Historical dramas have made fighting for a crown look like a particularly dangerous career choice. Winning a battle rarely settles anything when relatives, allies, and neighboring rulers all have their own ideas about who should inherit the throne. For audiences who spent years following Vikings, that uncertainty was a huge part of the attraction. A victory could change someone’s fortunes without making them any safer.
Michael Hirst helped make those struggles compelling by giving the people behind them ambitions that extended beyond the battlefield. The family conflicts could be as consequential as an invading army, especially when loyalty to a ruler collided with loyalty to a spouse or child. His next Norse drama puts a married couple at the center of that fight, with their pursuit of power threatening to draw an entire region into conflict.
Prime Video’s Bloodaxe will premiere on January 20, 2027, with all eight episodes of its first season arriving together. The date was revealed during a panel at New York Comic Con featuring Jessica Madsen and Levi Miller, which also debuted the series’ first teaser trailer and teaser key art. The drama will launch exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories. A second season has already been ordered and is currently in production in Ireland, giving viewers another chapter to anticipate before the first begins.
What Fantasy World Do You Belong To?
Middle-earth · Grand Line · The Continent · Camp Half-Blood
Pick your magic, your crew, where you want to wake up and who you would rather be fighting, and we will tell you which world you actually belong in. Four are open to you: an ancient kingdom living through its last good age, an endless sea full of pirates, a continent that pays people to kill monsters, and a summer camp where the Greek gods are extremely real and mostly a nuisance.
Middle-earth(Rings of Power)
Grand Line(One Piece)
The Continent(The Witcher)
Camp Half-Blood(Percy Jackson)
