Joseph Lanzone

I believe this is the third or fourth time I have watched this series since it came out about the time Covid. My wife and I finished watching it again tonight. Initially happy and watching it on a weekend when she was visiting her family and watched about half of it. It was so good that I demanded that she watch it even though she wasn’t interested in it from the start. I started back from the beginning. After two episodes she was hooked and now she has watched it three times with me. The character development, the scenery, the battle scenes are phenomenal. I clearly enjoyed this more than Game of Thrones and I really enjoyed Game of Thrones. This series is lighter and more about heroes and goodness whereas Game of Thrones is about mostly villains and darkness with a few heroes thrown in. Uhtred and his Warriors are just phenomenal. I particularly love the lines given to Finan who does a great Irish accent, even though he is Scottish. Thought it was amusing in the last episode where he had to “fake a Scottish accent“. Frankly, his Scottish accent wasn’t that convincing. Unfortunately, the movie sequel was definitely disappointing. I hope they come out with a prequel type of series. Most likely they won’t after disaster prequel to the Game of Thrones that was basically unwatchable, and I moved on after two episodes.

Unwatchable. So slow and tedious. The original GOT had like 5 storylines going simultaneously, all of them captivating. This has one, and you keep hoping for the scenario to change to something more interesting, more exciting. It never does. I gave up after episode 7. Really after 5, quit for a couple of months tried to watch two more. Could not do it. It was as it the people who wrote the final episode of GOT wrote every minute of this snoozer. So sad, I loved the original GOT’s so much I have watched it three times.