Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

clotblaster Stephen Fry, playing an attorney with a young, eager-beaver legal intern, lives and works in a small seaside town somewhere in England. The show has wit and charm--also, it delivers thematically with usually understated or just matter of fact truths about life. Fry is truly great in this role, where he is asked to be the man everyone likes and to whom they turn to solve their problems, legal and otherwise. His character's sister is over the top with obvious, but not major, psych problems. But she makes a great contrast to the almost always unflappable Fry. A special mention should go to the actress who plays Fry's secretary/receptionist. She helps to make the show seem real by being a good person whose presence helps Fry to solve the problems of the various denizens of this village. At 18 episodes, the show is incomplete---the final episode does not in any way wrap up the show or give a sense of an ending. Three good reasons why show stopped: cancelled--Brit t.v. is notorious for cancelling popular shows (did it with Foyle's War and outcry was so great that it was brought back for a few more shows); Fry is a millionaire who may have decided that he'd had enough; the episodes had covered a lot of ground in terms of what it's like to live in a small village with quirky characters and situations. Anyway, with all he junk on t.v., it is truly too bad that a quality show only gets 18 episodes. I believe that with a bit of creativity many more stories could have been engendered and not have been repetitive or boring.

chocolategenius I came across this show, on youtube.com, trying to find shows featuring Dominic Mafham. I was pleasantly surprised in spite of the fact that he isn't a main character. It is a lawyer version of Northern Exposure. I do find Hermione Norris's character a bit irritating but I think it is because I enjoyed her so much in Wire in the Blood and I tend to dislike "lovable but crazy and destructive sibling" characters. The stories are light and simple with a little darkness sprinkled from the plot involving Simon Kingdom. I have only watched the first few episodes of the first season so that might change. Overall, I would recommend this show as a nice alternative to most American network television.

rmclink Stephen Fry as the title role of Kingdom is wonderful. I don't find the other characters irritating at all. They're charming. They have great potential for growth which is why I watch this sort of show. I use to watch shows like "The Golden Girls" not because it was fantastic, in fact it was kind of predictable, but the actors performed that show with grace and a level of excellence seldom seen. Same for "Kingdom". Excellent. Stephen Fry is just a delight to watch do anything. He's real. Maybe he does one very good version of himself but have you ever seen a Brad Pitt movie? Same guy over and over and his movies make millions. Give me Stephen Fry any day. Give me Kingdom.

pawebster "Let's have Stephen Fry playing... oh, a lovable Stephen Fry, more or less, and we'll give him a young sidekick and a faithful female retainer. He can have a distinctive old car to drive, like Morse or Inspector Lynley, and we'll set the whole thing in a quaint old English location. Where haven't we had? Oh, and we'll put in some other recurrent 'characters' for comedy and colour. We'll go for the category 'slightly whimsical comedy drama'..." Something akin to the above must have been the creative process, if such we can call it, behind this painting-by-numbers series. British TV has churned out many like it before. It wouldn't surprise me to find that there is a computer program that automatically generates formats like this.Stephen Fry can doubtless do the series without breaking the slightest sweat. The brightest spark is Karl Davies as the sidekick, though, to judge from the first three episodes, he has a strange clause in his contract requiring him to be submerged in water every week.Tony Slattery's character and the deranged sister are so irritating that they may yet send me screaming from the room. I doubt I'll be the only one.