Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 6 of Season 1 of Kingdom, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Ju Ji-hoon as Crown Prince Yi Chang, Bae Doona as Seo-bi, Ryu Seung-ryon as Cho Hak ju, Kim Sang-ho as Mou Young, Kim Sung-kyu as Yeong shin, and Kim Hye-jun as the Queen Consort. We discuss:

• How Season 2 of Kingdom dropped at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic - crazy!
• The power struggle between Chief State Councilor Cho Hak ju and the Queen Consort.
• How Lord Ahn put himself squarely in the Crown Prince’s camp when his archers shot the palace guards.
• How the Crown Prince seems like a new person. He’s determined and confident when he strikes down the chief palace guard.
• Who might be the traitor among the Crown Prince’s companions?
• The thousands of people amassing at the southern gates of Sangju. The magistrate doesn’t want to let them in, but the Crown Prince decides that the magistrate is NOT the person to make that decision.
• The Crown Prince’s plan to protect Sangju by taking advantage of the bodies of water surrounding Sangju.
• The Queen’s evil plan to have a baby boy by taking pregnant, peasant women and waiting for one of them to have a boy. The queen is not pregnant after all!
• Joanna’s theory that the queen might have had a miscarriage or gotten her period the day she asked her head court lady to burn her clothes because they had blood on them.
• How the queen punished the court lady who gossiped about her clothing.
• Why Cho Hak ju left Hanyang to go to Mungyeong Saejae, why he’s traveling with a zombie, and what his plans might be regarding the Crown Prince.
• How Seo bi finds the resurrection plant in the Frozen Valley close to Sangju. But while in the cave, she and Cheo Beom Pal are trapped by zombies, who have come out during the day! Seo bi realizes that it's the temperature, not the day and night, that controls when the zombies come out.
• How the Crown Prince and the men have an uneventful evening, but come morning, when they think they have a day’s respite, they realize that a zombie horde is coming!
• The versatile Kim Sung-kyu, the actor who plays Young shin

Next week, we will start Season 2 of Kingdom!

References

• COVID 19 from the US Centers for Disease Control
• Forbes review of Kingdom from March 2020