Kings

Since I have the day off, I agreed to wait for the furnace repairmen - who were supposed to come before noon. So my day was shot until 3:30 pm. However, I did get to watch Kings for the first time (thanks, hulu!). Got all the way through episode 4. It makes me think of I, Claudius. (Mostly Queen Rose, I suppose, like Livia in her machinations.) The parallels with the biblical story are interesting, but almost a little distracting because there are so many details (characters, subplots, etc.) that don't map to the original. It's interesting in its own right, though. The first episode was a little too much of a war movie for me, but it gets better quickly....