After a year of watching every behind-the-scenes video, the day is finally here. [wipes tears] The Last Kingdom season four is finally available.
If you don’t know it, it’s a great historical drama developed by the BBC and Netflix. It plays out kind of like a mix between Vikings and Game of Thrones, although it’s not nearly as well-known as either.
The sometimes-clumsy production value in the first season is probably to blame, but every season after that is just flawless.
The Last Kingdom
The fourth season was added to Netflix today.
This historical fantasy show is based on the best-selling novel The Saxon Stories, a story set during the Viking / Dane invasion of Britain.
Uhtred was a small boy when he was kidnapped and then raised by the Danes. When he unexpectedly gets caught up in the conflict, his half-Saxon half-Dane mix makes at the same time valuable and untrustworthy for both sides.
There has never been a better alternative to Game of Thrones. The great writing and great performances from a cast of newcomers inevitably induce the same sense of addiction.
Alternatives you might like
Marco Polo also on Netflix is a historical fiction based on the traveler’s upbringing in the Mongol Empire.
Outlander on Netflix as well mixes fantasy with 18th-century Scottish history. It’s about a WWII nurse who travels back in time to find herself at the center of the Jacobite rebellion.
Talk soon,
Bilal
Marco Polo was phenomenal!