Yeah OK, over the first four Seasons the show wasn't exactly history personified. Playing fast and loose with real time lines and actual/not so actual people but "Vikings is starting to smell like someone died.
That was Ragnar and having built a show round his character its bombing now he's dead.
I've given it a few weeks but now I'm sure I don't give a monkeys about the rest of them.
Floki is a gibbering idiot, Bjorn has the charisma of a plank, two of his brothers are non entities and the guy who plays Ivar is awful.
Lagertha makes a terrible baddie and all the Saxons are two dimensional, apart from Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who I can't stand anyway!
So its a great show! :o)
This week, not having a Shark, they Jumped the Sewer instead. By having Ivar's mob creeping through the sewers of York like a bunch of fighters from the Armia Krajowa in 1944!
Not 100% on the corporate sanitation arrangements in York at the time of the Viking conquest but I'm pretty sure they didn't have Cathedrals of Victorian brickwork running under the road.
Not to mention how the obliging Saxon army stood rooted in horror as the Vikings popped out of their holes two at a time, rather than rushing them before they could get more than a couple of arrows loose!
Time to fold it up guys. Good fun has turn to hokum and pretty rubbish hokum too!
