Vikings series 2

[gamer Mac]

Does anybody know when we get the second series here in the UK. Just watched the first series on DVD and it was great. I can see some Vikings in my future

[Captain Blood]

I just watched it on DVD too Colin. Great, wasn't it? (Mostly - there were a couple bits where I felt like I was watching a schools programme designed to educate me, but I thought the leading bloke was excellent. An Australian former male model, would you believe?  )

Anyway, apparently season 2 is about to start this week - on Sky presumably, since I believe the show is made by the History Channel, and I don't think they're on terrestrial TV in the UK?

Which means another year to wait for those of us who like boxed sets... 

[Mason]

I was looking at season one of Vikings today in Sainsbury's, as GoT season three was out of stock already (!), but could not quite decide whether to get it or not.

As you both seem to recommend it, I shall grab it on the way to work tomorrow.

Thanks, chaps!
 

 

[gamer Mac]

On the web it says season 2 starts on the 27th Feb on the history channel but it doesn't appears on my sky planner.

[Mason]

On the web it says season 2 starts on the 27th Feb on the history channel but it doesn't appears on my sky planner.

Season one was shown in Canada and the US first, so maybe that is the release date for season two there.....?
 

[Skyven]

Amazon UK grabbed the rights for it in the UK, it should be available on LoveFilm, as was the first series.

[von Lucky]

Hah - I checked Wikipedia on Monday to see when season 2 starts. SBS was prety good with showing it last year, I hope they pick it up again this year.

Scurv - I also agree it's better than Walking Dead.

[von Lucky]

Apparently SBS has picked it up and is due to air it in March.

[Marauderman]

Thanks for the heads up about SBS for March von Lucky. I enjoyed the first season.

[Atheling]

"Fly straight with perfection,
Find me a new direction....." 

Darrell.

[gringo]

seen the first series in good old Sainsburys hummed and hard will get
mine now.........
just wonder how they did with achieving the viking look....

thanks for the thimbs up men
regards
Ged
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[Captain Blood]

just wonder how they did with achieving the viking look....

Pretty good for my money, Ged... Feels quite authentic - not that anyone can really know for sure.

I think they've got the Anglo-Saxons a bit wrong though... Very strange look to them, costume and armour-wise. And all portrayed as feeble, effete, pusillanimous idiots - which I'm fairly sure wasn't the case... But apart from that, good stuff...

[OSHIROmodels]

I think they've got the Anglo-Saxons a bit wrong though... Very strange look to them, costume and armour-wise. And all portrayed as feeble, effete, pusillanimous idiots - which I'm fairly sure wasn't the case... But apart from that, good stuff...

I would imagine that's so people can recognise the difference between the two with the target audience not having as much a historical bent as we learned types 

A shame but there we go 

cheers

James

[Captain Blood]

Yes, I think they've shown the Anglo-Saxons as a bunch of useless pansies in funny outfits in order to make the vkings look more butch. But it is a shame, because they've clearly gone to extraordinary lengths to get the vikings looking as authentic as possible - and then treated the Ango-Saxons as kind of pantomime opponents, without any attempt to get their look right... 

Overall though, it's a very good series, so... 

[von Lucky]

Maybe it's portrayed as a story from the point of view of the vikings, ie how they saw the world?