TV Shows... What's good, what's not and everything in between...

[GeauxHomeLittleD]

Currently watching Barbarians on Netflix. So far so good. Germanic tribes V. Romans ala "Vikings" style.

I liked "Barbarians". There is another series, or maybe the same one since I can't recall the name of it, that pits Britons against Romans during the Roman invasion of Britain, with a 1960's theme song that reminds me of "Hurdy-Gurdy Man". That was a pretty good one, too. It includes fanciful Druids. The guy that played "The Governor" in the Walking Dead plays a Roman General in it.

ETA: I just recalled that the series about the Britons during the Roman invasion of Britain is called "Britannia".

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I loved "Vikings", and now there is a sequel out that is the story of Leif Erikson. It's only one season in, however, so I'm biting my nails waiting for the next season. I wrote a 30 page paper in high school about the discovery of Vinland, and have a good grasp on it, all the sagas involving the Vinland discovery. Later in life, I found that I'm a DNA match to some unknown settler buried at Brattahlid, Erik the Red's homestead in Greenland, so it's more visceral now.

Freydis is fascinating. in a fight with the Skraelings (Indians) in the original sagas, it was recorded that she berated the Viking men for not fighting hard enough, and snatched up a dead Viking's sword, ripped open her bodice, and slapped her breasts with the sword while screaming at the Skraelings... the sight so terrified the Skraelings that they ran away.

That's one badass chick.



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We watched that, Vikings:Valhalla I think is the name. Hoping for a new season, they def left it open for one!