The Kingdom Exodus, the third instalment of Lars von Trier’s sepia-toned television series, is as misanthropic and hilarious, perhaps more so, than its predecessors. Von Trier satirizes everything from purported wokeness to Danish–Swedish relations, the more idiosyncratic Danish social customs, and most significantly, xenophobia. Like all of von Trier’s films, at the centre is his steadfast belief that human beings may like to talk about reason but, when you dig a little deeper, they are far from rational.
