The Kingdom (Riget): Season 3

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DR1 | Season Premiere Date: November 27, 2022

Summary: Lars von Trier's supernatural thriller returns as The Kingdom Exodus where sleepwalker Karen (Bodil Jørgenson) travels to the Copenhagen hospital where newly hired Stig Helmer Jr. (Mikael Persbrandt), the son of senior Helmer works in the neurosurgery wing.

[World premiere at the Venice Film Festival on 1 Sep 2022. To premiere in DenmarkLars von Trier's supernatural thriller returns as The Kingdom Exodus where sleepwalker Karen (Bodil Jørgenson) travels to the Copenhagen hospital where newly hired Stig Helmer Jr. (Mikael Persbrandt), the son of senior Helmer works in the neurosurgery wing.

[World premiere at the Venice Film Festival on 1 Sep 2022. To premiere in Denmark on Viaplay on 9 October 2022 and 27 Nov 2022 in the US on MUBI]… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense

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The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Nov 28, 2022

Even in this most bountiful of television eras, The Kingdom Exodus stands alone—or, rather, shoulder-to-shoulder with Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return—as a peerlessly haunting, hilarious and nutty expression of its creator’s artistic impulses. Rejoice that the chill and the damp have returned. Read full review

The Playlist Charles Bramesco

Sep 7, 2022

Von Trier occupies the same position as The Wizard of Oz, and the reverent secondhand Lynchisms would suggest that he knows it. But this lineage of homage comes through most strongly in the overall atmosphere of dreams, a pervasive non-reality that is at turns wondrous and terrifying, banal and miraculous. The elasticity of what’s possible under these oneiric conditions turns the hospital into an organism unto itself. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Feb 27, 2023

Exodus is as hyper, hilarious, and hypnotic as its prior installments. Read full review

Elizabeth Alsop

Nov 28, 2022

One doesn’t need to be a fan of von Trier, a long-standing agent provocateur, or of his equally provocative cinema, to appreciate the show’s sharp assessment of incompetence carried out under the cover of occupational prestige. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Sep 7, 2022

Most of the time, “Exodus” is so anarchic that von Trier and company seem to be making it up as they go along. Maybe they are, to some extent, but the irreverent and often farcical comedy benefits from a quarter-century of self-imposed creative discipline by the director. Read full review

The Guardian Xan Brooks

Sep 7, 2022

Undeniably Von Trier has assembled a colourful rogues gallery here. From the porters in their smocks to the chief in his suit, everyone is afforded a turn under the strip lights. But these characters are so fuelled and burdened by backstory that they’re like in-patients dragging wheeled IV drips behind them, in perpetual danger of tripping over their own feeding tubes. Read full review

The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Sep 7, 2022

In the first three episodes, at least – we got more of a thin nostalgic wallow, with old running jokes revived and not much in the way of the soul-shredding showmanship and blistering image-making the Antichrist and Melancholia director has since mastered. Read full review

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Series Overview
Season 3

77
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: November 27, 2022
- No episode information is currently available for this season
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: November 1, 1997
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: November 24, 1994