List of Kingdom (American TV series) episodes
Kingdom is an American drama television series created by Byron Balasco. The series premiered on October 8, 2014 on the Audience Network[1] and concluded on August 2, 2017. It stars Frank Grillo, Kiele Sanchez, Matt Lauria, Jonathan Tucker, Nick Jonas with Joanna Going. Season one consists of ten episodes.[2] DirecTV renewed the series for a 20-episode second season, 10 of which aired in 2015 and 10 in 2016.[3] On July 7, 2016, it was renewed for a third and final season.[4]
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 10 | October 8, 2014 | December 10, 2014 | |
| 2 | 20 | 10 | October 14, 2015 | December 16, 2015 |
| 10 | June 1, 2016 | August 3, 2016 | ||
| 3 | 10 | May 31, 2017 | August 2, 2017 | |
Episodes
Season 1 (2014)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Set Yourself on Fire" | Adam Davidson | Byron Balasco | October 8, 2014 | |
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Alvey Kulina (Frank Grillo) is an ex-MMA fighter and is considered a legend. He and his girlfriend Lisa Prince (Kiele Sanchez) struggle with keeping their gym, Navy St. financially stable, while Alvie's youngest son Nate (Nick Jonas) prepares for an upcoming fight. Nate goes home where he lives with his brother and Alvey's oldest son Jay (Jonathan Tucker), who has a drug and alcohol problem. Jay used to fight but let his addictions get in the way. Meanwhile, Lisa's ex-fiance Ryan Wheeler (Matt Lauria) is released on parole from prison and is sent to a halfway house. He used to be an excellent fighter until he got arrested and sent to prison for four years. Alvie knows how good Ryan is and how having Ryan as a fighter for his gym can earn him good publicity, so he goes to give him a proposition about fighting again, something that Ryan is reluctant on. Nate has his first fight and wins, his opponent is played by Current UFC Featherweight contender Cub Swanson. On his way home from the fight he is jumped by two thugs that Alvey had beat up out of self defense earlier that week. They tell Nate to tell his dad "what's up" and leave his unconscious body in the alley. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Glass Eye" | Adam Davidson | Byron Balasco | October 15, 2014 | |
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Lisa tells Alvey the reality of the gyms financial situation while he tries to convince her that having Ryan fight at the gym is their solution. Ryan adjusts to life in the halfway house, getting to know Keith (Paul Walter Hauser), his mentally unstable roommate. Jay tells Alvey about his desire to start fighting again but after his drug and alcohol problems and skipping out on fights, Alvey refuses to help him until he sees that Jay is serious about his dedication. The family reels at the news of Nate's attack and Alvey wants answers as to who would do this to his son. Nate says he doesn't remember anything that happened or who jumped him, but that's not the truth. He is left with a huge scar on his head and is left to do physical therapy. He is told that he can start fighting inside six months if everything goes well. Mac (Mac Brandt), Alvey’s HGH supplier, shows up at the gym to train and to also set up Nate with pain killers. When Nate and Jay go home, Jay puts Nate to bed, makes sure he has everything and then takes one of Nate's pills when he's not looking. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Piece of Plastic" | Michael Morris | Alex Metcalf | October 22, 2014 | |
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Ryan is settling into a new job killing rats that his parole officer set up for him. His roommate Keith tells him when he was 10 years old, his father murdered his mother with a hammer before shooting himself in the backyard. Alvey goes to meet with Ryan's parole officer to try to get him out of killing rats and to get a job at the gym so he can start training. Much to his dismay, Ryan's parole officer declines Alvey's request and says that killing rats is a better job than working at a gym where he might get angry which is what put him in jail in the first place. Nate begins physical therapy with Tatiana (Meaghan Rath), a young physical therapist that is attracted to Nate. Jay goes to visit his mother, Christina (Joanna Going) while she's working as a hooker on the streets. He gives her money and tries to get her to come have dinner with her but she refuses. Lisa bails Jay out of jail and he goes to pay Christina's pimp, Terry (Jamie Harris) a visit. He "buys" his mom for the night, not letting Terry know that he's her son. Jay gives her a phone with his number programmed into a speed dial, and he tells her to call if she ever needs help. By the end of the night, she calls Jay to meet him for lunch. She apologizes for her reaction to him showing up the other night, not wanting him to see her like that. Lisa and Jay agree that she will promote him and try to get him fights if he is serious about fighting again, knowing how good he is as a fighter when he puts his mind to it. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Flowers" | Michael Morris | Fernanda Coppel | October 29, 2014 | |
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Jay is shopping at a hardware store, picking up wood, a drill, heavy-duty locks and goes home to build a new bedroom door with the locks he purchased. He also puts bars on his bedroom window. Jay then meets his mother for lunch, where she admits that she needs to change her life. Jay offers his place for her to stay out while she figures things out but she declines, to have her stay with him and Nate, she thinks about moving somewhere else to get a clean slate. It’s just an idea she had. When they walk out to his car, he puts Christina in a sleeper hold, ties her hands together and put her in his trunk. He brings her back to his house and places her in the room with the newly acquired door and locks her in there, effectively forcing her into detox. He goes to her apartment to get her some of her clothes and runs into Terry. Jay takes Terry's gun from him, takes off his shirt and beats Terry, also hurting his right hand. Lisa starts making calls to try to get Jay the fight she promised him. She finally gets in touch with Bucky DeMarco (Jamie Kennedy), a promoter who's willing to take a chance on Jay. At the gym, Bucky agrees to put Jay in a fight, but only if it's the welterweight division and he has to make weight in three days. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Eat Your Own Cooking" | Gary Fleder | Vladimir Cvetko | November 5, 2014 | |
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Alvey has fantasies about revenge for Nate and starts to question how in control he is of his anger. Lisa's father, Ron (Bruce Davison) comes to town and wants to have lunch. Lisa is reluctant as she and her father have a tumultuous relationship but Alvey says he will go with her. At the lunch, her father says that Alvey is too old for Lisa, questions what they would do if she wants to have kids when Alvey doesn't. Nate and Tatiana start sleeping together, but is resistant to letting her get too close, he also blows her off the next night to keep an eye on his mother who is still locked in Jay's room. There is a photographer at the gym to get a look at Navy St., and he was told by Lisa to not get in Ryan's face which is exactly what he does. Ryan starts to get angry and threatens the photographer. Alvey puts Jay in the ring with Ryan, just to see how well they do together and notices that Jay isn't throwing his right hand. Jay's plan is to get through the fight then claim he hurt his hand in the fight, therefore making Bucky pay for it. By the time the fight happens, Jay gets beaten badly in but somehow comes back and gets his opponent in a submission and chokes him unconscious to win the fight. Bucky is notorious for not paying his fighters so Lisa steals a wheel off of Bucky’s car in exchange for the $700 he owes Jay. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Please Refrain from Crying" | Gary Fleder | Alex Metcalf | November 12, 2014 | |
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Lisa goes with Ryan to visit his parents for the first time since he was released from prison. He goes to seek forgiveness from his dad, who is paralyzed from the neck down due to Ryan getting angry and pushing him, which is the reason he was sent to prison. Back at the halfway house, Michael (Ronnie Gene Blevins) is the bully of the place and likes to consistently pick on and push Keith around. Ryan stands up to him as Keith won't stand up for himself. Jay and Nate finally let Christina out of the room and she tries to find normalcy by spending the day with Nate and making the boys dinner. She also goes with Nate to his physical therapy session only to be told that another therapist will take Tatiana's place because she doesn't feel it appropriate anymore. Jay tells Alvey to come over for dinner, not telling him that Christina, who is still his wife, will be there. With Lisa with Ryan, Alvey is left to give Jay his fight money. He also fills him in on the thugs who beat up Nate. They agree that they won't do anything just so Nate won't worry about them. Alvey also asks for Jay's help on how to get Nate to open up to him. At the dinner, when Christina lets it slip that she went with Nate to his physical therapy, Alvey gets angry and asks to speak with her inside the house. After that have an intense one on one conversation, Alvey leaves and when he gets home, he tells Lisa that Christina is back and living with the boys. At the halfway house, Keith and Ryan are working in the kitchen when Michael enters. After his attempts to pick on Keith don't get a response, he turns to Ryan and asks him how his dad's doing. Instead of getting angry and hitting Michael, Ryan walks away only to see that the butcher's knife is missing. He turns around and before Ryan can stop Keith, Keith is stabbing Michael in the chest. Ryan tackles Keith to the ground and moves the butcher's knife away from Michael and grabs a cleaver from the knife cabinet. He then cuts Keith a few times to make it look like Michael attacked him before putting pressure on Keith's wounds and calling for help. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Animator/Annihilator" | Dennie Gordon | Ryan Farley | November 19, 2014 | |
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After what happened to Keith, Ryan moves into the gym. Being around Lisa, he confesses his still-present feelings for her. When she rebuffs him, he goes out and gets alcohol to drink by himself when everyone leaves the gym for the night. He gets drunk and starts tearing the gym apart, peeing on the mat and shattering the floor-to-ceiling mirrors. Alvey is alerted by the alarm company that the alarms are going off and he says he'll go down to the gym to take care of it. When he arrives, he finds Ryan a drunk mess and the gym destroyed. Ryan starts saying how Alvey will bend to his will which gets Ryan a head butt from Alvey as a response and the two start to fist fight. They fight before Alvey starts to coach Ryan, telling him to put his left hand on his left cheek before heading outside and calling Garo (Bryan Callen), a good fight promoter, to tell him to set up a press conference for Ryan as he thinks Ryan is ready. Christina wants the bars off her window and she wants to go shopping, which leads to her taking Jay and Nate to a thrift shop. Inside, while Christina and Jay shop, Nate runs into an old boyfriend but tells his mom and brother it's "just a friend". and the boys settle down with their now clean mom. Christina visits Alvey at the gym but meets Lisa first, telling her how gorgeous she is and much younger than she thought. She tells Alvey he should be proud of his gym, and that she's ready for a divorce and to move on. She tells him she doesn't want half and that she wants to be civil about it. Lisa doesn't buy what Christina is saying, but Alvey thinks that Christina is in a place where he can actually talk to her again, so he promises to handle it. When Jay gets home after signing papers for his upcoming fight, he finds the guys who beat up Nate leaving his house with his mom crying inside. He decides to do something to them. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "The Gentle Slope" | Dennie Gordon | Tom Garrigus | November 26, 2014 | |
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Jay searches for Nate's assailants using their license plate number. After he get their address, he goes home to teach Christina how to shoot a gun and then prepares to visit the thugs that night. Ryan, Alvey and Garo goes to the press conference to reintroduce Ryan back into the fighting world. After the conference, Alvey and Christina have dinner to discuss the divorce and the boys. She says that the divorce can be simple, and that she doesn't want to fight. They reminisce about things and when dinner is over, they walk outside. One thing leads to another and they find an alley close by and have sex. Meanwhile, Lisa visits Ryan to return his engagement ring. Ryan admits that his fight with Alvey was about her and how he felt like Alvey stole Lisa from him. Lisa tells him that his fantasy about the two of them being together again won't happen. But he still tells her he's still in love with her, even more so now but she leaves anyway. After the fight, Jay goes to the thugs house, ready to kill them but when he breaks in and finds one of them sleeping, he also finds a small child in bed with him. Instead of killing anyone, he creeps back out of the house and vomits. When Alvey gets home, he and Lisa get into a fight, which ends with hitting him and leaving. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Cut Day" | Tim Iacofano | Ryan Farley & Tom Garrigus | December 3, 2014 | |
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Alvey decides to escape away to the Sunset Hawaiian hotel without telling anyone where he's gone. Meanwhile, Jay and Ryan both have to lose a combined 30 pounds in order to make weight. Jay has an easier time losing his 10 pounds than Ryan does trying desperately to lose his 20 pounds. In between frantically working out in sweatpants and trash bags and sitting in the sauna, Nate tells Jay that he's not going to press charges against the thugs who beat him up, with Jay being surprisingly call about it. Lisa is frantically trying to get hold of Alvey who has spent his days getting drunk, tanning and hanging out with the owner of the hotel, (Andre Royo). He finally talks to Lisa, only to tell her that he's ok and he'll be there for the fights. Nate tells Lisa she doesn't deserve that and that they love her, which then gets Ryan to confess to Jay that he's still in love with Lisa. When Ryan's parole officer shows up, he finds out that Ryan has been skipping his job to come to the gym after Alvey paid off the owner to say he's been picking Ryan up for work. In order to not get in trouble and report him for going against his probabion officer, his parole officer tells him he's a salipheliac, someone who is turned on by salty thing, especially sweat, and says if Ryan gives him his sweatsuit, he'll keep quiet. Ryan gives him his shirt while his parole officer goes to his car to jack off. Nate is trying to convince Mac to give him some HGH. When Alvey calls Lisa, he asks her if she still loves him and when she doesn't respond, he hangs up. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "King Beast" | Tim Iacofano | Tom Garrigus & Byron Balasco | December 10, 2014 | |
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With Ryan's first fight back, everyone is focused on Jay and Ryan. While Jay and Ryan eat a healthy breakfast, Nate secretly injects himself with HGH. He also talks Christina into coming to the fight, if only just to stay in the dressing room. Alvey goes home to talk to Lisa and tells her he'll make things right. Instead, she him that she didn't miss him and he asks if she's going to leave him. She says that she thinks he wants her to and he doesn't respond. At the fight, Jay wins his fight by TKO, and Ryan knocks out his opponent in the 3 round. Lisa goes to Jay's after party and there Ryan asks how he can make her feel better. He kisses her but she pushes him off. Alvey and Christina have a conversation at his house about how the boys see them differently and how Alvey thinks they don't love him. She tells him that they are great boys, so he must have done something right. Alvey tries to advance on her but she tells him that they can't sleep together again. When she leaves, she gets into the car with Terry. When Jay wakes up to find his mother gone but when he gets into the living room, she returns. But the look on her face, he knows where she went. Nate left the after party to go to a club and drink but isn't allowed to enter. He leaves the club with a guy who gives him a blowjob. | ||||||
Season 2 (2015–16)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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| 11 | 1 | "New Money" | Craig Zisk | Byron Balasco | October 14, 2015 |
| 12 | 2 | "Simulations" | Craig Zisk | Byron Balasco | October 21, 2015 |
| 13 | 3 | "Broken or Missing" | Michael Morris | Alex Metcalf | October 28, 2015 |
| 14 | 4 | "Be First" | Michael Morris | Bruce Rasmussen | November 4, 2015 |
| 15 | 5 | "Happy Hour" | Gary Fleder | Vladimir Cvetko | November 11, 2015 |
| 16 | 6 | "Pink at Night" | Gary Fleder | Peter Noah | November 18, 2015 |
| 17 | 7 | "The Demon Had a Spell" | Michael Morris | Story by : Alex Metcalf Teleplay by : Byron Balasco | November 25, 2015 |
| 18 | 8 | "Smoker" | Michael Morris | Bruce Rasmussen | December 2, 2015 |
| 19 | 9 | "Living Down" | Sidney Sidell | Peter Noah | December 9, 2015 |
| 20 | 10 | "Traveling Alone" | Sidney Sidell | Byron Balasco | December 16, 2015 |
| 21 | 11 | "Lay and Pray" | Gary Fleder | Byron Balasco | June 1, 2016 |
| 22 | 12 | "No Fault" | Gary Fleder | Byron Balasco | June 8, 2016 |
| 23 | 13 | "Woke Up Lonely" | John Dahl | Alex Metcalf | June 15, 2016 |
| 24 | 14 | "Do Not Disturb" | John Dahl | Patrick Aison | June 22, 2016 |
| 25 | 15 | "Take Pills" | Padraic McKinley | Jon Frye | June 29, 2016 |
| 26 | 16 | "Halos" | Padraic McKinley | Bruce Rasmussen | July 6, 2016 |
| 27 | 17 | "Help Wanted" | Dennie Gordon | Byron Balasco | July 13, 2016 |
| 28 | 18 | "Cut Man" | Dennie Gordon | Peter Noah | July 20, 2016 |
| 29 | 19 | "Late to Leave" | Byron Balasco | Byron Balasco | July 27, 2016 |
| 30 | 20 | "No Sharp Objects" | Byron Balasco | Byron Balasco | August 3, 2016 |
Season 3 (2017)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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| 31 | 1 | "Wolf Tickets" | Sidney Sidell | Byron Balasco | May 31, 2017 |
| 32 | 2 | "Ritual" | Sydney Sidell | Byron Balasco | June 7, 2017 |
| 33 | 3 | "Thank You, Boys" | Michael Morris | Byron Balasco | June 14, 2017 |
| 34 | 4 | "Headhunter" | Michael Morris | Byron Balasco | June 21, 2017 |
| 35 | 5 | "Please Give" | Adam Davidson | Enzo Mileti & Scott Wilson | June 28, 2017 |
| 36 | 6 | "All Talk" | Adam Davidson | Jennifer Ames & Steve Turner | July 5, 2017 |
| 37 | 7 | "Platinum Level" | Michael Morris | Jon Frye | July 12, 2017 |
| 38 | 8 | "Old Pueblo" | Michael Morris | Byron Balasco | July 19, 2017 |
| 39 | 9 | "Cactus" | Padraic McKinley | Byron Balasco | July 26, 2017 |
| 40 | 10 | "Lie Down in the Light" | Padraic McKinley | Byron Balasco | August 2, 2017 |
References
- ^ "DirecTV Names Frank Grillo, Nick Jonas Series 'Kingdom'". Variety.com. June 12, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2014.
- ^ "DirecTV Drama Series 'Navy St' Gets New Title, Premiere Date". Deadline.com. June 12, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2014.
- ^ "'Kingdom' Picked Up For 20 More Episodes By DirecTV". Deadline.com. October 17, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
- ^ "Kingdom Renewed for Season 3". TVLine. July 7, 2016. Retrieved July 7, 2016.