A painstaking amount of time is spent getting to know our heroes and villains, which is great, but it simply doesn’t have a pay-off because we never really get to see them in any form of danger, and so there’s never a time when we’re in fear of their lives or caring for their safety. Given that episode twelve ended with the promise that “some will live, and some will die,” there’s also a great sense of injustice that the series failed to follow up on that promise, because nobody dies, everybody lives and leaves the hospital sunny-faced and care-free. It’s been quite a lengthy visit at the kingdom; there have been some very enjoyable episodes, a few laughs, some outlandishly quirky moments … Unfortunate then that all of this boils down to an incredibly clunky, disappointing anti-climax. In future, King will need to deliver far more scares if he intends on keeping his crown as the master of horror. Whoever gave him that title must be pretty easy to scare, anyway.
