On the bright side, NBC's latest premiere "Kings" swung for the fences. It was smart, well-written, and had some great performances in it. That being said, it was boring and had no heart whatsoever.

The lead character played by Christopher Egan doesn't offer much of anything. The cast fits most of NBC's latest misses, a group of blandly good looking people. The show also tries to explain a lot of things in monologues but it just didn't work for me. The Goliath in this story was tanks. Plain old tanks. We hear a lot about how the world was blown apart and how a current war is ripping the country apart but we never really see much of it. The city looks immaculate, the countryside looked peaceful enough. At one point Egan's David points out that he doesn't like the city because the people there have no sense of the war that's going on and I just kind of nodded my head.

Robin Williams once made a joke about how he wished porn flicks were written with Shakespearean dialogue. "Kings" is essentially a mediocre soap opera with some Elizabethan flair. Clearly this show is yet another possible one-and-done for NBC, which is still looking for a flagship show to build around. Actually, they are just looking for some shows that can get any sort of audience but "Kings" isn't it.