Riget (The Kingdom)

I wondered if this good old cult story had ever been showed outside of Scandinavia just to discover that it can be bought all over the world.

I always wonder what Lars Von Trier tried to tell with this mini series on only 8 episodes and why this series was so popular in the 90's? I grew up with this and you can call it rather bizarre that a child watched this but it is me we are talking about. I have never been scared of anything.

But what I got out of watching this is that the dear mr. Von Trier is tired of how modern science outshines the spiritual part of life. How can we know that ghosts do not exist? How do we know that demons do not walk among us and make young ladies pregnant so they get a bizarre looking creature of a baby and how about zombies? What I know from zombies is that they were first seen in voodoo rituals and that you cannot see they are dead. Just like dr. Krogshøj.
Besides that Lars Von Trier has never been afraid to say what he thinks and mean it. Look at all the monkey business going on among the doctors and professors. And how much they sacrifice for science, are they like insane? And they find spiritual mrs. Drusse crazy when she tells about Mary, the girl who's haunting the hospital and was killed by her father, former dr. Krüger who's also the devil himself and who's being reborn and... I already lost you right?
The smartest people at this hospital are the two dishwashers with the down syndrome.

Well, if you are not from Scandinavia and you choose to watch this rather crazy series then there are a few things you will not understand as the hate/love scenario between Sweden and Denmark and the language issue. It is rarely presented though.

So why did it break off so sudden with an ending that makes no sense?
The Kingdom 3 should had been made and the manus was written but then Mrs. Drusse died, Dr. Helmer died and the male dishwasher died and it was blown off. Sadly, because you actually wants to know what happens next. But I heard that Stephen King bought the rights and made an ending. His version is called 'Kingdom Hospital' and I cannot wait to watch it!

So if you want to watch this series the be prepared to take good with evil!

See ya!