lisajoann OK so I read maybe 20+ reviews before buying the series and one in particular was accurate, the first 2 episode are soooooo bloody boring! It was the last few mins of episode two that caught my attention! Episode 3 was pretty good, I loved the the idea of everyone being possessed and singing and dancing to a song! That whole scene was pure genius! Yet here I am on episode 8 (all in one evening btw) and I am back to bored!! The story is non existent really.... It's haphazardness in the way it's put together means you can't get to know or like any of the characters!The whole thing is ridiculous and to top it all off ... Then there is the anteater....!!!!It's absolutely bloody beyond words stupid!!!!!! Anteaters don't have full on mouths or teeth that can devour you!!!! A wolf would have worked better! This show isn't scary at all, more laughable!!! American horror story got every single thing right- this show got every single thing wrong! Never been more disappointed!!The only reason it gets 3* s is Diane Ladd! She is the saving grace of a show that's terrible beyond words!!!

arachnidzone Yes, a rarity nowadays, this is only one season, but its a complete series with an actual ending. Its quirky in places, weird all the time, it has enough suspense to keep you wanting more and its one of the best feel-good, "I love it when a plan comes together" endings ever. Thats when several of the series weirder bits all form a 'solid' ending ;) Who is it aimed at? lovers of horror, Stephen King, thrillers and the unusual. Yes its not exactly horrific, but most horror isn't. Its definitely fanciful, thrilling and a bit dramatic with a bit of comedy thrown in to the mix, but not in to your face.Its not got amazing acting, its so weird and wonderful of a storyline that its not particularly realistic, but its one of those rare times where the overall experience makes you totally forget any shortcomings.Best way to watch is all at once like me and my wife did. A long and gratifying experience that had me getting right online to get 'Red Dragon Tattoo' by 'Fountains of Wayne' and now every time I hear it I smile and think of the series and in-particular the ending, which by the way, I just re-watched the ending which I would consider a sad thing to do, but its what prompted this review. Corny as it sounds it warms your heart lol.Excellent.

red_hyro Stephen King's version of the Danish Miniseries "The Kingdom", about a hospital filled with oddballs and ghosts, manages to render what had been a funny, thoughtful, and eerie story into a boring piece of dog poop. Skip it and make the effort to find the original by Lars von Trier, you'll be glad you did.In his other works, King is good at occasionally creating scary moments, some even filled with prolonged dread; yet what makes his novels readable and other television projects such as "Rose Red" watchable when wading through the banal characters, plot points and scenes, is here lacking, which is strange. It may be explained by his inability to create the subtle forms of eeriness on display in his source material, which used quiet and stillness, not as the preface to a suddenly scream, but a soft murmur. King doesn't have the patience, and instead fills up the spooky quiet with incessant yammering.Gone as well are the often comic and/or obsessive, yet believably human characters which were the backbone of the original series by Lars Von Trier. King instead treats us to boring clichés reminiscent of one dimensional characters from his other works.The charmingly arrogant, scheming and blustering doctor Stig Helmer, one of the original series' many treasures, is robbed of his intelligence and turned into Dr. Stegman, a craven moron whose own arrogance, bluster and scheming ways would have seemed too broad on M.A.S.H. King can't stand to create mere A-holes, they must be inhumanly evil and stupid. Yosemite Sam was more nuanced and received less cloyingly saccharine comeuppance from his adversaries, although Yosemite's comeuppance was distinguished by being funny: no such luck with Stegman, and the Kingdom Hospital is plagued by King's inability to write intentionally funny lines. (Unfortunately the hilariously awful similes which turn up in his prose works have not appeared to have made it into his scripts, but there are laughs to be found here in the dialogue.) We are also treated to elements familiar to readers of King: tedious interior monologues; annoying singing by various characters; inhuman, snarling bad guys; a wise-cracking, delightlessly sassy god-character (here, a giant anteater); and writing which leaves nothing to be spelled out by the audience. This last quality is perhaps the most annoying of King's as writer, his inability to allow for ambiguities, to let something remain less than obvious.

Silicon_Hills_Review Riget is indeed an excellent body of work. But the humor is based on Danish culture and might be lost on other viewers. If you are a Stephen King fan, then you'll probably enjoy his interpretation of that story. If you don't like Stephen King, then why watch his movies? Consider "Psycho" starring Ann Heche - a remake down to the very last word and camera angle of Hitchcock's "Psycho." What's the point? Or consider James Whale's original Frankenstein - an absolute horror masterpiece. Does that mean I shouldn't enjoy "Young Frankenstein" because it mocks the original? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It brings this story to people who wouldn't otherwise watch it. Some people don't like dubbed movies - they ruin the atmosphere and subtitled movies invariably cause me to miss visual cues. I agree, Riget "Rules", absolutely. But this version has some interesting qualities and I enjoyed watching it. It's better on DVD without all the cuts on cable/dish.