If you were bothered by the flat out, glaring, historical inaccuracies of the first original series, then you better get ready to buckle up for this one.
Vikings: Valhalla, follows the original Viking series from the History Channel/Amazon show and takes place 100 years after the season finale ended.
It was going to be a hard sell for me, but this show's first season falls short but still keeps me intruded enough to keep watching. The pacing is good enough and takes it's time, while also helping to develop all the characters.
The characters themselves are just not that interesting for the most part, but they do seem to try. Some of them start off well enough like Frida Gustavsson, then goes down this real tropey route that kind of kills it. They all seem very paint by numbers. Except Caroline Henderson who is a great presence in this movie, despite the issues surrounding it.
The fight scenes fall very flat in this movie with the choreography seeming very weak, with no impact or sense of brutality that the first show had. In fact it looks like a school play at times.
The sets at times also seem very unreal, while other times look very nice, it phases in and out and is very inconsistent, sometimes everything can look too clean except when its not.
The plot holds up well enough and is the main thing getting me through, there is a sense of wanting to know what happens next until the end of the season even if I cannot get invested in the characters completely they keep me tuned in just enough. It's not a bad start, but things can always get better. I'll keep watching. If historical inaccuracies couldn't keep me away from the original one then its not going to here either.
Once again there is a lot of historical flaws in this show, ones that are very noticeable if you love the cultural history here, but if you can get past that you'd have a good enough time.
Vikings: Valhalla, follows the original Viking series from the History Channel/Amazon show and takes place 100 years after the season finale ended.
It was going to be a hard sell for me, but this show's first season falls short but still keeps me intruded enough to keep watching. The pacing is good enough and takes it's time, while also helping to develop all the characters.
The characters themselves are just not that interesting for the most part, but they do seem to try. Some of them start off well enough like Frida Gustavsson, then goes down this real tropey route that kind of kills it. They all seem very paint by numbers. Except Caroline Henderson who is a great presence in this movie, despite the issues surrounding it.
The fight scenes fall very flat in this movie with the choreography seeming very weak, with no impact or sense of brutality that the first show had. In fact it looks like a school play at times.
The sets at times also seem very unreal, while other times look very nice, it phases in and out and is very inconsistent, sometimes everything can look too clean except when its not.
The plot holds up well enough and is the main thing getting me through, there is a sense of wanting to know what happens next until the end of the season even if I cannot get invested in the characters completely they keep me tuned in just enough. It's not a bad start, but things can always get better. I'll keep watching. If historical inaccuracies couldn't keep me away from the original one then its not going to here either.
Once again there is a lot of historical flaws in this show, ones that are very noticeable if you love the cultural history here, but if you can get past that you'd have a good enough time.