FIRST LOOK: NBC’s ‘Kings’

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Loosely based on the biblical tales of David vs. Goliath but set in modern times, NBC’s ‘Kings’ imagines a United States ruled by monarchy.

Here’s a first look at the series:

From the review:

“Kings,” which begins Sunday on NBC, is certainly the strangest series to be offered by a major network in this slowly unrolling winter season, a parallel-world modernizing of the biblical story of King Saul and little David, who with his sling slew Goliath and later became king himself. (Goliath in this case is the name of a kind of tank, and the sling is a bazooka.) Playing like some weird mix of’Dirty Sexy Money’ and ‘Battlestar Galactica’ -- though I doubt that was the pitch -- it is an interesting muddle of a show, smart and silly by turns. It’s corny, ponderous, literary, ambitious, obvious and, at the beginning at least, as slow as molasses, but continually re-energized by Ian McShane as King Saul, or, as he’s known here, King Silas Benjamin, possibly because Saul Benjamin sounded too Jewish.

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