Can somebody with Premium please update the show? There are only 8 episodes, not the 12 shown here.

Amazing. It has the potential to be the next game of thrones. It just needs more beautiful naked women. Season 2, hurry up!!!!

As a fan of Vikings I simple had to binge this. Set 100 years later we get introduced to the next generation of mythical figures. You don't need to have watched the original to be able to get into this story, at worst you'll miss a couple "I get that reference" smirks. What is clear from the start is that this show has been produced with a little tweak to the original. Same quality sets and world building but somewhat lighter. I'd say 20% less nudity, 20% more action and the drama needs to share the spotlight with political intrigue. Looks like they have a big budget, so we see bigger battles (like the siege of Paris in the original series) as well as the skirmishes. I think it lands somewhere between the original Vikings and The last Kingdom. If you are a fan of either I can highly recommend this season.

This is so stupid! Why did they decide to force Leiv Eiriksson into these storylines where he was not involved at all? Why do they constantly refer to him as a Greenlander when he only lived there a few years but was born and grew up on Iceland? Why are they going with Canute (English version of name) instead of Knut (his actual name)? An African woman ruling a Viking village like Kattegat in those days, WHAT IS GOING ON

So much nonsense, in addition to supernatural "facts" where different people are dreaming about the same things etc.

Ugh, if it wasn't for my completion is tendencies I would not continue watching this shit.

Ahh, Hollywood, rewriting history to suit their preferences instead of reality as they pump out one agenda driven alternative version of "history" after another.

a black jarl?
lol... nope

Wokeism has infested every show. They all suck now.

Not quite as good as the first Vikings series. I thought it was a bit boring at first, but just need to persevere past the first couple of episodes.

Watched the first episode but wont be watching the rest. Another show ruined by nonsense woke casting.

Not near as good as the original, but worth watching. They did take this shieldmaiden silliness too far.

This suffers from the same issues that took VIKINGS from a must watch series to a “Meh” - it lost its soul. When the charismatic Ragnar Lothbrok, complex Lagertha and winning Rollo exited VIKINGS, the series degenerated into uninteresting characters doing gory things. In this case, VIKINGS VALHALLA didn’t even find a soul. It doesn’t have a character worth investing in. Leif Ericsson comes off as a moody adolescent. The introduction to Freydis is promising but the role was horrible miscast and the other casting was mediocre (with the exception of Queen Emma who was a bright spot). It was basically beautiful people searching for a character. The “intrigue” was convoluted. The pseudo history was a mess. I guess you know where I’m going here, I give this series a 5 (meh) out of 10. [Historical? Fantasy? Drama]

Not really the Vikings feeling i hoped for, it’s just different.

Yes casting was good, Yes directing was OK, yes the locations were fine, and Yes OSTs were perfect
BUT
There are 3 teenagers who can beat all !!!

Slapped in the face with race and gender swaps, historical accuracy be damned! Vikings should have stayed on the History channel.

[Netflix] Regarding "Vikings" (2013-2020), it gains in spectacularity what it loses in depth of the characters. An entertaining show that can't be expected to reveal great aspects of the era or relationships between the Vikings, and doesn't even seem too interested in exploring the arrival of Christianity in pagan lands other than as a confrontational element that, once again, fuels conflict and power struggles.

I did not know that there were black Vikings back then. Thanks for the educating this bigot.