I would like Lagertha and Thorunn to interact, especially if Lagertha's about to become a grandmother. Maybe they had to cut the scene for time, but Lagertha didn't even ask about how Thorunn or even Bjorn was doing after battle when she met Ragnar.

Last season she had a fluffy cat. I'm convinced that cat will come into play to defeat Kalf.

Mercians tip their spears with jellyfish.

Considering the amount of damage Rollo's been put through, the man must have an amazing immune system.

Horik had two sons of fighting age. One was killed pretty much upon arrival in England, and Horik seemed pretty devastated. The surviving one pressured Siggy into sex and looks like a reject from an MTV series. And now he has a mullet.
Prince Abercrombie, a non-shieldmaiden widow, and a baby - real crack team Kalf…

They really should have hired another actor for Horik's son.

I agree with you about the "wanderer."
Aslaug: Who are you?
Habard: Just a plot device.

So Queen Jean is just a brown-haired mannequin with a pregnant belly. Good way to keep down costs and make it easy to re-cast if they ever decide to do something with her.

Siggy saw her daughter, Thyri, who died in the same epidemic as Gyda at the end of season 1.

I feel like Athelstan has probably been at least halfway in love with Lagertha since he met her and would drop Judith in a heartbeat if Lagertha ever made him think he had a chance. I don't know if she'd ever settle for a man willing to be subservient. Maybe she'd say, "Athelstan, let's make a pact, if in ten years,…

I was thinking the same thing, with Auslaug in the Tsarina role.

I might be misremembering, but I thought much of the sons' anger was based on greed. They were upset that Isobel would outlive their father and then have control of the estate. That never made sense to me, because, unless Merton wrote a will specifying that, wouldn't she be relegated to a dower house, like Violet…

Do you think we're supposed to think the mistress is Jewish, or is Sinderby an extra-special hypocrite considering his lectures about how Rose's children wouldn't be Jewish because their mother isn't?

What I can't get past in the photo is the feeling that Mary is trying to hang George up on the tree. "What do you mean I shouldn't, Mama? After all, he's purely decorative."

Sybil was a great and likeable character. It's unfortunate that she had to be written off in such an indelible way, and doubly unfortunate for the actress that her career seems to have stalled since leaving. Clearly, Julian Fellowes and the cast misses her. At least half the episodes this season have taken time for…

Mary: "Dearest Sybil, our angel in Heaven, know that your kindness and goodness continues to inspire us here on Earth. We live better lives for having known you, and our loving memories of your grace, charm, hope, and faith in humanity sustain us until we may one day be united with your loving spirit. You were truly…

I expected Floki to be looking after Thorstein, since he helped heal Ragnar in season 1. He could have at least had a line about how he was out of herbs and didn't know what to use in England.
As for Judith, what I don't like is that her new characterization is both a ret-con and illogical. She and Athelstan lived in…

His grudging tolerance made Cora so happy! "Baxter, break open the new shipment! Tonight, my laudanum's for everyone!"

This was an instance where in previous episodes I found him unobjectionable, but some switch just turned to "Hate! Hate! Hate!"

By order of Parliament, henceforth the Empire's penal system shall be divided thusly: men's prisons, women's prisons, and Bates' prisons.