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12 Legendary Shows to Watch After Vikings: Valhalla
Set sail with your next streaming adventure.
By Liam Mathews
July 18, 2024
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The valkyries have come for Vikings: Valhalla. After three glorious seasons, the Vikings sequel series has reached its conclusion, and the sagas of Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett), Freydís Eiríksdóttir (Frida Gustavsson), and Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter) will continue only in the history books. But that doesn’t mean you have to stop exploring the streaming seas.
If you’re looking for more shows like Vikings: Valhalla to watch on Netflix, here are 12 muscular suggestions. There are historical dramas, naturally — with some combination of swords, mythology, adventure, and bearded men — but there’s more beyond that, too. Get ready to go berserk for your next favorite show.
Vikings
There’s a good chance that if you watched Vikings: Valhalla, you’ve also watched Vikings — but if not, now’s the perfect time to start (or revisit it). So set sail with the series, which is set about 100 years before the events of Vikings: Valhalla. It follows the military, political, and spiritual adventures of Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel), his warrior wife Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick), their son Bjorn Ironside (Alexander Ludwig), and many other real and/or legendary historical figures. It shares themes, locations, and a timeline with Vikings: Valhalla and makes for another epic watch.
The Last Kingdom
To oversimplify things a bit, The Last Kingdom tells Vikings and Vikings: Valhalla’s story from the Anglo-Saxon perspective. It’s a beards-and-swords historical drama about Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon), a Saxon raised by Danes who’s fighting to take back his ancestral home amidst the Viking conquest of England. It ran for five seasons before concluding with a movie, Seven Kings Must Die, in 2023.
Norsemen
If Vikings: Valhalla was a comedy, it’d look something like Norsemen. The Norwegian series takes the violent elements of Valhalla and turns them on their head, finding humor in the constant brutality of Vikings’ lives. It’s the kind of show where the archer who’s supposed to shoot the flaming arrow during a Viking funeral misses the floating pyre, preventing the dead Viking from reaching Valhalla. Whoops!
Barbarians
Moving south from Scandinavia, we reach Barbarians, a German series set in the first century AD. It takes place on the muddy battlefields of Germania, where the residents are rising up against Roman occupation. They’re led by Arminius (Laurence Rupp), a Cherusci chieftain raised by the Romans who defects from the Roman army to try to lead his tribe to freedom. Barbarians’ fight scenes are even more intense than Vikings: Valhalla’s.
Troy: Fall of a City
This limited series is a loose retelling of the Iliad that focuses on the star-crossed romance between Prince Paris (Louis Hunter) and Helen of Troy (Bella Dayne), a love so strong it started a war. The way the show blends historical drama and ancient myth will make sense to Vikings: Valhalla viewers. And the presence of Greek gods as characters gives it a mystical dimension that some other shows like Vikings: Valhalla lack.
Marco Polo
If you’re flailing around in the water with your eyes closed looking for another show like Vikings: Valhalla, consider your search over. This epic historical drama is built around the relationship between Kublai Khan (Benedict Wong), the leader of the Mongol Empire, and Marco Polo (Lorenzo Richelmy), the young Venetian explorer who becomes Khan’s European emissary in 13th-century China. Vikings: Valhalla fans will find a familiar mix of political intrigue, steamy romance, and exciting action.
Frontier
Jason Momoa is not a Viking, but he could be. The brawny star plays antihero Declan Harp, an outlaw fur trapper going up against the powerful Hudson’s Bay Company in 1700s Canada. He’s trying to break the company’s monopoly on the fur trade with extreme prejudice. No matter the time period, you can always find a show about a rugged, pelt-clad guy fighting the English.
The Witcher
For a more fantastical take on Vikings: Valhalla vibes, check out The Witcher. This epic, medieval-influenced fantasy series follows monster-slayer Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill in Seasons 1–3, Liam Hemsworth in the upcoming final two seasons), who’s sworn to protect Princess Ciri (Freya Allan) as they travel across the enchanted Continent to meet their destinies. No matter who’s playing Geralt, he’s a strapping fellow who knows how to swing a sword.
Ragnarok
Here’s something completely different that some Vikings: Valhalla lovers may still appreciate for its contemporary take on Norse mythology. Ragnarok is a Norwegian supernatural teen drama that follows Magne (David Stakston), a high school student who’s the reincarnation of Thor, the Norse god of thunder, as he fights the wicked Jutuls, a family of disguised jötnar (the gods’ nemeses) whose factories are polluting the town. In the series, Ragnarok — the mythical, apocalyptic final battle between the gods and their enemies — becomes an epic fight where the stakes are climate change.
Record of Ragnarok
Let’s close the list with something totally outside the box. This anime is inspired by the Old Norse gods that Freydís worships, but puts them in a very different context. The gods have decided to exterminate humanity unless humankind’s strongest champions can defeat the gods in seven of 13 head-to-head gladiator battles. It’s an unusual vision of Ragnarok’s death and rebirth that adventurous Vikings: Valhalla fans might think is cool, knowing what they know about Norse mythology.
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