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Gustaf Skarsgård | ... | ||
Katheryn Winnick | ... | ||
Alexander Ludwig | ... | ||
Travis Fimmel | ... | ||
Clive Standen | ... | ||
Alex Høgh Andersen | ... | ||
Maude Hirst | ... | ||
Jordan Patrick Smith | ... | ||
Alyssa Sutherland | ... | ||
Moe Dunford | ... | ||
Linus Roache | ... | ||
Jonathan Rhys Meyers | ... | ||
George Blagden | ... | ||
Jennie Jacques | ... | ||
Georgia Hirst | ... | ||
John Kavanagh | ... | ||
Jessalyn Gilsig | ... | ||
Peter Franzén | ... | ||
Jasper Pääkkönen | ... | ||
The adventures of a Ragnar Lothbrok: the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the saga of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods: legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors. Written by History Channel
This show is an absolute disgrace to story-telling: shallow, pretentious, disorganized, tasteless. Not a single meaningful dialogue or a thought-provoking subtlety. Other than interesting costumes and great landscapes, there is absolutely nothing it can offer. Plot and acting are worse than in a bad soap opera, full of trivialities and chaotic, underdeveloped turns.
Promising events kept unfolding, but nothing came out of them. Just when you think "oh, now is a great chance to put things into perspective and raise an important question", all you get is a charming smile of the main actor and an empty phrase on the level of a hot-headed 12-year-old that doesn't even scratch the surface of...well, anything. But I kept hoping and after a few episodes and countless disappointments, I just stopped. Every chance missed, every point ruined.
If the makers came out and admitted they deliberately wanted to make it bad, I would give them 10 points for a masterly-designed mockery. They consistently invite epiphany and then slap it in the face and laugh at it. It is a mind rape, but not the intelligent one.
Someone obviously had a lucrative idea of tapping into the unexploited viking world, but unfortunately zero talent, intellect or sense of how to make it worthwhile. What a pity, what a waste..