10 Reasons You Should Watch Netflix's Kingdom
6. The World Building
Taking much inspiration from real history, Kingdom fleshes out its world beautifully, bringing forward class divides, the ruthless and unfair treatment of lower class people, the rebellion of scholars and the iron-fisted rule of a corrupt family in the Cho, in the first episode alone.
Despite dropping a lot of these elements early on, the show does not let up or get boring, with the same political intrigue sparking most of the more supernatural issues faced by this world's most vulnerable victims: the poor citizens.
The zombie attacks, and the reactions to them by both the peasant class and the elite ruling class, clearly outline the mindset of these people living in this era. The noble class are treated, in every setting, as better, with this near unflappable belief that their status was given by a higher power, even when the modern audience watching sees how ridiculous this is in the face of survival.
This separation, however, makes the world more intriguing and complex, while making for an effective commentary on how this class struggle can cause the most damage (in context of not only their world--but our own).