VIKING: Valhalla, old sequel for Viking MGM, recently fell on Netflix. Series fans will be happy to know that the second season has been filmed and confirmed to return in 2023. Here are all we know so far about Vikings: Valhalla Season 2 on Netflix.
Vikings: Valhalla is the original Netflix historical drama made by Michael Hirst and spin-off of the popular historical channel series, Viking. This series is produced by MGM Productions, such as its predecessor which lasts for six seasons.
Viking events: Valhalla lasted a hundred years after the Great Viking Army sailed for England, led by the son of Ragnar Lothbrok who was looking for revenge for his death.
We’re going to go deep into what we know about season 2 below so if you’re just looking for the highlights, here they are:
- The show will return for season 2 in 2023 (no specific date given)
- The show will also return for a third season.
- Production on season 3 is due to start in Spring (specifically May 2022)
- Jeb Stuart continues his role as showrunner for seasons 2 & 3
- Sam Corlett (Leif Eriksson), Frida Gustavsson (Freydis Eriksdotter) and Leo Suter (Harald Sigurdsson) are confirmed to return.
Is Viking: Valhalla is updated for the second season?
Not only Viking: Valhalla has been updated for a moment, but has been announced before that Vikings: Valhalla has also been extended for the third season.
The reason for this initial update was a large order in advance the event received when it was first announced. 24 episodes are required in total.
Netflix also obtained the rights of licenses for the original Vikings series as part of this agreement with Netflix UK and US Netflix will still receive 1-6 season within several years.
Netflix officially confirmed the fact that Vikings: Valhalla will return for two additional seasons on March 9, 2022.
Considering how popular the predecessor of the show, Viking, is, Netflix is very confident that Viking: Valhalla will be a big hit for them.
How good is Viking: Valhalla appears on Netflix?
Thanks to Netflix Top 10 Data We have good insight into how well the show is. For the first two days on the platform, registered 80.56 million hours of watch making it the second most watched show that Sunday.
Between February 25 and April 3, 2022 (the first 37 days of the show available) the show had collected 265,550,000 hours at Netflix.
| Week Period | Hours Viewed(M) | Rank | Week in Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 20th, 2022 to February 27th, 2022 | 80,560,000 | 2 | 1 |
| February 27th, 2022 to March 6th, 2022 | 113,380,000 (+41%) | 1 | 2 |
| March 6th, 2022 to March 13th, 2022 | 41,760,000 (-63%) | 4 | 3 |
| March 13th, 2022 to March 20th, 2022 | 19,800,000 (-53%) | 8 | 4 |
| March 27th, 2022 to April 3rd, 2022 | 10,050,000 (-49%) | 9 | 5 |
Making comparisons is pretty difficult with this new hourly data but we can see that Vikings: Valhalla performed favorably (at least in the first 2-3 weeks) compared to The Last Kingdom which also released in early 2022.
Nielsen data for Vikings: Valhalla Season 1
Nielsen every week publishes various top 10s (usually a month behind) that gives an insight into how well the show is performing in the United States.
Again, in the first week listed below, Vikings: Valhalla was only available for 2 days.
| Week | Rank That Week (Original Titles) | Minutes (Millions) |
|---|---|---|
| 02/21-02/27 | 8 | 796 |
| 02/28-03/06 | 2 | 1079 |
The show was a hit with critics with RottenTomatoes scoring it at 89% (classified as Certified Fresh) however audience scores are less favorable. On RottenTomatoes, the audience score as of early April 2022 is sitting at 54%. Over on IMDb, the show is sitting at a much more favorable 7.2 with episode 8 having a score of 8.1.
The critical consensus is as follows:
“Reveling in the glory of straightforward adventure storytelling, Valhalla is a bloody good dramatization of Leif Eriksson’s conquests.”
What is the production status of Vikings: Valhalla season 2?
Official Production Status: Post-Production (Last Updated: 01/03/2022)
Subscribers will be delighted to learn that filming has already wrapped on the second season of Vikings: Valhalla. We previously reported in November 2021 that the production of the series has wrapped in Ireland.
Jeb Stuart confirmed that around the season 1 released that he “completed the editing of the last two-season episode”. It shows us that the show will sit down for about a year before falling.
Production prepares for season 3 too. As part of the second and third Netflix confirmation, they stated that production will begin in spring 2022. We have learned that they are preparing throughout April with a display to start filming in May 2022.
Talking to Digitalspy, Jeb Stuart told them that season 3 “very interesting” and “My Vikings came out of Scandinavia, so we had a lot of big surprises.”
When is VIKING: Valhalla 2 season release date?
At the time of publication, Netflix has not announced the right release date for Viking: Valhalla Season 2 outside the General 2023 release date. However, we can guess when we can expect the second season to arrive.
With the production wrapped in the second season in November 2021, we will most likely see the second season arriving at Netflix in early 2023 between January and March 2023.
What is expected from the second season of Vikings: Valhalla?
Just like the predecessor show, Vikings: Valhalla requires a lot of creative freedom by trading historical accuracy for action and drama. However, there are many significant events recorded that occur during the historical period we can see in season 2 and so on.
Leif lucky red?
The East Greenlander’s journey has brought a lot of pain and sadness to Leif and his sister, Freydis. All of their colleagues sailed with them to Denmark finally died. The biggest death to impact Leif for life, his lover, and fellow soldiers who died during the invasion of Kattegate.
LIF is the only person who keeps Leif grounded and stops him from being like his famous father’s son, Erik the Red. His death saw Leif Snap, which resulted in explorers who wear a pair of double axes, no armor, and one alone recorded all groups of Viking soldiers without sweating. His war scream indicated that like his father before him, Leif embraced his bloodthirsty properties.
Fate is often cruel, and if Leif follows in the footsteps of his father, he might find himself discarded or exiled from the world of Viking, forcing famous explorers to sail to the west and build Vinland, the first European settlement in America.
Harold, the future Norwegian king?
One of the biggest creative freedom that Viking: Valhalla has taken with history is the initial appearance of Harald Sigurdson, more famously known as Harold Hardrada.
Harold’s exploitation in the Viking world is legendary, but no of those who took place during Viking events: Valhalla as Norwegian’s future king was only a baby, born to Asta and Sigurd in Ringerike, Norway, at 1015, one year after the destruction of the London bridge.
Harald described in Valhalla has open support from the king of Cnut but with the fate of his half-brother Olaf is currently unknown, not to mention the kattegat with Freydis, Harald’s trip to become the king is still far away.
Speaking with a wrap, Leo Suter told them:
“Harald is already chaotic. Massively messed up and moreover, not only he has been chaotic but the people he loved were chaotic. So the relationship, as you say, is very damaged. And it will take a lot to recover. But yes, of course there are some serious mistakes that have happened. So let’s look at season 2 what happened with it.
Raja Cnut, and the North Sea Empire
Assisted by his ambitious wife, Emma Normandy, and his father Sweyn Forkbeard, the vision of King Cnut about the Great Northern Empire firmly within reach.
Taktas Taktas Queen Emma against Queen ælfgifu gave Sweyn enough time to find her son’s fleet and sail to Kattegat. With ælfgifu now out of the picture, England firmly under the CNUT government.
Cnut had fought in Denmark but did not have his fleet thanks to ælfgifu. With his father, Sweyn now helped Kattegat defense, it would not be long before Denmark was under the rule of King Norse.
After Cnut was the Danish king, his dream to form the North Sea Empire would come true.
But, like all the big kingdoms and kingdoms, when the rulers died, and the land was there to be divided, hoping to see many ambitious individuals moving on the three Kingdoms of Cnut.
Last freydis?
With the destruction of the upsala and the rise of Christianity in the Viking world, the worship of old gods grew weaker on that day. Freydis and Greenlander are worshipers in the old way, but even Leif has been interested in Christianity as a means to explain all the magical ways he survives dead.
It is still unclear what is meant by “the last,” and what it means freydis. It can show that freydis may be the last person who is able to spread the worship of old ways and his destiny can lie to being a high pastor or a fortune teller.
What is the count of episodes for season 2?
Every Viking season: Valhalla will consist of eight episodes.
In total there will be 24 episodes of Viking: Valhalla spread to 3 seasons.