YMMV / Kingdom (2019)

• Adaptation Displacement: Most people in South Korea and overseas don't know that the show is based on the webcomic Kingdom of the Gods.
• Friendly Fandoms: With Sweet Home (2020). Makes sense; they're both Korean horror series about an apocalypse turning people into monsters, and Kim Sang-ho plays a major character in both.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: In early episodes it's shown that Prince Chang has secured Mu-yeong's allegiance and gets him to spy around the capital for him by holding a previous incident of theft over his head, with Mu-yeong griping about how the Prince has never let that bit of blackmail go. Season 2 has a flashback revealing Mu-yeong sneaking bits of the Prince's untouched food into a bag while he was asleep, but he gets caught in the act. The Prince hears out his reasons ^note he wanted to feed his pregnant wife something to settle her stomach, as she had been having a rough time and been fighting illness and waves it off without punishment, before asking Mu-yeong if he would consider serving him and helping him uncover what was happening in the palace in exchange for more food for his wife. The gripes about blackmail seem more like a Running Joke they shared than an actual threat after this.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Kim Sang-ho (Mu-yeong) went from one fictional apocalypse to another; his character in this series fights zombies, and his character in Sweet Home (2020) fights monsters.
  • The series has a lot in common with Rampant. Zombies in the Joseon Dynasty? Check. The king is a zombie? Check. The crown prince is trying to save the country? Check. Even the protagonists' names are similar: Rampant has Lee Chung, and Kingdom has Lee Chang.
  • Ryu Seung-ryong plays a politician who works for a currently-incapacitated king but pretends there's nothing wrong with the king. Is this a description of Cho Hak-ju or Heo Gyun?
  • Ashin of the North is the second time Koo Kyo-hwan (Aidagan) has played a villain in a zombie movie; a year earlier he played Captain Seo in Peninsula.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • The nobles cross it when they willingly chose to abandon all the peasants and lower-rank inhabitants to the zombies by running away in the sole remaining boat rather than try to take down all the corpses they can as asked by Lee Chang.
  • The Queen crosses the horizon when it's finally revealed she faked her pregnancy, arguably setting the entire plot in motion, and is murdering pregnant women in order to steal a child and complete the deception.

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