My wife and were very into that show years ago. It's maybe not super historically accurate, but it's got lots of good looking people with swords and it was fun. When you get further into it, it would be interesting to hear your opinion (I don't want to spoil anything).
I watched Vikings (will hold comments), but still have on my watch-list to eventually watch Vikings Valhala.
No Black Vikings, at least as far as I remember. And it seems like I would remember. Although, now I'm going to have soft spoil things and admit that we didn't make it through the last few seasons, so maybe they did the Black Viking thing at some point. There was a weird part with a Chinese character, but they didn't depict her as being a Viking, just a slave who was captured and ended up in medieval Scandinavia through a series of events that wasn't much less plausible than anything else in the show.
Come to think of it, even in the early seasons of the original Vikings, which were great fun, there was a little problem with the warrior princess trope with one character. That is, a female character who was out there fighting hand-to-hand with big, tough male Vikings and winning. It wasn't too, too bad though because they implied she was a shieldmaiden with supernatural strength so you could sort of suspend disbelief.
So I’ll pile on now as well. I enjoyed the early seasons of the Vikings. Simple and strait-forward and entertaining. Then when they ventured into England, I felt there were too many storylines, characters and got to much into the politics side of things. That’s when I checked out. If Vahalla show is DEI heavy, I’ll skip it then. I believe it’s been mentioned on here but The Last Kingdom show was definitely a good watch. I really enjoyed that one.
I didn't see the show The Last Kingdom, but I read the first book in the series and it was great. I probably would have continued with it if I were single and childless, but since I've got a gaggle of kids now I don't have a lot of time for reading.
I like the show, but I pretty much think it’s the complete antithesis of woke in almost every regard. I hear what your saying how annoying that young lady lawyer is acting but that is almost real-world how young aggressive girls act in the real world so it’s not pushing woke agenda brainwashing there, just showing reality. The trans girl that roomates with Billy Bobs daughter…if you recall the earlier episodes, they exposed all of the negative aspects and character flaws of being trans/woke of that and not promoting or pushing it (was a deterrent/ anti-woke). Billy Bobs daughter defending the trans girl from being bullied by cheerleaders just showed good moral character on her part to stand up /call out peers for doing wrong. Don’t really see that as pushing woke agenda, just reflecting good Christian values and strength on Billy Bob daughters character.
