This week’s Vikings is a reckoning and a test. The penultimate episode means we will have only the finale after this and then must wait another year for our Vikings fix. Bjorn’s partner Torvi is the first one to spy some out-of-towner misfits in the Kattegat village. She suspects something is amiss in town at the
The energy of Vikings post-Ragnar Lothbrok could have been the undoing of the series. Luckily we have such a cast and interesting array of characters that though the exit of lead actor Travis Fimmel as Ragnar stung for fans, it has been soothed by the interplay of his sons and the power vacuum it left
The post mortem of Ragnar’s assassination at the hands of King Ecbert and King Aelle are being realized by his sons on Vikings. But will his first-born Bjorn and his baby Ivar — born of different mothers — play nicely together? Tonight the great army is set upon the early English kingdom just as Aethulwulf’s
Instead of wallowing in the death and misery of this past season, in the latest episode of Vikings the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok use Odin’s grave message as a rallying point call to arms to regroup and assemble the largest military strike Western Europe had seen to that point, “The Great Army”, also known by
This week’s Vikings is titled ‘The Great Army’ and is the beginning of Ivar’s reign of terror upon the Lothbrok enemies. He is set on returning to Wessex [England] to avenge his father Ragnar’s death at the hands of King Aelle and King Ecbert. Ecbert spared Ivar and delivered Ragnar to the Mercia King, Aelle, whose
Have you come down from the last big arc in History Channel’s Vikings yet? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t read on until you’re current with this latest season. Then turn your longboat around and come back to this space because I wouldn’t want to spoil anything for you. For those of
Welcome to the wake of Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel). No one truly knows his fate apart from those in England, however the vikings all assume the worst has happened. Ivar (Alex Høgh Anderson) knows because he was the last viking to talk to him, and he was given a game-plan of revenge, but he has only one
This week on Vikings, the trauma of losing his father at the hands of King Aelle via King Ecbert and his mother being shot in the back by a cold-blooded Lagertha has unleashed the beast in Ivar. Ivar the Boneless, if we go by historical accounts, was the most feared and aggressive of all of Ragnar’s storied
The demise of Ragnar at the hands of a King whom he thought very little of was wrought with emotion in what was a gut-wrenching farewell. Ivar’s emotional goodbye where Ragnar tells him he is destined to be ruthless and avenge his death. Ecbert’s cowardly abdication of his role in Ragnar’s death, becoming an anonymous spectator. Aelle’s
SPOILERS! Don’t read if you have not seen the latest episode of Vikings M&C spoke to Alyssa Sutherland about her character Queen Aslaug, who has been a powerful force on Vikings and has provoked strong emotions amongst fans. It’s never easy being the other woman, and even when history books say that the main character of History’s