Rent Vikings: Series 6: Part 2 (2020)

A Genuinely Moving Finale to a Brilliant Epic Vikings Drama Series - Vikings: Series 6: Part 2 review by PV

This is the final series of Vikings - the second part of series 6. And what a finale!

OK so best not dig to deep into how certain characters survived. Or indeed get too worked up about the romanticisation of the lives 'first nations' north American tribes, though Viland was a settlement by Vikings in Newfoundland so that is accurate. This is a Canadian/Irish co-production, after all. The woods and coastline and seas. rivers and waterways are all Ireland - a very rural place, remember.

A genuinely moving finale esp the final 2 episodes.

I am glad Vikings is stopping here. The first series were superb though some pc metoo stuff did seep into later stories though thankfully not any absurd colourblind casting. Some middle episodes of later series dragged a bit.

Nevertheless, a superb series - I could watch it all again from series 1. In fact the biggest problem I had was remembering who was who as it is so long since I watched the first part of series 6 and 5 too - months, in fact years, thanks to the pandemic. Hey ho...I shall have to check who is who when I rewatch it all.

Not sure why they remixed the feem toon for this final series - it was better how it was.

This has been a superb drama, way better than most TV drama now

The big battle would seem to reference the Battle of Edington in 873 AD though that was led by other Vikings Guthrum; another great battle was 867. So history may be mixed an confused, which is fine as this is not a documentary but a drama. And I loved the cheeky Hvitserk's fate (though historical records claim he was executed by the Russ by burning alive).. Ivar the Boneless was in fact a king of what is now Dublin, slave market central in the 9th century.

All semi-mythical iron age characters and peoples anyway! Best watched for the drama alone.

5 stars.