It is very poorly directed. I loved the original Vikings series, but this one is just "flat" and "without soul". The actors they've chosen for this aren't believable in their roles.
I watched the first ten minutes of episode one, and was very disappointed. It looks cheap. I don't know exactly what it is, but I can take a look at a television series and tell in half a minute or less whether it is a quality production or not. Vikings was a quality production. This is not. I think it's the lenses on the cameras they use. This has a soap opera look. And the sound wasn't right. Not enough noise from the extras gathered in the long house.
I agree 100%. I might watch one more just to see what they do to the pathetic new King. His acting made me wish I was one of the Vikings 😆
That's a hallmark of Michael Hirst's writing: English (Saxons) are stupid and need to be shown as weak. The only two Saxon characters that they ever made look convincing on the original series was Alfred the Great (as the "equal" or "foil" to Ragnar) and then Bishop Heahmund as a sociopathic, bound-for-hell Pagan killer.
These fucks have absolutely destroyed every form of entertainment we enjoyed.
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