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- ABC
- 2016
- ABC
- 2016
Summary The historical epic focuses on King Saul (Ray Winstone) and the young shepherd David (Oliver Rix), who will take over.
- ABC
- 2016
- ABC
- 2016
Summary The historical epic focuses on King Saul (Ray Winstone) and the young shepherd David (Oliver Rix), who will take over.
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Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
47
13% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
75% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
It’s bloody, grim, as overtly sexual as a commercial broadcast network can be, occasionally engrossing and only tangentially related to any serious inquiry into Christianity.
Of Kings and Prophets is too worldly and iconoclastic for the faith crowd, not worldly and iconoclastic enough for everyone else. There’s some impressive sword and sandal spectacle--there’s a creative, gruesome treatment of David’s clash with Goliath--but it’s mostly dingily lit chamber drama.
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
6.8
72% Positive
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6% Mixed
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There are moments when Of Kings and Prophets seems sincere and very timely in its examination of the tense and historically troubling relationship between politics and religion.... But those moments are few and far between, at least in early episodes, which seem more interested in proving once again that people are people no matter what the century or how true the script is to the time period.
With its many moving parts never quite working in unison, Of Kings And Prophets plays the game of thrones and neither wins nor dies.
Watching, you feel as though its story is just familiar enough to seem inevitable whenever it’s not tedious, and its earnestness short-circuits any electrical charge of wit or sexiness.
The whole affair seems like a major miscalculation: Of Kings and Prophets seemingly features too much sex and violence for some churchgoers and not enough clarity for anyone else.
You can be forgiven for not immediately recognizing the Biblical king, lost as he is in the muddled cheesefest that is ABC’s Of Kings and Prophets.
