Note: no Vikings spoilers in this post! I started watching Vikings seven years ago, and tore through the first three seasons before faltering in the fourth. Part of it was general life tumult, and part of it was that season four is a transition season. Not only did the series expand from 8—10 episodes a season to a solid 20 episodes, new characters started to come into their own. While these storylines made sense on paper, the on-screen implementation is ham-handed and it’s clear the writers weren’t fully confident in pacing out 20 hours of content.