The Last Kingdom season 4 - Uhtred, son of Uhtred / father of another Uhtred, is still fine at a pinch. However meager his resources — whether they are freshly stripped tree branches or a Saxon child's headless corpse — he makes the most of what's accessible.

Uhtred’s A-Team ingenuity in episode four bought him valuable time in the fight against Cnut’s superior forces. The bit of hastily assembled panto he performed to make Cnut think he’d murdered his heir not only saved Aethelflaed from having to sacrifice herself to the Danes, but also gave the Saxon coalition the advantage in battle.

Cnut was lured into an away game when he’d planned a home match. Then he and his men were lured into a Looney Tunes-style pit. The sight of all those ferocious Danes squirming in a puppy pile at the bottom of Uhtred’s trench would have been comical were it not all so intensely exciting.



Intense excitement was very much the mood of episode four, the second half of which as so filled with action you could almost see the accompanying comic book sound effect bubbles. Whomp! Blam! Pow! Aaghh! Bang! Ouch! Clang!

It was an exhilarating, blood-splattered fight, judiciously conducted to provide bursts of chaos interspersed with emotional character peril. Young Uhtred almost died but was saved. Aethelflaed almost died but was saved. Aethelred almost died but was saved (boo!) but was left with a nasty looking head wound (hooray!).



Steapa and Cnut didn’t make it (respectively, boo and hooray). For an over-long moment, it even looked likely that we might lose Brida, but so soon after taking Beocca, surely the gods wouldn’t be that cruel?

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