Status: Final Season
Original Run: October 10, 2015 –
Current Seasons: 5
Network(s): BBC America, BBC Two, Netflix
Genre: Adventure, Historical Drama
Number of Viewers*: 30 million
TVscorecards user score: 93%
Series Information:
The Last Kingdom is a British historical fiction TV series. It is based on Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Stories series of novels. First premiering on BBC, the show is now on Netflix.
The storyline follows the 866 year when the Great Heathen Army arrived in Britain and changed the relationship between Vikings and Anglo-Saxons. The show focuses on the resistance of the Kingdom of Wessex to ongoing Viking incursions to Southern England. As Alfred the Great defeats the Norse invaders, Uhtred who was born as a Saxon but raised by the Vikings tries to claim his ancestral birthright.
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Very entertaining lots of action.
Thank you for not cancelling this great show
Agreed, thank you for not canceling, and for giving us closure with a final season so it can be done right.