‘The Last Kingdom’ to End With Season 5 on Netflix
"The Last Kingdom" will end with its upcoming Season 5 on Netflix.
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‘The Last Kingdom’ to End With Season 5 on Netflix
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Binging it this was part of the charm. Here's the new female for him to bang. Time to set his standing back to season 1. Then the battle, then the reset
sad it's ending it made me buy Valhalla which I still haven't tried yet
i feel like my brain still melds parts of this with vikings, but i really enjoy the last kingdom. i hope season 5 doesn't end up like vikings season 6 :(
Sounds about right. The series has been generally good but it's about time we end it before the inevitable downfall.
There's a lot of ground to cover and we won't be getting to the whole united England bit (though really that's a bit dodgy anyway and the country was back under a Danish king within a century).
Cornwell is known for his formula writing. He writes very entertaining but predictable and repetitive books.
I finished the book series and while I loved it, it becomes a bit of a meme.
I finished the book series and while I loved it, it becomes a bit of a meme.
I am amused by his love-interests getting progressively sexed-up season after season. If this went eight seasons, Uhtred would have had to be banging a sphere of blinding light or something by the end.
Let's be honest here. Anything after
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This show lost something for me when....
Five seasons is a good run though, still sad to see it end.
King Alfred(David Dawson) died and it hasn't been the same since. Not to say it hasn't been good it's just his character was an integral part of the show and his loss had a pretty significant impact. Wasn't shocking either....you knew it was coming.....just sad when it finally happened.
Five seasons is a good run though, still sad to see it end.
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Same. Season 4 just wasn't the same, I watched a few episodes of it and haven't had the energy to come back. I'll finish it at some point though, I've really enjoyed the series.
To all the people saying it's okay to stop at 5 - you do realize they only needed 1 more season (and a half) to finish the series right 😔
Not sure how they'd compress the remaining books into one and a half seasons.
The books did as well but that's why they were so fun. Evil Danish invasion, Uhtred fall from Grace, Uhtred concocts genius strategic plan to defeat Danes, Uhtred reaps rewards and is landed, rinse repeat. It's silly but the show and books were always about the fun characters and the smart ways Uhtred would devise to beat overwhelming odds.
Personally it's been one of my all time favorite shows by Netflix so I'm sad to see it go. There's very little in the way of good entertainment that covers that era so I fear it'll be years before we'll see anything similar
Edit: love to see all the support for the show in here. Very few people every talk about it on Era and it's a shame. It's a seriously undervalued show
They'd have to age up Alexender Dreymon quite a bit for the story told in the final books. But yeah, maybe we'll see some of the key narrative threads from those books integrated into the final season.
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...Is it? Vikings began declining steadily just a few seasons in—and then fell off a cliff when a certain someone left.
The Last Kingdom hasn't shown any such degradation in quality, IMO. This isn't really something you can treat as inevitable just because a vaguely similar show deteriorated.
Sure, I'd rather end the show strong than have a Vikings or Game of Thrones situation occur—but neither of those shows fell apart just because of the time elapsed or number of seasons. They fell apart because their writing sucked and/or their showrunners mentally checked out.
I liked Vikings just fine until that certain someone left the stage, which was at the end of season 4, if memory serves. I still loved TLK s4, but it is kinda evident it's treading water a little, and Alfred's exit might be a sign of the cliff edge fast approaching.
Who knows, maybe s5 is actually stellar and I'll be saying "damn I wish they could continue", but at this point, I'm okay with getting just one more season.
