vikings

If you would like to read any of my individual episode reviews, click here. Another year, another season down for the History channel TV show Vikings. Season 4 of the show was probably one of the most ambitious season of the show’s run, not only in story narrative arcs and character development, but rather in scale and scope, with a lofty total of 20 episodes that divided the season into a first half and second...

Hamm….Wow….and interesting. Some of my first initial thoughts after seeing the season 4 finale of Vikings. It was definitely an important episode with a huge victory Ragnar’s sons and a couple shocked filled moments to close out the season in a very interesting way, but with a few more question marks instead of exclamation points. Don’t get me wrong, I liked this episode and was satisfied with it, but leaves more lingering questions rather than...

Things are coming to ahead in season 4’s penultimate episode “On the Eve”. This was more of a contained episode (not the multitude of narrative threads as it has been in the past couple of episodes), so this review might be a bit shorter than my normal ones. Nevertheless, this episode was pretty good as it had plenty of action, a few shocking moments, and a build up to the battle in Wessex.

“How the little piggies will grunt when they learn that the old boar suffered!” Such words were echoed in this new episode of Vikings, which was appropriately titled “Revenge”. And it was bloody and gruesome as the sons of Ragnar finally got their chance to avenge their father’s death. However, before that took place (during the last ten minutes of the episode), the rest of “Revenge” was filled with sinister deeds, a marriage, a sacrifice, and...