
Shows that feel likeVikings (2013–2020)
If you loved Vikings, the closest series we have are The Last Kingdom (2015), The Pacific (2010) and Band of Brothers (2001). All three share Vikings' contemplative and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Into the Badlands (2015).
If Vikings hit the spot, these will too

The same era from the other shore — Saxons versus Danes
The difference: One warrior's oath-torn path

Warriors ground down by campaigns far from home
The difference: WWII realism, no sagas

Brothers-in-arms across a long campaign, counting who is left
The difference: Real history, told with reverence and no myth-making

Brotherhood forged in repeated combat
The difference: Modern military procedural

A warrior culture with codes, feuds and beautifully staged violence
The difference: Martial-arts fantasy in a post-collapse world

Ambition, faith and politics settled by men with swords
The difference: Feudal Japan, and the manoeuvring matters more than the battles

The same mix in both: momentum, then scale
The difference: Easier on the stillness than Vikings

Action & adventure with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases
The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Vikings does

One thread runs through both: king
The difference: Leans harder into sci-fi & fantasy than Vikings does

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A society whose religion licenses what is done to people
The difference: Dystopian and modern, told entirely from the victim's side

War & politics built on momentum, twice over
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