"Vikings" Death All 'Round (TV Episode 2016) Poster

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7/10
Live campfire stories
quincytheodore16 April 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Say what you will about the Vikings, they respect the privacy of their kinsmen. After last episode, Yidu is unsurprisingly missing, but they move on with barely mentioning the drug dealer. A few occurrences happen again and they are bizarre to say the least. Remarkably, People only pay momentarily heed and go about their own businesses.

Lagertha loses her baby, in quite the heartbreaking fashion. Ragnar mentioned about it last episode, but the severity might escape the audience, especially when Lagertha was commanding a squad not long ago. The loss is one of the more pronounced scenes and unfortunately this is the most bonding experience for the now estranged family have for a while.

Vikings also don't mind murder in their midst as well. The two new warlords find survivors nearby and the rest leave it to their discretion to decide the fate. Another lingering matter of assassination has been decided here, in broad daylight with all the participants and eye witnesses present. It's a long time coming and frankly, it needs to be done to resolve the matter.

Ironically, the body count has been piling up, and that's not even from actual battle. Now that they are gaining on Paris, hopefully the cause of death will soon be mostly stab from the front.
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8/10
Episode with No Surprises
claudio_carvalho13 October 2017
While the Northmen pull the ships through the woods, Harald and his brother Halfdan slaughter a family of farmers and Lagertha has a miscarriage. Meanwhile Father Prudentius, Aethelwulf and Alfred arrive in Rome and are received by the Pope. King Ecbert is crowned King of Wessex and Mercia while King Aelle shows how his unhappiness to his allied. Erlendur presses Torvi to kill Bjorn with his crossbow and he has a great surprise. Ragnar is addicted and keeping his last drug to help him to kill Rollo.

"Death All 'Round" is the ninth episode of Season 4 of "Vikings" with few surprises. The Vikings succeed to cross the woods pulling their ships. Lagherta loses her baby. Alfred and Aethelwulf arrive in Rome. King Ecbert becomes officially king of the two realms and despise King Aelle. Ragnar seems to be completely destroyed by his addiction. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Death All 'Round"
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7/10
Average Episode
jamesgarner-629919 August 2022
A very average episode, setting up for the next biggy. There is a little bit of character development and some killing. There are some big moments concerning Lagerther.
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6/10
The calm before the fight
tenshi_ippikiookami6 July 2016
The episode before the break offers mindless violence, a couple of surprises and Ragnar seeing things. It is probably the weakest of the season so far, and it feels just like a filler before the big battle.

We have a little bit of King Ecbert, a little bit of Alfred in "Rome", a little bit of Paris stuff, but basically this is an episode that centers on the vikings (curious, right?). After making their ships fly, the raiders have to get them back to the water, so they can bring their plan to fruition.

As said above, the episode doesn't offer much in the plot development part, even though it has a couple of surprising violent moments that make things move a little bit. But in general, it just shows that Ragnar has lost his power and control and that the other vikings are just doing a little bit whatever they want to, as there's no clear leader anymore. It is not badly done, but it is not especially interesting either. The quality of the production is still really good though, but a show as the "Vikings" should strive for something more than just some violent moments.
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