The final episodes of the popular series
Vikings were released on Amazon Prime in December 2020. The curtain call was a bittersweet moment for those who have followed all six seasons of the historical epic, but it was also met with some relief as fans knew that a new era of pillaging adventures were still on the horizon in
Vikings: Valhalla - a spin-off exclusively coming soon to Netflix.
The streaming platform has already had its fair share of Medieval-inspired entertainment, including its popular adaptation of
Ragnarok, and even a sitcom set during said era called
Vikings: Valhalla has only continued to grow as the show would become one of many affected by the outbreak of Covid-19. And the Middle Ages thought the bubonic plague was problematic.
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“All Change” resurrects the title of
Vikings’ long-ago, Season 1 finale. If you cast your mind back, that was when Ragnar Lothbrok first met, bedded, and impregnated Aslaug with Ubbe, thus cheating on Lagertha and dismaying essentially everyone, onscreen and off. Out of the four characters mentioned there, three are dead and Ubbe is the oldest remaining son of Ragnar after last episode’s death of his half-brother, Bjorn Ironside. Ubbe’s in Iceland, refusing to take up his illustrious father’s legacy as ruler of Kattegat, while still planning to follow Ragnar’s footsteps in discovering a fabled Golden Land to the west. Of the other sons of Ragnar, Hvitserk and Ivar continue to serve the would-be Rus conqueror Oleg, while Kattegat, reveling in the vikings’ underdog victory over the Rus, contemplates a new ruler.