Vikings
Season 3 Episode 5: “The Usurper”
Directed by Helen Shaver
Written and Created by Michael Hirst
Starring Travis Fimmel, Clive Standen, Katheryn Winnick, George Blagden, Alyssa Sutherland, Maude Hirst, Linus Roache, and Gustaf Skarsgard.
The History Channel
Air Date: Thursday, March 19, 2015, 10:00pm

Last week and this week’s episodes of The History Channel’s period drama Vikings have been crazy. Here’s my review of tonight’s episode, which is called “The Usurper.”

Details of last week’s and this week’s episodes will be recapped below, so spoiler alert!

In The History Channel’s Vikings Season 3 “Relationship Issues” featurette, series creator Michael Hirst discusses the first apparent theme in Vikings Season 3, the complicated relationships between all the couples. It explains why almost everyone is anxious to leave their homes for the guaranteed violence awaiting them in Wessex.

Watch the video below.

The actors and creator explain their interpretations in the video, while I’ve mixed in a little of my own opinions below.