Vikings Season 3 [Blu-ray]

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This series is a lot closer to a 5-star series than a 4. Vikings opens a window onto a group of people who culturally view and deal with life in a very different manner from anything I am used to. The primary and most obvious difference is that death (either their own or someone else’s) means very little to them.

The window onto Viking culture leaves me kind of mentally sorting through dialogue and action that takes place, marking off the things that I think are similar or different from my own experience of life. I like the way heroes and villains are handled in this series. Even the worst Viking villains are not going to yell for their Mommy when it comes time for their (typically brutal) punishment. And the best heroes (Ragnar) can turn bloodily murderous at the drop of a hat.

There is an unstated evolution taking place in Ragnar where he seems to sense that savagery is not an optimal way of life. He seems to be slowly awakening to the novel idea that human life might have value, and this awakening potentially connects him to you and me and our own lives. Ragnar’s most attractive quality is not his faceted, piercing blue eyes, but his intellectual curiosity, which by necessity, always takes second place to his need to maintain dominance by destroying anything blocking his path.

Ragnar is surrounded by interesting Vikings: Floki the Loki-like, artistically crazy, boat-builder/inventor/Norse-god-fanatic. Lagaertha, the ultimate combination of Nordic beauty and female warrior. Rollo, the ultimate male warrior, Ragnar’s brother, who can’t seem to get out of Ragnar’s shadow and find a place for himself that suits his needs and ambitions. And many more.

I do want to raise one caveat, which is the fact that somehow I started watching Vikings at season 2. I didn’t realize this until halfway through season 4A, at which point I then went back and watched Season 1. Season 1 took a little time to really get its balance, which didn’t bother me at all because I already knew where it was going. But looking at some nasty critiques of the series later on, I realized that many of these critiques were coming from people who had watched a couple of episodes from season 1 and weren’t patient enough to keep going with it. So, my advice is if season 1 doesn’t grab you right away, stick with it, and it will be worth it.

– Steve

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Title : Vikings Season 3 [Blu-ray]
EAN : 0883904330707
Actor : Standen, Clive, Blagden, George, Fimmel, Travis
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 950 minutes
Release Date : 2015-10-06
Theatrical Release Date : 2015-10-06
Region : 1
Format : Widescreen, Subtitled, Dubbed, Blu-ray / DVD
Languages : english Original Language, spani
Discs : 3