User Reviews

I was annoyed every time I saw Margrethe, and I almost hated the series for not killing her earlier, but she kept coming back with her idiocy.

So for the sake of keeping the viewers it was a long overdue move to remove her.

Anyhow her plot was slightly overdone and dragged out way too long.

What happened to this awesome series? It keeps on getting worse, with this episode being the lowest point so far. It was weird enough already that Lagertha all of a sudden got white hair in between the seasons, but now Bjorn also turned into a fairly one dimensional character whose main purpose seems to be to be angry with everyone and getting new women to join his bed. In this episode a new female character was introduced to get married to the king, just to end up in Bjorns bed at the end of the day after hardly exchanging any words. Heahmunds actor is overdoing it with the acting, always speaking in kind of a batman voice and seemingly appearing badass, but it gets laughable. The Floki storyline doesn't present anything interesting anymore and serves only as a background for some nice icelandic panoramic shots. It really is a shame what happened to the series.

I literally cannot believe this show has become this bad. We know Ivar as a clever commander but now he believes he can have a child by making his wife lick his hand? Bjorn sleeps with alfred's wife. What was that? Show has turned from good acting and teaching history to complicated relationships and betrayal. I do not want to see this if I did I would probably watch Indian TV series. I did not even finish the episode fully.

Well no one expect accurate with history tottaly but what is this? Vikings became a bed story espacially lagertha's.

When did Last Kingdom become the leading Vikings series? When did this fall so far? The king is allowing them to serve in the army. Good. Then they suddenly can move around freely in the castle and can occasionally run into the kings room to shout at him? No guards anywhere? The new princess is just occasionally roaming the market and falling in love with Bjorn. Sure. Haemond can also just run around where ever he want wrecking havoc. No guards anywhere.

This is satire. The actors are overplaying it so hard that you can already see that it has become just a joke. Haemonds batman style is so silly, the plot is silly and it's just a shame.

The main illness is the small world syndrome. It might have a special name but this is what I call it. In a series you always have a small cast with protagonists. But those should live in a big world. These Vikings aren't anymore in such a world. England consists of roughly 20 people, when they go to forests they literally see eachother. They are living in the castle together and talking all the time. It's just rare scenes where you see more people but when at the end Haemond can just go to wherever he wants and kill whatever he wants then what's the point. Just kill Alfred and the other 10 inhabitants of England and be king lol. The feeling of it is that it's just your casual soap series in TV which lives from drama dialogues.

Tonight's episode was all about Soap. You got Lag and the Priest, terrible acting and character Ivar and his "queen", terrible acting Alfred and his "prospective queen" and Bjoke.

The Priest visiting the new Bishop, where the Bishop should have been killed right there and then. No, we have to wait for spy sex, letter and another visit for the killing.

We got Alfred and his terrible acting. Who thinks this guy can act? Seriously!? A very poor portrayal of Alfred the Great. He says he's lines then walks out. His mother arranges a marriage and this "woman" sleeps with Bjoke. He's negotiating with Ubbe, is basically a suckup. He's afraid that he's not strong enough to take on the nobles. So, it's all a setup for when he kills all the nobles. The big problem? I know Ecbert and Senator you are no Ecbert. Ubbe is a decent actor, but he's no Ragnar. So, what we're left with is a stale setup.

The Priest is a decent actor, but he's a one trick pony. Lag is sidelined. She's not a great actress. But given good material, it works. Bjoke is also not a great actor. But again given decent material it works. Floki is a great character and actor. But he's out tripping with a bunch of losers. Ivar the Terrible. This guy is a joke. Terrible acting. He was great as a supporting actor for Ragnar. Ragnar was great. Great character and acting. Rollo shows his face then disappears in disappointment.

They killed off mad Margreth in such a loser way. It takes a team of assassins throwing knives at her, as she pleads for life. Loser scene.

While watching this you hope for quality and we may be biased to like it because of the shows past. But while writing and thinking of how this whole episode went down the disappointment is clear. We have no lead character. We have no lead storyline. We have poor actors spitting poor dialogue. Watching scenes with Floki and the waterfall was nice, but I'd rather watch the nature channel for that.

I own the first 4 seasons on DVD and have watched multiple times and will revisit in the future. I have no reason to buy or watch season 5 again. I'll finish watching the rest of the season, and may continue, but I don't have much hope. There was always Soap in these shows to build some kind of intrigue or politics, but this episode was the dumps.