That sure didn’t smell like a penultimate episode. Boy, having Kingdom end next week is seriously going to suck.  You could hardly ask for a more open-ended “resolution” – we have plates spinning everywhere.  The military and political situations have never been more in flux, Qian Lei is whereabouts unknown, […] Read more

I just about ran out of space on my notepad following that episode. The news that Kingdom’s second season is ending after 39 episodes became official this week.  That was wholly expected, but there’d been some hope that we might see an S3 announcement at the same time.  The fact […] Read more

That blush can only mean one thing… This episode could easily have been titled “The Burdens of the Strategist”, because that was the essence of the message it conveyed.  It all comes back to that hostility thing Meng Tian talked about, I suppose – that, and the fact that no […] Read more

If this season’s Xin had a theme song, I suspect it would be “Lola”. The countdown to the end of Kingdom’s second season continues, and like so many I’ll be hoping for a continuation announcement at the end (or soon after).  We may be 74 episodes in but this truly […] Read more

Out of the frying pan, into the fire. So much for the last six episodes of Kingdom being a kind of postscript or epilogue – the peacetime focus lasted all of half an episode, and then it was right back into battle again.  That said, the game was definitely changed […] Read more

Change is in the air, at long last. When all is said and done this battle with the State if Wei has lasted most of the season – something in the neighborhood of 23 episodes.  It’s been one of the better battle arcs (notwithstanding the bad CGI, which has subsided […] Read more

Check and mate. The weight of history hangs heavily over every major arc in Kingdom.  It’s the story of young men trying to secure their place in it, and old men watching their place in it slip into the past.  There’s really a sad sort of vicious cycle that hangs […] Read more