ONE TO WATCH
Blood and guts
Vikings: Valhalla / Netflix, streaming now
At around the same time as Vikings: Valhalla debuted last year, Netflix announced there would be a second and then third series. It’s easy to see why. Although you would guess that much day-to-day life in the 11th century consisted of muddy subsistence agriculture, showing due respect to local bigwigs, and worrying about nasty diseases, life for explorer Leif Erikson (Sam Corlett) is considerably more exciting.
Which isn’t to say it’s easy, and here we should warn you that mild spoilers for season one, which is also available to stream, lie ahead. If the first season was underpinned by the idea of Erikson, son of Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland, making his way amongst the great and
