Vikings: Valhalla

I have been looking for a while for a series that would capture me from the beginning. I have seen too many shows that had great starts but quickly started to deteriorate after the first season. I found it in this show. Great acting, good action, an enjoyable pace and depth in character development. I binged this over a few weeks and for me it is fine that it stops after 3 seasons.

Yet this doesn't qualify as a masterpiece for me, like the original Vikings. The plot is well written, but there are a few plot holes to discover. Furthermore, the 3rd season and ending felt like a little bit rushed and maybe even unsatisfying. If they would've stretched out the 3rd season into 2 seasons, I think they would've been able to do the series more right.

Long story short: If you are looking for a very enjoyable series about the viking age with some great acting, this is the show to watch!

... to "the last kingdom", which is my standard for these types of shows. No idea about historical accuracy, but simply found myself getting bored with it after 3 episodes. I'm sure a lot of work went into it, but just not for me.

I love this genre; I watch all series and movies set in past eras. Some are spectacular, while others are lamentable. This case has some lamentable aspects and others that are excellent: The production, acting, costumes, and setting maintain the excellence of Vikings.

A black countess in Norway is absurd; there's no need for forced inclusion.

The plot jumps very long distances and sometimes seems illogical.

Among the characters, I think some are very well-developed and interesting, like Canute or Leif, while others, like Freydis and Harald, never quite convince.

I have to say that it is far from the level of *Vikings*, but it is still a good series.

Season 3 is the best by far,normally the series tense to take the downfall but not vikings valhalla,every episode was better than the other.

I have enjoyed the drama,conspiracy,compat fight,the love with the characters and the eagerness that everyone has for POWER When it comes being a king there are no feelings, brothers against brothers and families falling apart in a day just foe the characters to please their ambitions and dreama.

WHICH I didn't enjoy that much are few details, like black in Norway, I mean I understand the inclusiveness etc but come on we talking about Norway,try to make it realistic I know that the story is made up but I don't care is not a documentary.

Firstly the people claiming that there are fake low rating reviews here are way off base. The full season dropped on Netflix in Europe nearly 20 hours ago, and the first negative review occurred 14 hours ago, plenty of time to have seen eight total 50 minute episodes. So let's talk about the show, not downvoting claimed to be fake by other people who don't know how netflix works across continents.

The fact is this show is a pale and shallow follow-on. The dialogue is unbearably predictable, the acting awful (although with a few exceptions the original show had mediocre acting), the plot just silly. And while we can all tolerate some anachronisms in historical fiction, this show is just chock full of cringeworthy anachronisms both in detail and in general. We are not talking about changes in historicity for dramatic effect. This show is wholesale inversion of basic history, not to mention battle tactics, often clothing, and social interaction. It is completely idiotic

As far as wokeness, sure the makers can have one out of 3,000 fighters be women (and that is the proportion the burial data, shock combat injury data suggest) , and one out of 100,000 11th century Vikings in Norway have significant African ancestry (although Berber, not sub-Saharan). But one has to ask what is the point of doing this bizarre woke and absurd demographic portrayal at a time and place where it simply is not how represented? It is clearly intentional. Moreover the reason people note the intentionality is that the wokeness is not about prior "non-woke" portrayals of Vikings being corrected: In fact there simply was no prior false demographics in film and TV somehow ignoring African Vikings. Rather this wokeness is put in place and worn on the sleeve to distract from what is just very bad writing.