Vikings: Valhalla is a Netflix series my wife and I enjoy quite a bit and while we didn’t jump to start the newest (and final) season immediately, we finally got done watching it the other day.

King Cnute is still the king of the North Sea Empire and virtually all of his conquered lands are completely under his control. But he has to work with the Catholic Church and settle his own succession, which is a lot trickier than you’d think.

Leif Erikson and Harald Sigurdsson made their way to the visiting the Byzantine Empire. Working directly for the Emperor of the “Romans” himself. While Leif Erikson was never was a part of this in history, Harald Sigurdsson actually was, which is very fascinating.

Freydís Eiríksdóttir is still leading the last Norse-pagan community in Scandinavia. But her old enemies spawned new ones and it seems like she’ll never get true religious freedom in the land of the vikings.

I will say what was the most fascinating part about this whole season was the Byzantine Empire, which is generally largely ignored by various forms of media. I wasn’t super surprised that we spent more time here because of how important Empress Zoe was as a character in the previous season.

With its multiple story lines and characters (not all of them are great) I did enjoy the drama and the bad guys who got what was coming to them.

I do find it a bit odd that Vikings: Valhalla stops where it did. The Viking age technically ends with the death of Harald Sigurdsson after he tries to invade England. It would have been a better ending if they had done another season and showed William the Conqueror taking the throne of England.