It is a TV series for 2015. I netflixed the first disk. It is a historical drama, Vikings vs Saxons in 900 AD England. I watched episode 1. I don't think I will bother with the rest of them.
They hired the worthless cameraman from Game of Thrones, the one who turns the lights out on set before filming. Some black on black scenes, and all the scenes so poorly lit I could not tell one character from another. Plus everyone dressed alike, identical outfits of furs and grey homespun. We see the protagonist start off as a 12 year old Saxon heir to an important Saxon noble family. He gets captured by and raised by the Vikings. We see him as a 12 year old, and suddenly a time jump and he is a young man. Uhtred serves more as a target for abuse, both from his Saxon family and his Viking adoptive family than a real protagonist. If Uhtred has a mission to accomplish, or a quest to go on, you couldn't prove it by me. His relationship with a girlfriend is pretty tentative, we never hear the girlfriend's name.
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