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The Kingdom (Riget)

Summary Originally created for Danish television as Riget, Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier's supernatural thriller The Kingdom chronicles the bizarre occurrences at the title hospital, the largest and most respected hospital in the country. While the series deals with such real-life complications as murder investigations and malpractice sui...

  • DR1
  • Oct 9, 2022
  • DR1
  • Oct 9, 2022
The Kingdom (Riget)
Season 3
Season Premiere: Oct 9, 2022
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
77
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 6 User Ratings
8.2
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Summary Originally created for Danish television as Riget, Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier's supernatural thriller The Kingdom chronicles the bizarre occurrences at the title hospital, the largest and most respected hospital in the country. While the series deals with such real-life complications as murder investigations and malpractice sui...

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Episode 1 • Oct 9, 2022 • 58 m
Halmer
A mysterious voice calls upon the sleep walker, Karen, during a nightmare. The Kingdom is in need of her assistance, and at the hospital, she finds an ally in the porter, Bulder.
Episode 2 • Oct 9, 2022 • 1 h 5 m
Kongressen danser
Karen has a new vision that could possibly aid her in locating the voice. At The Kingdom, preparations are being made for the annual pain congress, but it seems that the demon, Grand Duc, is on the guest list.
Episode 3 • Oct 16, 2022 • 58 m
Storebror
Karen locates the spiritual core of The Kingdom. Helmer discovers what he was looking for at the hospital, but after a violent clash with Naver, he realizes that things do not always proceed according to plan.
Episode 4 • Oct 23, 2022 • 1 h 5 m
Barbarossa
Karen attempts to solve the task that was given to her, but evil forces work against her and Bulder. Helmer has had it with the Danish stupidity and plans an act of terrorism against the Danes and The Kingdom itself.
Episode 5 • Oct 30, 2022 • 58 m
Exodus
Karen, Krogen and Bulder are fighting against the clock. The time has come to clean The Kingdom of all evil spirits once and for all, but much can still go wrong.

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77
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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100
Nov 28, 2022
Even in this most bountiful of television eras, The Kingdom Exodus stands alone—or, rather, shoulder-to-shoulder with Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return—as a peerlessly haunting, hilarious and nutty expression of its creator’s artistic impulses. Rejoice that the chill and the damp have returned.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
91
Sep 7, 2022
Von Trier occupies the same position as The Wizard of Oz, and the reverent secondhand Lynchisms would suggest that he knows it. But this lineage of homage comes through most strongly in the overall atmosphere of dreams, a pervasive non-reality that is at turns wondrous and terrifying, banal and miraculous. The elasticity of what’s possible under these oneiric conditions turns the hospital into an organism unto itself.
By Charles Bramesco FULL REVIEW
88
Nov 28, 2022
In the end, it doesn’t feel like Von Trier is apologizing or accusing as much as putting another part of his life into his art. ... In a sense, it feels like a thought that has defined much of his remarkable career and he’s unpacking how that belief impacted his life and work through this ambitious five-hour film.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 28, 2022
One doesn’t need to be a fan of von Trier, a long-standing agent provocateur, or of his equally provocative cinema, to appreciate the show’s sharp assessment of incompetence carried out under the cover of occupational prestige.
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70
Sep 7, 2022
Most of the time, “Exodus” is so anarchic that von Trier and company seem to be making it up as they go along. Maybe they are, to some extent, but the irreverent and often farcical comedy benefits from a quarter-century of self-imposed creative discipline by the director.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 28, 2022
It’s disappointing to see how Exodus lines up the first two season’s soft targets for von Trier all over again and, in the process, enables not his worst and often most existing tendencies but rather his most boring.
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40
Sep 7, 2022
In the first three episodes, at least – we got more of a thin nostalgic wallow, with old running jokes revived and not much in the way of the soul-shredding showmanship and blistering image-making the Antichrist and Melancholia director has since mastered.
By Robbie Collin FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 6 User Ratings
8.2
83% Positive
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