
the Queen's "pregnancy" - to a very satisfying and macabre
ending and offers many surprise twists along the way. And while it's a
rather beautifully structured story with beginning, middle and end, it
still leaves one crave for more ...
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