Vikings: Season 3

METASCORE

Universal acclaim based on 7 Critic Reviews

See All

USER SCORE

Generally favorable reviews based on 326 Ratings

See All

7.1

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

7.1	Your Score
7.1	User Score Generally favorable reviews based on 326 Ratings

Would you like to write a review?

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Your review may be edited for content. 0/5000

Check box if your review contains spoilers

Play Sound

Please enter your birth date to watch this video:

You are not allowed to view this material at this time.

Vikings

Now Playing: Vikings

Season Details & Credits

History | The History Channel | Season Premiere Date: February 19, 2015

Starring: Jessalyn Gilsig, Kevin Durand, Linus Roache

Summary: Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) leads his people to Wessex to learn if the promises of King Ecbert (Linus Roache) are true.

Creator: Michael Hirst

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure

Watch Now

Stream On

Buy on

Stream On

Expand

Season 3 Episodes

tbd
S3:E10. The Dead
Air Date: April 23, 2015
tbd
S3:E9. Breaking Point
Air Date: April 16, 2015
tbd
S3:E8. To the Gates!
Air Date: April 9, 2015

See all Seasons and Episodes

Metascore

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Critic Reviews

Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Feb 18, 2015

All involved are dedicated to the cause of making Vikings one of television’s most striking series. It’s also emerged as one of the best, evolving from a guilty pleasure at first to a first-rate tale of substance and even subtlety mixed with the cold steel of primal warfare. Read full review

Zach Hollwedel

Feb 20, 2015

Hirst transports us to a fascinating and brutal world, combining fact with fast-paced fiction into a show, the likes of which come around all too infrequently. As Ragnar does, so too does Season Three of Vikings expand its worldview beyond the inlet at Kattegat and into Medieval Europe, promising battles, glory, and adventures not to be missed. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Feb 19, 2015

Michael Hirst's saga of pillaging and migration remains everything it has been almost from its premiere. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Feb 18, 2015

While this is essentially the popcorn version of a quality serialized drama--with more overt appeal to men than most--Vikings--is the sort of nifty endeavor that can give the idea of shamelessly marauding in search of loot a good name. Read full review

Ken Tucker

Feb 19, 2015

Here is a series for an American audience that grants us the intelligence to be able to read subtitles, which are deployed to help convey the tart flavor of the various tongues spoken in the show. Combine this with the show’s frequently lovely visuals, and Vikings remains the kind of burly soap opera that appeals to an ever-wider audience. Read full review

Maureen Ryan

Feb 18, 2015

This is a show that knows exactly what viewers expect of it, and over the course of its three seasons, the saga of reticent raider Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) has shown increasing assuredness and has unpretentiously and reliably supplied exciting and bloody adventures. Read full review

Mike Hale

Feb 18, 2015

Vikings has benefited all along from the accomplished, subdued performances of a number of its cast, including Mr. Byrne, Mr. Roache, Clive Standen as Ragnar’s warlike brother and both Nathan O’Toole and Alexander Ludwig, who play Ragnar’s son Bjorn at different ages. But the heart of the show remains Mr. Fimmel’s smirking, withdrawn, not quite good but certainly distinctive performance as Ragnar. Read full review

User Score

Write a Review

7.1

User Reviews

josephgm

Dec 14, 2017

I loved this shows first two seasons, but they really upped the ante with the third season. Once again the show gives us terrfific cast performances(Travis Fimmel as Ragnar continues to be the highlight of the series), and amazing storytelling.

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

Korat

Jun 6, 2015

This show gets better and better as it goes on. It's one of the few shows where there's no filler to skip through. Season 3 is epic in every sense. This is becoming a must see show.

1 of 2 users found this helpful11

CocoandThor

Feb 26, 2015

From the first season I was hooked!
I don't have the patience for weak characters on a episode much less an entire season. Everyone has their own strengths, respectively.
What the issues are make a lot of sense if you believe in the twisted, sacrificial practices of the Vikings.

5 of 9 users found this helpful54

undercontrol

Jul 24, 2015

Vikings had me hooked since day 1. But the last season didn't really bring the same quality out as the first two seasons. The show seems to be loosing its unpredictable quality.
Actors are still doing a great job. The special effects are as always great. Not a 10 this time but a 8+

1 of 3 users found this helpful12

JLuis_001

Apr 5, 2018

An excessively slow season. The conflict never seems to be clear and when the time comes it seems to speed things up in order to get a more dramatic momentum like the death of Athelstan.

The last 3 episodes are the ones that save it from becoming the worst season.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

GarethB

Jan 5, 2019

still good but stuttering more until we get to Paris. The plot seems to be slowing down and unsure where to go.

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

Xyled777

Jan 18, 2017

I enjoyed the show up until the sex and porn, I gave the show numerous chances and watched it up until mid season 3. Even though Vikings are all about raping and pillaging, I don't wish to watch porn. I am sick of all the sex on TV and its getting way out of hand with all the perverts inI enjoyed the show up until the sex and porn, I gave the show numerous chances and watched it up until mid season 3. Even though Vikings are all about raping and pillaging, I don't wish to watch porn. I am sick of all the sex on TV and its getting way out of hand with all the perverts in Hollywood and in the Networks. I stopped watching the show after the episode tonight.… Expand

1 of 5 users found this helpful14

SEE ALL 21 REVIEWS

Seasons & Episodes

75

Series Overview
Season 6

tbd
- Season 6 Overview
  Air Date: December 4, 2019
Season 5

tbd
- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: November 29, 2017
Season 4

tbd
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: February 18, 2016
Season 3

81
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: February 19, 2015
- tbd
  S3:E10. The Dead
  Air Date: April 23, 2015
- tbd
  S3:E9. Breaking Point
  Air Date: April 16, 2015
- tbd
  S3:E8. To the Gates!
  Air Date: April 9, 2015
- tbd
  S3:E7. Paris
  Air Date: April 2, 2015
- tbd
  S3:E6. Born Again
  Air Date: March 26, 2015
- tbd
  S3:E5. The Usurper
  Air Date: March 19, 2015
- tbd
  S3:E4. Scarred
  Air Date: March 12, 2015
- tbd
  S3:E3. Warrior's Fate
  Air Date: March 5, 2015
- tbd
  S3:E2. The Wanderer
  Air Date: February 26, 2015
- tbd
  S3:E1. Mercenary
  Air Date: February 19, 2015
Season 2

77
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: February 27, 2014
Season 1

71
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: March 3, 2013