It's bizarre how the "Wolf" group (maybe we can just call them the two-man wolf pack) is both ruthlessly, evilly efficient + incompetent. The guy held up Morgan with an unloaded gun? It was entertaining, but kind of silly, how he gave his Bad Guy lecture to Morgan, about tribes, and wolves, before threatening him.…

spoiling it

I'm with you, re: Silver Linings Playbook. To me, it was some sort of misguided Strictly Ballroom meets… something I didn't ever want to see. Plus, I felt like young Jennifer Lawrence with Bradley Cooper, who has to be 20 years older… just, ewww.

The title of this article is a word or two away from being an Onion headline.
EDIT: Maybe the name of the network needs to be switched out…

Nice round number, but that sounds a bit long, for something whose end we already know. Actually, this show might have been better just as a mini-series, or a two-season deal at best. Wouldn't have to fit in all of these extraneous side plots.

Have the show creators announced how many seasons Bates Motel might go on for? I wonder because, it's so very creepy at times, that knowing when the show ends could be a bit of a pay off. In other words, you can stomach certain scenes knowing that the series finale will be soon, and things won't either just keep…

I took it a different way than KWhoa — I assumed that it was a power play, and in a way that - objectively speaking - was appropriate. It wouldn't have been that surprising if the old earl's wife and daughter had been killed. So, I thought it was kind of a, "Okay, I let you live — be happy, okay? But I have the power…

Here is what I predict with Ecbert — the official story is that it was Aethelwulf and co. who took it upon themselves to kill the Vikings. I believe when Ragnar comes, he will not doubt confront Ecbert in person, and blame his son. I believe he will probably end up killing his son.

I get you — one thing is, too - I just rewatched the episode, and you know that scene during the Yay, Kalf's Here! feast, when it's Ragnar and Athelstan and Mysterious Effeminate Wanderer Dude talking about Paris… at the end of the scene, the Dude was like, "Fuck yeah, Paris!!!" And Ragnar and Athelstan kind of…

Several things I noticed after watching the episode a second time:

There really is a kind of logic to Ragnar going back to Wessex and taking revenge. The agreement with Ecbert felt like a, "Okay, we've done the raping/pillaging thing to death… we need to become farmers…" It was like a treaty. Ecbert broke it. And he thinks Ragnar is going to just leave things be?
I guess what I'm…

I don't think Athelstan (non-physically) restrained him, did he? What scene(s) are you thinking of?

I could totally go for Judith killing some Athelwulf. Sheesh The guy's this horrible combination of Zealot and Coward. He's brave in battle, but that's it. Floki is also a Zealot, and he's brave in battle, too. But he somehow seems braver in other ways. He sure doesn't care what other people think, and that can be a…

YES. Favorite scene of the whole series, and maybe my favorite tv scene ever. It sounds like a cliche at this point, but I cried, too. And it wasn't even over Gyda. It was over Ragnar's sorrow over her death. "A man can be jealous of his son, but not of his daughter…"

Okay, so we obviously disagree on this one. But him being 100% Christian at the end was vital in terms of how he died, and also showed Ragnar's open-mindedness. Athelstan would never have been able to find piece trying to adhere to two faiths at once. Plus, I imagine that he felt guilt about having sex with Judith…

I think that Athelstan's return to Christianity was vital — he had devoted his life to being a monk. And although he had made himself a home with the Vikings, he was always conflicted.

I can't see Ragnar killing Floki. I think Ragnar will disown him as a friend, and that will probably be punishment enough. (Also, who's gonna build the boats? Ragnar is pragmatic, after all.)

I don't think the torture was under the guise of Christian charity, although they did try to pretend torture was the punishment for adultery. It made me realize that with so much of the population being illiterate, a priest could probably just say something happened in the Bible and most people couldn't contradict him.

Although I was also surprised that Bjorn joined Team Floki, it kind of makes sense. He and Floki have always had a special bond (like when Floki watched over Bjorn in the last episode or so of Season 2).
And things are a bit broken between Bjorn and Ragnar. We haven't seen them alone much, and one of the last times…

It never occurred to me until I read your comment, but I guess the slaughter in Wessex was the last straw for Floki. (I had initially attributed it to Floki's vision.)
When Earl Borg (?)'s son asked Ragnar about Wessex, it sure seemed like he knew about the disaster that occurred there.