Chinese fans welcome return of S.Korean period zombie series ‘Kingdom’ as they stay home amid COVID-19 pandemic
Staff of Common Studio in Japan play as zombies. Picture: VCG
The second season of Kingdom, Netflix’s first unique South Korean collection, was launched on the platform on Friday. The collection has turn out to be a favourite of many Chinese language who’ve needed to keep at house amid the COVID-19 pandemic resulting from its zombie horror theme.
The horror collection is ready throughout Korea’s Joseon interval, a number of years after the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598). Every season thus far has solely consisted of six episodes, however the award-winning director and scriptwriter, the movie-quality forged and the tight plot in addition to season climax have made the present the subsequent large South Korean horror work following Practice to Busan, a movie with the same theme launched in 2016.
Chinese language netizens have given the collection an 8.6/10 on Chinese language media evaluate website Douban.
The collection depicts the story of Crown Prince Lee Chang, who turns into embroiled in a political conspiracy and is compelled to embark upon a mission to research the unfold of a mysterious plague that has beset the present emperor and the nation’s southern provinces.
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Netizens had been captured by the terrifying scenes depicting the lead characters combating with zombies and praised it as “one of the best costume drama about zombies.”
“I’ve stayed at house for a couple of month and the thriller has relieved my stress and anxiousness attributable to a boring and easy life,” one netizen commented on China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo.
Many netizens agreed with this view and stated that watching thrillers has turn out to be a great way for them to loosen up.
“After I discover myself utterly terrified by the story, I completely overlook in regards to the pandemic,” one other wrote.
