As the Queen (Kim Hye-jun) has released the zombies in the palace, they go ahead and kill and eat everyone in sight - including the Queen, as a matter of fact. Somehow physician Seo Bi (Bae Doona) gets hold of her baby son and brings him to safety - knowing more about zombies than anyone else, she's the one for the job. Meanwhile, Crown Prince Chang (Ju Ji-Hoon) and his men fight the zombie hordes, but it's a losing battle. Eventually, Chang has the idea to lure them out onto the frozen over lake and then make the ice break - something that pretty much spells doom because the ice sure needs more than a few gunshots to break, so most of the Crown Prince's men are killed and even he himself is bitten by a zombie - when the ice finally does break, and since the worms that cause zombification are allergic to water, Chang is saved from becoming an undead just in time, while all the zombies die in the lake.

As there are now two crown princes, Chang and the Queen's newborn (even if technically he's not really her child, see earlier episodes), Chang decides to fake his own death and let the little one have the throne to end all future inheritance disputes. Instead, he decides to accompany Seo Bi on her excursions to further study the resurrection plant ...

Now the fight humans vs. zombies sure is the finale the series deserves, it's exciting, it's brutal, and it's merciless, both in content and in execution - and while at least some of he heroes of the show survive, it's fittingly bitter enough, too. Unfortunately, the episode doesn't end there but spends way too long with an epilogue that lacks any narrative tension as it seems to be tagged on, and seems to be a bit of an attempt to shoehorn in a third season even if seasons one and two of Kingdom together tell one self-contained story with beginning, middle and end, there is no narrative need for more. That all said, I'll repeat, the finale has everything one could have hoped for and the series pointed to it quite logically, so from that point of view the episode's of course a must-see - one just could have done without the epilogue.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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