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Vikings series creator and writer Michael Hirst is always a wealth of knowledge. Aside from writing every single episode of the History Channel series, he speaks about his characters with reverence and understanding.  He likes them, he values them, and he knows fans do too. In a recent interview with Variety, Hirst spoke a bit […]

Vikings series creator and writer Michael Hirst is always a wealth of knowledge. Aside from writing every single episode of the History Channel series, he speaks about his characters with reverence and understanding.  He likes them, he values them, and he knows fans do too. In a recent interview with Variety, Hirst spoke a bit […]

History Channel’s epic adventure series Vikings comes back tomorrow night for its fifth season. Originally, this was going to be the very last for the show, but the network opted to bring it back for another. Sources can’t seem to agree if this happened because of the outpouring of love and support for the show witnessed […]

History Channel’s epic adventure series Vikings comes back tomorrow night for its fifth season. Originally, this was going to be the very last for the show, but the network opted to bring it back for another. Sources can’t seem to agree if this happened because of the outpouring of love and support for the show witnessed […]

The holidays are upon us, and that means everyone is making gift lists. Personally I dislike lists; I find them annoying to write and here’s why: 1.) Do you list things by numbers or asterisks? 2.) Do you list things by how much you like them or how much you think other people will like […]

History Channel’s Vikings has given audiences some pretty incredible characters and performances. From Travis Fimmel’s rockstar swagger heavy King Ragnar Lothbrok to Katheryn Winnick’s force of nature mother-shield maiden-Queen Lagertha and Gustaf Skarsgard’s maniacal visionary Floki, it seemed there could not be yet another person of larger-than-life status. That is, until show creator and writer Michael […]

The History Channel knows what they’ve got with their drama series Vikings, thankfully. After previously announcing that Season 5 would be the final for the show, they took it back and picked up Michael Hirst’s raiding epic for a 6th season. The first half of Vikings Season 5 is set to premiere on November 29th, and thanks to […]

Vikings is a series that’s never been shy about killing off its characters, with a nearly Game of Thrones-level of nonchalance. This week was no exception, and while the fate of King Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Frimmel) has long been expected by fans of the History Channel’s first scripted series, there had always been the hope that the series writer Michael Hirst would give us more time.

Last week on Vikings, Ragnar returned to Kattegat after 10 years away.  His sons have become men, his current wife has made a mess of almost everything in Kattegat, and Lagertha has continued to rule her Earldom while planning revenge. “The Vision” continues much of what was already set in motion, a very depressed and downtrodden […]

For fans of History Channel’s scripted drama Vikings, it has been six full months of waiting since we went into the midseason hiatus with the episode, The Last Ship. Over the last several episodes things had been going from bad to worse for our Nordic heroes, culminating with a disastrous river battle against Rollo (Clive Standen) […]