All involved are dedicated to the cause of making Vikings one of television’s most striking series. It’s also emerged as one of the best, evolving from a guilty pleasure at first to a first-rate tale of substance and even subtlety mixed with the cold steel of primal warfare.
Hirst transports us to a fascinating and brutal world, combining fact with fast-paced fiction into a show, the likes of which come around all too infrequently. As Ragnar does, so too does Season Three of Vikings expand its worldview beyond the inlet at Kattegat and into Medieval Europe, promising battles, glory, and adventures not to be missed.
This is another great season of Vikings. Some epic moments with Ragnar. His legend grows and Bjorn is good in this season too. This is a must watch once again.
I loved this shows first two seasons, but they really upped the ante with the third season. Once again the show gives us terrfific cast performances(Travis Fimmel as Ragnar continues to be the highlight of the series), and amazing storytelling.
Here is a series for an American audience that grants us the intelligence to be able to read subtitles, which are deployed to help convey the tart flavor of the various tongues spoken in the show. Combine this with the show’s frequently lovely visuals, and Vikings remains the kind of burly soap opera that appeals to an ever-wider audience.
This is a show that knows exactly what viewers expect of it, and over the course of its three seasons, the saga of reticent raider Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) has shown increasing assuredness and has unpretentiously and reliably supplied exciting and bloody adventures.
While this is essentially the popcorn version of a quality serialized drama--with more overt appeal to men than most--Vikings--is the sort of nifty endeavor that can give the idea of shamelessly marauding in search of loot a good name.
Vikings has benefited all along from the accomplished, subdued performances of a number of its cast, including Mr. Byrne, Mr. Roache, Clive Standen as Ragnar’s warlike brother and both Nathan O’Toole and Alexander Ludwig, who play Ragnar’s son Bjorn at different ages. But the heart of the show remains Mr. Fimmel’s smirking, withdrawn, not quite good but certainly distinctive performance as Ragnar.
What started out strong with the first season has descended into tedious slow scenes, contrived plot twists and filler that serves no purpose to the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok and his Sons. Characters have the impact of a wet fart, and it is hard to keep your eyes open as their seems to be no higher goal. The scourge of France is cool, but it seems to be a secondary objective next to the contrived tension between Floki and Ragnar.
Ragnar is an unhappy adventurer that seems to have no interest in leading as king. Though motivated by his curiousity, the people around him are constantly plotting to kill or overthrow him. His son Björn is like a dumb puppy that doesn't know where his backside is. And there are dozens of plot points that come down to "You killed my [Insert name] and now i'm going to talk for 6 episodes about how i'm going to kill you."
This season is unfortunately just average. I give it a 6/10.
This season felt very slow. Much of the time nothing really interesting happend. The start of this season in Wessex was really great. I also liked the battle for Paris. It took however way to long for the battle to happen and didn't last long. Everything that happend in Wessex after ragnar took off was just a drag. Many of the actions were very questionable considering the first two seasons. Overal I didn't like this season.
I enjoyed the show up until the sex and porn, I gave the show numerous chances and watched it up until mid season 3. Even though Vikings are all about **** and pillaging, I don't wish to watch porn. I am sick of all the sex on TV and its getting way out of hand with all the perverts in Hollywood and in the Networks. I stopped watching the show after the episode tonight.
Just watched "At the Gates." .... First year, it was a magnificent show. A provocative and thoughtful spectacle. It's slowly morphing towards insulting.
Is anyone getting tired of being let down by thoughtless dialogue -- Count Odo: "Don't let them through the gates, and definitely not into the city." Duh. I thought you gave me the armor to roof my house and spear to clean my teeth?? Or the silly switching from English to French with subtitles by the French, or English to Norse with subtitles by the gang?
How about the way those vikings ran straight into some kind of spear launcher, then skedaddled like bunnies after it was empty and unable to fire again?!
And poor Floki. The most complex and best played character of the bunch is now a one-dimensional, obsessed Tai Chi-ing lunatic consumed by adolescent self pity.
Yet, still I watch....