In its first minute, Kingdom tells viewers everything they need to know about Alvey Kulina and the world he lives in, and it does so with very little dialogue. A show about a former mixed martial artist/father who now runs an MMA gym in Venice, Calif., Kingdom begins with Alvey on a run, pushing himself physically the way any professional athlete would. But when he comes across two gangsters who pull their guns on him, things appear to take a turn for the worse. That is until Alvey, completely unaffected by the dangerous situation, takes them both down with nothing but his fists, his head … and his knee. From there, he shakes it off and gets back to his run like nothing happened. Welcome to Kingdom. —Samantha Highfill