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Vikings: Valhalla
Season 1 Premiere: Feb 25, 2022
70
3.2
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
70
88% Positive
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13% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
70
88% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
13% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
From start to finish, Vikings: Valhalla Season 2 is a non-stop, breathtaking, utterly relentless foray, following beloved characters into the unknown as they seek their destinies. It is both utterly satisfying and so rich and packed with even more to come down the line that the wait for Season 3 now feels longer than ever.
Rooted in history but not beholden to it, the show might provoke one or two viewers to crack a book seeing if this is how it actually unfolded, which isn't a bad thing. Yet nor is that really necessary, with "Vikings: Valhalla" working plenty well simply as escapist drama, covering a great deal of story in a season that still leaves room for battles and brawls to come.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 155 User Ratings
3.2
26% Positive
40 Ratings
40 Ratings
10% Mixed
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
64% Negative
99 Ratings
99 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 155 User Ratings
3.2
26% Positive
40 Ratings
40 Ratings
10% Mixed
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
64% Negative
99 Ratings
99 Ratings
I was absolutely shocked when I saw how low the user score was for this show. Then, I went through the comments and realized it's a bunch of racist, snowflake conservatives giving low reviews because their mind explodes whenever they see a black person in a *fictional* TV show. Let's be real guys, this isn't about historical accuracy, it's about your small-mindedness and inability to change with the times. I thought this show was highly entertaining with compelling characters, solid acting, and great fight scenes. If you're giving this show a "0" or "1" rating because you don't like seeing a black person in a fictional storyline, get help. Sincerely, a white person who was raised conservative then switched to the better side.
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If anything, “Valhalla’s” eight-episode first season improves on the original show — as it should, since it takes place in more interesting times.
It is, rather, fiercely emotional, often overwrought and populated by characters well-acted and fully engaging.
I watched the second half of the eight-episode season being relieved that even if Valhalla never quite reaches the heights of the Vikings mothership, the show it settles into becoming is pretty strong and satisfying on its own.
Valhalla is promising, offering an exciting new batch of characters, it needs to fix its pacing issue and lean into more of its strengths rather than trying to retread the path of history.
After a well-paced opening episode the plot starts to drag, mainly when it focuses on a female character, Freydís Eiríksdóttir (Frida Gustavsson), back in Scandinavia while the main action takes place in England. It is much better when giving us battle scenes, or the machinations involving Æthelred's callow son, Edmund, and shrewd widow, Emma of Normandy.
I was going to give this show an 8, but after all the hate it’s getting from legit racists, I’ll give it a ten. There’s one black chick in here, and all these dudes are so unbelievably butthurt about it that they give this show, that has so many great qualities, a 0. If you’re rating this show poorly based off of what you believe a loose history based show should consist of, go look up how true-to-events the original Vikings show was. This is a story to be enjoyed, not a history textbook to be correcting.
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If ever there was a show that showcased over-acting, this is it. There are times when it just looks like a bunch of actors, standing around looking like they are acting. It lacks the subtle nuances that truly great shows have, there is no need to read between the lines. This is a great show for people that only get jokes that rhyme.
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Barely any story happening in this show, missing a strong character like Ragnar.
Characters arent that deep or developping.
Ragnar carried the first show when it started, when he was gone, the show went downhill.
This show just starts low and never rises.
I'd say to the makers: let it go and move on
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I enjoyed the Vikings series. But this new one is funny. While I can overlook the usual stupidity in History's understanding of Vikings (way, way off btw just look into the only surviving oral tradition of the pre-religious people of the north the: Bock Saga) due to it being written by those who won the wars against the pagans (Christians). This one using a black actress to play a viking queen is just facepalmingly bad. Why do that? Are u just trying to piss people off? I don't see the point. Embarrassing and yea intolerable. So I skipped season 1 ENTIRELY. And I think most people were appalled but that doesn’t determine whether a show gets approval… or renewal… approval comes from the top and their agenda… so… Fast forward to season 2... ok a couple of guys going on an adventure. Great thats what I want to see in a Vikings fiction show (fiction because the shows obviously doesn't actually care about fact or actual pagan tradition but gets a few things more or less right, and when I see these ridiculous blood sacrifices I just imagine what they really were instead: fertility practices and have nothing to do with blood or violence) and I do enjoy the sets and setting and costume design. It's good, but it doesn't need the proverbial Game of Thrones gruesome torture scenes. It's just not a novelty anymore and trying to imitate that is really pointless. GOT broke new ground by showing how psychopathic our leaders are, OK, but we don't need Vikings to show that... it's been done, and a lot of it just seems like filler and unoriginal. Introduce a character, then torture her to death... and kill her off... - it's pointless. If you wanna show the queen is a psychopath, just try something else more original. I just don't care nor am I shocked or impressed.
Also the total non-comprehension of pagan spirituality and practices is a bit annoying. Please get a clue! Can you not even read Frazer? Even that clueless guy would be better than the crap in this show. Vikings didn’t do blood sacrifices, drink blood or stab furry animals. That all came with the religion. It’s IN the Bible…. but then you sell it as pagan? What the actual #$#? They didn't just walk around awkwardly singing randomly next to totem poles or randomly shouting or howling at the moon, use the lords prayer or believe their gods lived in the sky. The stubborn refusal to accept actual real pagan source material and rely on this Christian **** take on paganism is unscholarly lazy and pathetic. Put some actual time into understanding pagans before you go and make a TV show about something you have literally zero clue about. We’re still here, yes there is a lot of crap out there but I already told you where to look. The Bock saga is available, it may be tedious, complex and hard for your small brain but you as a script writer have a responsibility to give it decent consideration even if you’re too feeble to handle it. All the crap your passing off as pagan in this show is really wwway way off the mark, and almost makes one speculate if the show is made to once again suppress paganism or it's revival as other shows are doing such as "Britannia" the absolute stinking mess that one is. BUT I'm going to give this show some more time, because I did learn a few things from the first series and it was entertaining. That was of course before I found the actual oral tradition and mythology. So now, I just don't understand the stubborn reason for refusing to accept ACTUAL oral tradition of these pre-religious people and not only rely on these documents written by their conquerors the Christian Scribes? Prose and Poetry eddas? By doing so you make the Vikings seem incomprehensible and eccentric to the point of nausea. Even the actors seem to have trouble playing these characters. For example the woman in the season two who is supposed to be a fighter and also pregnant? Just seems like a new age airhead. It’s not her fault as an actor, its just the absurd character you came up with based on this ridiculous Christian scribe and archeological dig data you’re using to tell about Viking history. You can’t do that. Digging up bones isn’t going to tell a story in reverse, you have to have some 1st hand account of the events that took place, and you’re not accepting them either because you’re clueless about it, arrogant, or just paid to create disinformation TV series. We have the original source data. We know what Vikings did, why they did it and how. This TV show is wrong and relies or disinformation put out by Christian scribes. Pagans didn’t “believe” or have “faith” in anything we understand things as they are beyond scientific materialism as well. We use logic. We were not and are not naive deluded idiots.
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Production Company:
- MGM Television
- MGM/UA Television
- Metropolitan Films International
- Toluca Pictures
Initial Release Date: Feb 25, 2022
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Irish Film and Television Awards
• 2 Wins & 10 Nominations
Directors Guild of Canada
• 3 Nominations
Canadian Screen Music Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
