Vikings’ Series Finale Review: The Last Three Sons Of Ragnar Lothbrok

Vikings’ Series Finale Review: The Last Three Sons Of Ragnar Lothbrok

Vikings' finally comes to an end. When Vikings is at its best, the show is more like poetry than prose. There's a certain strange beauty about it that few other TV shows capture. In the final three episodes of the series, Michael Hirst and his team offer up some of the most beautiful moments we've ever seen in Vikings. This is especially true of the New World“”Ubbe's "Golden Land" where he and Torvi and the rest of the refugees from Greenland strike out to explore. Majestic aerial shots of slow, wide rivers and endless forest play out over lush strings, the music and the visuals weaving together, vast and breathtaking. On the other hand, I can't help but think that Vikings wasted an awful lot of time getting here. I've been mostly unhappy with this show since the death of Ragnar, not because Vikings needed Ragnar to tell a quality story, but because it spent so much time not going anywhere for the past . . . . 40 episodes? Ragnar died in Season 4, Episode 15 but it was really even before his death that Vikings started to flounder. Maybe it was Paris. When Ragnar inexplicably just gave up