By this stage in the series you'll be wondering what you're actually watching - a historically-based action series trying to be a drama series - or - a historically-based drama series with some action scenes in it. I'm not sure what's happened here but it doesn't really work from a storytelling level up. Even the actors seem confused at times as to what it is they're meant to be achieving in individual scenes, apart from the action ones of course. The drama scenes have no real sense of drama about them apart from an editor at a desk trying to juice the scene footage for tension, tragedy or comedy and failing in the task. And the action scenes seem to have lost that rawness about them that made Vikings such a standout series. Even the murder of a child, which back then may have been commonplace, fails to inspire the production team to deliver anything but standard 'Vikings with fries'. Shame to see it go out like this. I was a big fan and respect what this series has achieved immensely - especially when Fimmel departed. But let's also be honest... The next few episodes are the make or break of the end of this series.
Review of Resurrection
