With the third season of the historical series Vikings: Valhalla, Netflix is ending one of its most ambitious series projects. “Valhalla” is a spin-off of the extremely successful series Vikings with Travis Fimmel, which was produced in six seasons for the American History Channel.
Last week, the last 8 episodes of the spin-off were released. They represent the provisional end of the Vikings universe – which brings the total to 113 episodes of Viking entertainment. Finally, Vikings: Valhalla is on Number 1 in Netflix’s series charts.
Ragnar and Lagertha do not appear in Vikings: Valhalla
Vikings: Valhalla takes place more than 100 years after the events in Vikings and focuses on the end of the Viking Age. Instead of Ragnar, Lagertha and Co., historical figures such as Leif Erikson (Sam Corlett), his sister Freydis Eiriksdottir (Frida Gustavsson) and Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter) take center stage. I
In the third season, the story of the three main characters is concluded. The new characters include Erik the Red (Goran Visnjic) and General Georgios Maniakes alias Gyrgir (Florian Munteanu).
This is what the critics say about Season 3 of Vikings: Valhalla
The reviews so far for the new and final season are mixed to positive. Decider summarizes:
Vikings: Valhalla is solidly made adventure television with a focus on historical drama, great chemistry between characters, and satisfying elements of sassiness and sword-and-shield gore that fit well with the power struggles and succession disputes.
Collider praises the focus on the characters and highlights the big time jump positively. Season 3 takes place seven years after the finale of season 2. That is the “best possible decision they could have made”because the story is being moved forward in a meaningful way. However, Harald’s story suffers as a result.
At IGN the verdict is harsher:
Although the series offers enough action and political intrigue to be consistently entertaining, this is a disappointing end to the storywhich began over a decade ago with the original Vikings series.Is Vikings: Valhalla Season 4 Coming?
Valhalla creator Jeb Stuart told IGN last October:
Of course, with real historical figures there are always other aspects of their lives that could be explored, but it made narrative sensethat the journeys of Leif, Freydis and Harald end with our 3rd season.
There will be no fourth season of Vikings: ValhallaHowever, the reviews emphasize that the series ends openly enough to allow the stories to be continued in some form.
All episodes of Vikings and “Valhalla” stream in the Netflix catalog.