Started well but became very boaring and there were far too many power struggles, battles that never seemed endless and weird endings. No balance and no happiness. I struggled to be interested in the last half of the series. The character of slave woman Margareth coukd have been left out of the program as she was so completely unbelievable and disingenious as to make one groan. Once Ragnar died my interedt died too. Up until then there was great merit in the show.