Vikings (TV series)
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Created by | Michael Hirst |
Written by | Michael Hirst |
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Opening theme | "If I Had a Heart" by Fever Ray |
Composer | Trevor Morris |
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Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 6 |
No. of episodes | 89 (list of episodes) |
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Production locations | Ashford Studios County Wicklow |
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Running time | 45–50 minutes |
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Release | March 3, 2013 December 30, 2020 | –
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Vikings: Valhalla |
Vikings is a
Vikings is inspired by the
Premise
The series is inspired by the tales of the
Cast and characters
- Travis Fimmel as Ragnar Lothbrok (seasons 1–4)
- Lagertha
- Rollo(seasons 1–4; special appearance season 5)
- Siggy(seasons 1–3)
- Floki
- Earl Haraldson(season 1)
- Athelstan(seasons 1–3; recurring season 4)
- Horik of Denmark(seasons 1–2)
- Aslaug (seasons 1–4)[a]
- Ecbert of Wessex(seasons 2–4)
- Bjorn Ironside(seasons 2–6)
- Kalf(seasons 3–4)
- Harbard(seasons 3–4)
- Charles of West Francia(seasons 3–4)
- The Seer(seasons 4–6; recurring seasons 1–3)
- Harald Finehair(seasons 4–6)
- Halfdan the Black (seasons 4–6)[b]
- Ivar the Boneless(seasons 4–6)
- Hvitserk(seasons 4–6)
- David Lindström as Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye(season 4)
- Ubbe(seasons 4–6)
- Aethelwulf(seasons 4–5; recurring seasons 2–4)
- Bishop Heahmund (seasons 4–5)[c]
- Oleg the Prophet(season 6)
- Erik(season 6)
- Torvi(season 6; recurring seasons 2–6)
- Gunnhild(season 6; recurring seasons 5–6)
- Othere(season 6)
Production
Season 1
An Irish-Canadian co-production, Vikings was developed and produced by Octagon Films and Take 5 Productions.
The series began filming in July 2012 at Ashford Studios in Ireland, which at the time was a newly built facility.[4] This location was chosen for its scenery and tax advantages.[3] On August 16, 2012, longship scenes were filmed at Luggala, as well as on the Poulaphouca Reservoir in the Wicklow Mountains.[5] Seventy percent of the first season was filmed outdoors.[3] Some additional background shots were done in western Norway.[6]
Johan Renck,[7] Ciarán Donnelly and Ken Girotti each directed three episodes. The production team included cinematographer John Bartley, costume designer Joan Bergin, production designer Tom Conroy, composer Trevor Morris and Irish choir Crux Vocal Ensemble, directed by Paul McGough.
Season 2
On April 5, 2013, History renewed Vikings for a ten-episode second season.[8] Jeff Woolnough[9] and Kari Skogland joined Ken Girotti and Ciaran Donnelly as directors of the second season.[10]
Two new series regulars were announced on June 11, 2013:
Season 3
Morgan O'Sullivan, Sheila Hockin, Sherry Marsh, Alan Gasmer, James Flynn, John Weber and Michael Hirst are credited as executive producers.[2]
This season was produced by Steve Wakefield and Keith Thompson; Bill Goddard and Séamus McInerney acted as co-producers. The production team for this season included casting directors Frank and Nuala Moiselle; costume designer Joan Bergin; visual effects supervisors Julian Parry and Dominic Remane; stunt action designers Franklin Henson and Richard Ryan; composer Trevor Morris; production designer Mark Geraghty; editors Aaron Marshall for the first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth episodes and Tad Seaborn for the second, fourth, sixth, eighth and tenth episodes; and cinematographer PJ Dillon.
Norwegian music group Wardruna provided much of the background music to the series. Wardruna's founder Einar Selvik also appeared as an actor in the show during the third season, portraying a shaman.[15]
Season 4
Michael Hirst announced plans for the fourth season before the third season had begun airing.[16] The fourth season began production in Ireland around the Dublin and Wicklow areas in April 2015.[17] Additional location photography featuring Ludwig took place in Canada.
Finnish actors
Former Toronto Blue Jays player Josh Donaldson is a fan of the series and in January 2016, it was announced that he would have a guest appearance in the fourth season of the show as "Hoskuld".[19]
Season 5
At the same time that the series was renewed for a fifth season, it was announced that Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers would be joining the cast,[20] as Heahmund, a "warrior bishop". Vikings’ creator Michael Hirst, explained: "I was looking at the history books, and I came across these warrior bishops. The antecedents of the Knights Templar: these are people who were absolutely religious, yet they put on armor and they fought. Don't let their priestly status fool you, either. 'They were crazy! They believed totally in Christianity and the message, and yet, on the battlefield, they were totally berserk.'"[21]
Season 6
Russian actor
Broadcast
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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First aired | Last aired | Network | |||
History | |||||
2 | 10 | 27 February 2014 | 1 May 2014 | ||
3 | 10 | 19 February 2015 | 23 April 2015 | ||
4 | 20 | 10 | 18 February 2016 | 21 April 2016 | |
10 | 30 November 2016 | 1 February 2017 | |||
5 | 20 | 10 | 29 November 2017 | 24 January 2018 | |
10 | 28 November 2018 | 30 January 2019 | |||
6 | 20 | 10 | 4 December 2019 | 5 February 2020 | |
10 | 30 December 2020 | Amazon Prime Video |
Vikings premiered on March 3, 2013, in Canada[33] and the United States.[4] Vikings was renewed for a fourth season in March 2015 with an extended order of 20 episodes, which premiered on February 18, 2016.[34][35][36] On March 17, 2016, History renewed Vikings for a fifth season of 20 episodes, which premiered on November 29, 2017.[20][37] On September 12, 2017, ahead of its fifth-season premiere, the series was renewed for a sixth season of 20 episodes.[38] On January 4, 2019, it was announced that the sixth season would be the series' last.[39] The sixth season premiered on December 4, 2019.[40] The second part of the sixth and final season was released in its entirety on December 30, 2020, on Amazon Prime Video in Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Austria;[41] and aired in Canada on History from January 1, 2021.[42]
In the UK, Vikings premiered on May 24, 2013, where it was exclusively available on the streaming video-on-demand service LoveFilm.[43] The second season premiered on March 24, 2015.[44] The third season began airing on February 20, 2015, on Amazon Prime Video.[45]
In Australia, the series premiered on August 8, 2013, on
Editing
The nudity and sex scenes are regularly edited out for American audiences. For example, the sex scene between Lagertha and Astrid in the fourth-season episode "
Reception
Reviews
The first episode received favorable reviews, with an average rating of 71% according to Metacritic.[52] Alan Sepinwall of HitFix praised the casting, notably of Fimmel as Ragnar, and observed that Vikings "isn't complicated. It ... relies on the inherent appeal of the era and these characters to drive the story".[53] Nancy DeWolf Smith of The Wall Street Journal noted the "natural and authentic" setting and costumes, and appreciated that Vikings was (unlike, for example, Spartacus) not a celebration of sex and violence, but "a study of character, stamina, power and ... of social, emotional and even intellectual awakening".[54] Hank Stuever, writing for The Washington Post, said that the "compelling and robust new drama series ... delivers all the expected gore and blood spatter", but that it successfully adapted the skills of cable television drama, with the care taken in acting, writing and sense of scope reminiscent of Rome, Sons of Anarchy and Game of Thrones. He also suggested that the way the series emphasized "a core pride and nobility in this tribe of thugs" reflected "just another iteration of Tony Soprano".[55] Neil Genzlinger, in The New York Times, praised the "arresting" cinematography and the actors' performances, notably Fimmel's, and favorably contrasted Vikings to Game of Thrones and Spartacus for the absence of gratuitous nudity.[56]
In TIME, James Poniewozik noted that the relatively simple generational conflict underlying Vikings "doesn't nearly have the narrative ambition of a Game of Thrones or the political subtleties of a Rome", nor these series' skill with dialogue, but that it held up pretty well compared to the "tabloid history" of The Tudors and The Borgias. He concluded that "Vikings' larger story arc is really more about historical forces" than about its not very complex characters.[57] Clark Collis of Entertainment Weekly appreciated the performances, but considered Vikings to be "kind of a mess", lacking the intrigue of The Tudors and Game of Thrones.[58] Brian Lowry criticized the series in Variety as an "unrelenting cheese-fest" and as a "more simpleminded version of Game of Thrones", but considered that it had "a level of atmosphere and momentum that makes it work as a mild diversion".[59] In the San Francisco Chronicle, David Wiegand was disappointed by the series' "glacial pace" and lack of action as well as the "flabby direction and a gassy script", while appreciating the performances and characters.[60]
The second season received a Metacritic rating of 77%, and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 92% based on twelve professional critic reviews.
Ratings
According to
In Canada, the premiere had 1.1 million viewers. The first season averaged 942,000 viewers.[63]
Languages
Most of the scenes are shot in modern English, but several other languages are featured through the series, in order to make the audience perceive that different groups of characters speak different native languages and often have troubles communicating. These include primarily Old Norse, Old English and Latin, which appeared since the first season.[64]
The cast was helped by dialect coach Poll Moussoulides.[65] Old Norse dialogues were translated by Erika Sigurdson (University of Iceland) and Old English ones by Kate Wiles (Leeds University).[66][67] Other languages featured includes Old French (in seasons 3 and 4), Arabic (in seasons 4 and 5), Bizanthine Greek and Sami (in season 5), and Old East Slavic and Miꞌkmaq (in season 6).
Historical inaccuracies
Lars Walker, in the magazine
Monty Dobson, a historian at
Little is known about Viking religious practice and its depiction is largely fictitious.[72] When Katheryn Winnick was asked why she licked the seer's hand she answered: "It wasn't originally in the script and we just wanted to come up with something unique and different".[73] The showrunner Michael Hirst said, "I especially had to take liberties with Vikings because no one knows for sure what happened in the Dark Ages ... we want people to watch it. A historical account of the Vikings would reach hundreds, occasionally thousands, of people. Here we've got to reach millions".[74]
In the fourth episode of the second season, the bishop of Wessex is shown inflicting crucifixion as punishment for apostasy, while it had been outlawed more than four centuries earlier by Emperor Constantine the Great,[75] and it would have been blasphemous for the Christian population.[76]
Home media
Season | Volume(s) | DVD release date | Blu-ray release date | |||
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Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | Region A | Region B | ||
1
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Season | October 15, 2013[77][78] | February 3, 2014[79] | March 26, 2014[80] | October 15, 2013[81][82] | February 3, 2014[83] |
2
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Season | October 14, 2014[84] | November 3, 2014[85] | November 5, 2014[86] | October 14, 2014[87] | November 3, 2014[88] |
3
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Season | October 13, 2015[89] | November 2, 2015[90] | October 21, 2015[91] | October 13, 2015[92] | October 21, 2015[93] |
4
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Part 1 | August 23, 2016[94] | October 24, 2016[95] | October 12, 2016[96] | August 23, 2016[97] | October 12, 2016[98] |
Part 2 | May 2, 2017[99] | August 7, 2017[100] | March 29, 2017[101] | May 2, 2017[102] | March 29, 2016[103] | |
Season | — | August 7, 2017[104] | — | — | August 7, 2017[105] | |
5
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Part 1 | April 3, 2018[106] | October 1, 2018[107] | June 20, 2018[108] | April 3, 2018[109] | June 20, 2018[110] |
Part 2 | April 23, 2019[111] | October 7, 2019[112] | May 22, 2019[113] | April 23, 2019[114] | May 22, 2019[115] | |
Season | — | October 7, 2019[116] | — | — | October 7, 2019[117] | |
6
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Part 1 | October 6, 2020[118] | October 19, 2020[119] | October 14, 2020[120] | October 6, 2020[121] | October 14, 2020[122] |
Part 2 | TBA | TBA | TBA | June 15, 2021[123] | TBA | |
Season | — | TBA | — | TBA | — |
Related media
Comic book
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal (2015)
A
Sequel series
On January 4, 2019, alongside the announcement that the series would end after its sixth season, it was announced that Hirst and MGM Television were developing a spin-off series with writer Jeb Stuart.[39] On November 19, 2019, it was announced that this, titled Vikings: Valhalla, would take place a century after the end of the original series and would be released on Netflix.[130] The 24-episode series was made by MGM Television, and filmed primarily in Ireland, working from the same Ashford Studios in County Wicklow. The series focuses "on the adventures of Leif Erikson, Freydis, Harald Hardrada and the Norman king William the Conqueror".[131]
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External links
- Official website
- Vikings at IMDb
- Vikings on Netflix