Megan Applegate recaps the sixth episode of Vikings season 2…This week’s episode title, “Unforgiven” could have been interpreted a couple ways.The first? The most obvious.Jarl Borg journeys from his home to Kattegat with Rollo to forge a new, better-than-the-last-time-these-guys-screwed-me-over deal with Ragnar and King Horik.He’s tentative, but eventually thanks Ragnar for forgiving him for that […]

Megan Applegate recaps episode 5 of Vikings season 2….Like most family reunions, Lagertha and Bjorn’s return to the fold was a little awkward and a heap sentimental.The episode doesn’t take long to get into the full swing of things and soon Ragnar and a Bjorn (along with two sacrificial Vikings) set out to Kattegat to […]

Megan Applegate recaps the fourth episode of Vikings Season 2… So, I’ll just come right out and say that the only thing that ruined this week’s episode, which featured (finally!) a reunion I’d been dying for, was a very-near dying of a favorite character and a crucifixion. But more on that later.Episode 4 starts out […]

Megan Applegate recaps the third episode of Vikings Season 2…“Hide the good silver, the Northmen are coming”When we last left Ragnar and his merry men, they’d had gone a-Viking and landed a little off the mark—in Wessex and in the kingdom of a rather menacing Ecbert.“Treachery” opens with our band of Vikings walking upon a […]

A Scandinavian Fast Forward… Megan Applegate recaps the second episode of Vikings Season 2….Holy time warps! The writers wasted no time in this week’s episode and splashed a “Four Years Later” before the opening credits were cold in their graves.This week’s theme seems to be about temptation — the lusty kind, the political kind, and […]

No Fury Like Lagertha Scorned – Megan Applegate recaps the first episode of Vikings season 2…Well, not so much fury as agonizing heartbreak, but we’ll get to that in a moment.So Long, One EyeThe eye-patched Viking rides across the battle field, reminding Rollo (Clive Standen)  how they’ve fought bravely many times together, and would he […]