Firstly the people claiming that there are fake low rating reviews here are way off base. The full season dropped on Netflix in Europe nearly 20 hours ago, and the first negative review occurred 14 hours ago, plenty of time to have seen eight total 50 minute episodes. So let's talk about the show, not downvoting claimed to be fake by other people who don't know how netflix works across continents.
The fact is this show is a pale and shallow follow-on. The dialogue is unbearably predictable, the acting awful (although with a few exceptions the original show had mediocre acting), the plot just silly. And while we can all tolerate some anachronisms in historical fiction, this show is just chock full of cringeworthy anachronisms both in detail and in general. We are not talking about changes in historicity for dramatic effect. This show is wholesale inversion of basic history, not to mention battle tactics, often clothing, and social interaction. It is completely idiotic
As far as wokeness, sure the makers can have one out of 3,000 fighters be women (and that is the proportion the burial data, shock combat injury data suggest) , and one out of 100,000 11th century Vikings in Norway have significant African ancestry (although Berber, not sub-Saharan). But one has to ask what is the point of doing this bizarre woke and absurd demographic portrayal at a time and place where it simply is not how represented? It is clearly intentional. Moreover the reason people note the intentionality is that the wokeness is not about prior "non-woke" portrayals of Vikings being corrected: In fact there simply was no prior false demographics in film and TV somehow ignoring African Vikings. Rather this wokeness is put in place and worn on the sleeve to distract from what is just very bad writing.
The fact is this show is a pale and shallow follow-on. The dialogue is unbearably predictable, the acting awful (although with a few exceptions the original show had mediocre acting), the plot just silly. And while we can all tolerate some anachronisms in historical fiction, this show is just chock full of cringeworthy anachronisms both in detail and in general. We are not talking about changes in historicity for dramatic effect. This show is wholesale inversion of basic history, not to mention battle tactics, often clothing, and social interaction. It is completely idiotic
As far as wokeness, sure the makers can have one out of 3,000 fighters be women (and that is the proportion the burial data, shock combat injury data suggest) , and one out of 100,000 11th century Vikings in Norway have significant African ancestry (although Berber, not sub-Saharan). But one has to ask what is the point of doing this bizarre woke and absurd demographic portrayal at a time and place where it simply is not how represented? It is clearly intentional. Moreover the reason people note the intentionality is that the wokeness is not about prior "non-woke" portrayals of Vikings being corrected: In fact there simply was no prior false demographics in film and TV somehow ignoring African Vikings. Rather this wokeness is put in place and worn on the sleeve to distract from what is just very bad writing.