Good cliffhangers make you wonder what else hangs in the balance. The Season 6 midseason finale of HISTORY’s Vikings ended in such a way as Ivar the Boneless (Alex Høgh Andersen) led the Rus army into Norway against his half-brother Bjorn Ironside (Alexander Ludwig). Both are sons of Ragnar Lothbrok and each has magnified traits of their
Wednesday’s episode of HISTORY’s Vikings, called Death and the Serpent, promises to be a big one in more ways than one, as we approach the meaty part of the first half of the final season. The holiday break left fans hanging onto two intense storylines. The first being Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick) and her farming village’s
The first half of the sixth and final season of Vikings has arrived at the shores of your TV week, with a two-hour premiere on the HISTORY Channel. If you’ve been following the show to this point, then you’ll be anticipating the rule of Bjorn Ironside (Alexander Ludwig) along with the rest of the rabid
HISTORY has announced the premiere date of the final season of Vikings, where we will see what the reign of King Bjorn has in store. Ever since Season 4, Vikings expanded from 10 episodes to 20, split into 10-episode halves. “I always knew how ‘Vikings’ would end and, after 89 episodes, I truly believe the
Death was knocking on the door of episode 514 of History’s Vikings, The Lost Moment, but the handful of victims whose fate was sealed left viewers shocked. We were teased at a major sacrifice and thought for a week that Ivar the Boneless (Alex Høgh Andersen) would do another one of his brothers in, Hvitserk
Season 5 of Vikings on History reached its midpoint with less bloodshed than we expected. Here TV critics Ernie Estrella and April Neale resume their discussion about this beloved dramatic series created by Michael Hirst and starring Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha, who appears to have numbered days left thanks to the insane, youngest son of
Something that I have always asked Michael Hirst was “will we ever get to Iceland?” and he’s always been dodgy and said he hoped he would one day get the opportunity. With each passing season Hirst has explored what the Viking age was beyond Ragnar Lothbrok, and now even more so as his sons’ ascension
This week’s Vikings, titled Two Journeys, is a poignant and bloody episode that brings some old favorites back into the script — and sets off a mortal face-off between a former and reigning queen who both gave the great Ragnar Lothbrok sons. Lothbrok’s first wife and, from what we see, true love of his life Lagertha
SPOILER ALERT! It’s back! Finally, History’s Vikings returns to the smallscreen and we see how things have played out with Ragnar on his little wound-licking sabbatical. This History channel drama has it all, revenge served cold and hot, familial infighting, open sea calamities and warfare, with a healthy dose of unexpected deaths with a semi-historical backdrop
The notion of mercy was not common in the world of the Northmen of History’s drama Vikings, where Kings went back on their word to each other and slaughtered their people in battles for land and dominance. Even in the Christian lands, mercy was a concept more revered on paper than in real life. In