The Last Kingdom - new series for BBC based on Bernard Cornwell's Saxon stories

lurkio · 1 Apr 2017 at 16:52

lee32uk said:
Really enjoying Season 2 so far. Poor Halig though

Yeah poor bugger

Really like this show

robfosters · 4 May 2017 at 20:20

Last episode tonight. This season has been much better than season 1 imo. Should be a good finale too.

J.T · 5 May 2017 at 08:26

That was a great second season, last episode was a corker!

Could Alfred be any more of a douche!

robfosters · 5 May 2017 at 10:15

J.T said:
That was a great second season, last episode was a corker!

Could Alfred be any more of a douche!

Yep, that end was tragic for Odda. All he ever wanted to do was serve his king. Alfred's got God complex I feel.

lee32uk · 6 May 2017 at 02:14

Yeah Odda always had Wessex's best interests at heart even if he was a Drunk. Hopefully Alfred will get His comeuppance if there is a 3rd Series (Fingers crossed).

mithrandir · 6 May 2017 at 02:33

Just watched the last episode on iPlayer. Excellent season and really hope season 3 gets the green light.

TheMightyTen · 18 May 2018 at 10:24

Series 3 has definitely been confirmed now and will be Netflix only as the BBC has pulled out since it's blatantly allergic to making entertaining historical dramas that aren't authored by the Bronte Sisters or Jane Austen :rolleyes:

Should be released towards the end of the year and really looking forward to it as they got series 2 so much better than 1

J.T · 18 May 2018 at 11:09

I'm not to bothered where it will be as long as it comes back, glad I have Netflix already though! lol

robfosters · 18 May 2018 at 11:14

Nice one. Enjoyed this so far. Netflix will probably do a better job anyway.

varkanoid · 18 May 2018 at 11:16

Filming finished on series 3 May 11th. In Post now. Check https://twitter.com/thelastkingdom for behind scenes stuff.

robfosters · 18 May 2018 at 11:18

TheMightyTen said:
Series 3 has definitely been confirmed now and will be Netflix only as the BBC has pulled out since it's blatantly allergic to making entertaining historical dramas that aren't authored by the Bronte Sisters or Jane Austen

Add Dickens to that list.

ttaskmaster · 18 May 2018 at 11:30

TheMightyTen said:
the BBC has pulled out since it's blatantly allergic to making entertaining historical dramas that aren't authored by the Bronte Sisters or Jane Austen

They did well enough with their version of Dumas's Musketeers....

TheMightyTen · 18 May 2018 at 12:08

robfosters said:
Add Dickens to that list.

I'll give you that

ttaskmaster said:
They did well enough with their version of Dumas's Musketeers....

it was appalling

ttaskmaster · 18 May 2018 at 12:55

TheMightyTen said:
it was appalling

It wasn't 100% novel-accurate, perhaps, but they were trying not to do the same tired old things all the other versions had - How often do you see Musketeers actually using Muskets... or a D'Artagnan that isn't an utterly annoying idiot?

In fact, the stereotypical D'Art isn't that different from the TV Uhtred, really...!

Efour · 19 May 2018 at 17:08

I watched this on Netflix over here and loved it. Didn't realise it was based on Bernard Cornwell's books.
I'm a huge Sharpe fan. I'll deffo have to acquire season 2 from somewhere of it's not on netfliN

TheMightyTen · 21 May 2018 at 09:00

Efour said:
I watched this on Netflix over here and loved it. Didn't realise it was based on Bernard Cornwell's books.
I'm a huge Sharpe fan. I'll deffo have to acquire season 2 from somewhere of it's not on netfliN

Season 2 is up on UK Netflix (went up mid April), I don't know if that was World wide or just UK/US.

Efour · 21 May 2018 at 11:46

Not in Sweden yet

TheMightyTen · 22 May 2018 at 08:37

They just don't like seeing Viking butt kicked by Alfred and the traitorous adopted son of a Viking

fornowagain · 19 Nov 2018 at 15:32

Get your Uhtred fix. Season 3 just went up on Netflix. Someone turned up the gore factor over the BBC production. Season 3 covers the two novels The Burning Land and Death of Kings.

ttaskmaster · 19 Nov 2018 at 16:03