Blog Rating: 9.25 out of 10
Vikings is a very well filmed series that manages to reflect in a very real way the brutality and beliefs of those times. The story of Ragnar Lothbrok, a Norse farmer who succeeds in becoming the King of the Vikings. Together with his family and his men he achieves many victories in the historic lands of Great Britain and France.
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| Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha |
Blood and looting are constant in the battles to conquer new territories, but Ragnar tasks his friend Floki with building a ship capable of sailing long distances to the mysterious West.
Ragnar recruits his brother Rollo with whom he will secretly gather a crew for a journey into the unknown.
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| Gustaf Skarsgard as Floki |
The shots of the Viking ship at sea and the natural landscapes are impressive.
The Vikings are pagan believers in the gods Thor, Odin, and others, so their assault on a monastery on the outskirts of England leaves them baffled.
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| Clive Standen as Rollo |
The participation of a monk named Athelstan whom he took as a slave, will keep Ragnar in continuous religious debate between the beliefs of his people and this new religious thought.
Despite all its warfare and bloodshed, Vikings is also a story of family and sisterhood, managing to capture the love and affection between Ragnar and his wife, Lagertha, a respected warrior in her own right.
