1000 years ago Judeochristian invaders destroyed pagan culture not (only) by cutting throats but by over-coding, by synchretism, by over-writing pagan culture until it was dead in all but image. Netflix are doing the same again. This show projects a woke assault on a culture Netflixies probably despise.
This is not about Vikings, it's a woke subversion against those of us who are into Vikings.
This is not history it's a fabricated narrative of a future world Netflix-types want to create.
This does not honour Viking culture, it is a parody of it.
The writing is lame. In Ep1 Cnut's speech to his army could have been a great leader speech. I cannot believe the writers are so lame they made it so bad. I suspect it must be intentional to make Vikings (or men) look lame but it just makes the show dumb. The writing is awful.
Some of the actors make a good go of it though. Frejdis and Anna are better cut characters than most.
The story hangs together to be entertaining enough but the more Netflixification we are exposed to the more we see them achieve seductive production quality by reaching for the same rent-a-cliche tropes, narrative ploys, sets, generic-foreign-accent, generic period costume from one show to the next. Lame US factory TV.
This is not about Vikings, it's a woke subversion against those of us who are into Vikings.
This is not history it's a fabricated narrative of a future world Netflix-types want to create.
This does not honour Viking culture, it is a parody of it.
The writing is lame. In Ep1 Cnut's speech to his army could have been a great leader speech. I cannot believe the writers are so lame they made it so bad. I suspect it must be intentional to make Vikings (or men) look lame but it just makes the show dumb. The writing is awful.
Some of the actors make a good go of it though. Frejdis and Anna are better cut characters than most.
The story hangs together to be entertaining enough but the more Netflixification we are exposed to the more we see them achieve seductive production quality by reaching for the same rent-a-cliche tropes, narrative ploys, sets, generic-foreign-accent, generic period costume from one show to the next. Lame US factory TV.