Anyone else watch this Stephen Fry show that recently popped up on Hulu? I don't know if it's been shown in the USA in a conventional way. Fry plays a lawyer in a small town with quirky characters, solves their problems and some mysteries and follows a longer, angsty story arc about his missing-presumed-dead brother. Think Stars Hollow inhabited by Hetty Wainthroop with just a dash of Veronica Mars. Gentle humor (NOT Lord Melchott). Either it's delightful, or I'm a sucker for pretty music and quaint English countryside charm (or both).

I watched it in a marathon yesterday.

Personally, I didn't care for the music, but the rest of it was charming.

Not overly fond of Hermione Norris, but by the sixth episode, I was all right with Beatrice. Loved Phyllida Law as Aunt Auriel.

Fabrisse, it may be that only you and I are watching this show.

Besides the small-town ambience, I like mysteries that don't always have a corpse, and more nuance in characters. More than, say, in American procedurals that shall not be named but which feature very evil people and self-righteous investigators.

It's really not just the English accents. I feel somewhat this way about Canadian imports as well (the DaVinci shows, Stone....)

Well you can add one more. I can't remember where I first learned of this show, I started trying to hunt it down when I learned it starred Stephen Fry, whom I've loved since his Blackadder and Jeeves & Wooster days.

It's currently in the middle of season 3 here in Canada on Superchannel. (Which I am slightly embarrassed to admit I am paying for solely for this show. Literally I haven't watched one other thing on it so far.)

It's rather bizarrely one of those shows that, while I enjoy it, I don't have that much else to say about it. I will say I'd love to live in an English village and drive a classic car.

Me, four! I've fallen in love with this show. I accidentally discovered while browsing hulu. I think hulu adds stuff without fanfare (that I know of) and it pays to check it out beyond your favorites. And without knowing anything about it, and the title "Kingdom" wasn't particularly interesting because hulu has all kinds of shows, many that are not to my liking. Just a delight to watch in every way.
Sauvage, you've described it so well. There are so many shots of the locale and the water. Is that the ocean? An estuary? It looks definitely tidal. All the locale characters are so interesting. I get Disc 1 for Series 2 tomorrow from Netflix. Can't wait to see what happens with Mr. Snell and the secretary. Yes, Beatrice grated (a lot) at first, but by the end of Series 1 she had toned down a bit and become more human. Kingdom also has a bit of a Doc Martin feel to it. Just love watching these "local" British shows.
Hoping Netflix gets Series 3 soon! Does anyone know if this is still in production?

There's a new season starting on ITV in the UK on Sunday 7th June.

AFAIK though, that is season 3 it its first airing this side of the ocean. Didn't realize it was already airing anywhere else.

You mean it played here in Canada before the UK got it? That's a first.

Season 3 finished up last week and it ended on somewhat of a cliffhanger so the producers are looking to bring it back at least.

That sounds like there is a Series 4 coming. Yay! I get disc 2, Series 2 tomorrow. Simon has just been arrested. Will the money filled satchel get left behind for Kingdom to open and go, OH? So Beatrice left to go back to I'm guessing a mental clinic because she has to go off Prozac for the safety of her baby. Hmmmmm....loving this show!

I rather do like this series, and certainly hope there'll be a fourth series (and beyond.) It's nice to have a gentle-hearted series like this, especially one headed up by Stephen Fry. It's also nice that it's not afraid to be utterly daft at times.

Stephen Fry was on Top Gear last week. I almost didn't recognize him, he's lost so much weight.

Good heavens! This may mean returning to the Netflix fold. I've only seen what Hulu has and snippets of Season 2 on--on a well-known site that's probably violating copyright, come to think of it.

Thanks for the link, caia--SF looks great. And he's an audiobook fan, bless him, not just a audiobook star.



I wish that characteristic were a category I could use to look up entertainment. Anything that could be described that way would be a good bet for me.

I, too, found this completely by accident on hulu. Watched all six episodes of the first series over 3 days. Now I have to get my hands on series 2 and series 3. Alas, I saw on imdb that there will be no series 4. Pity. I adore Stephen Fry.