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Starring: Alexander Dreymon, Harry Gilby, Mark Rowley, Arnas Fedaravicius, Cavan Clerkin, James Northcote, Laurie Davidson, Elaine Cassidy, Rod Hallet

OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆

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Netflix historical action drama directed by Edward Bazalgette. Sequel to the The Last Kingdom television series, in Seven Kings Must Die (2023), following the death of King Edward, as invaders and rival heirs battle for the crown, Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon) and his comrades adventure across a fractured kingdom in the hopes of uniting England.

 

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Finan: For a hundred years, there was chaos in our lands. War between Saxons and Dane invaders. And war between men who wanted to be kings. My lord, Uhtred, son of Uhtred, born a Saxon, but raised a Dane, had brought about a fragile peace. But as King Edward’s health faltered, trouble spread. And while most of the country was sworn to the Saxons, Uhtred’s land of Northumbria was not. And enemies were keen to exploit this.


 

Anlaf: A king dies, Saxons always turn on each other.


 

Aldhelm: Loyalties are shifting and factions forming. It is not certain who supports us. We should flee with your son whilst we can.
Queen Eadgifu: I will not forgive this. Nor forgive Aethelstan for leaving us exposed. Damn him for his absence.


 

Queen Eadgifu: Uhtred betrayed my husband. Are we sure this is wise?
Aldhelm: Uhtred was like a father to Aethelstan. He can be trusted. We go to the last kingdom.


 

Ingrith: Hear my words. “Seven kings must die”.


 

Uhtred: [to Eadgifu] Your husband showed himself hostile to those of Danish blood. As such, he was not the right man to unite England. If he had been, England would be united.
Aldhelm: But now things can be different. Aethelstan can be the king to fulfill the Saxon dream.


 

Uhtred: Do you think we can still execute an ambush?
Sihtric: If it is for Aethelstan, then yes. If he does not fall asleep.
Finan: Once. I fell asleep once.


 

Uhtred: I will not send young men to do a task I swore to do myself.


 

Osbert: No good comes of sitting waiting for a birthright.
Uhtred: So you train the horses and you teach that boy how to defend himself. No one likes the third son of a dead king.

 

'Men who sit on cold earth find the cold earth calls for them.' - Ingrith (Seven Kings Must Die) Click To Tweet

 

Queen Eadgifu: I wish to say one thing of Aethelstan. He is not quite the carefree boy you raised.
Aldhelm: He has grown very much into his faith. The Brotherhood of Oswald exert great influence.
Uhtred: I have scared off such men before. For some reason, monks find me terrifying.


 

Uhtred: Let’s go play kingmaker.
Finan: Once again.


 

Sihtric: Saxon names are much alike.


 

Finan: If there’s a bed, it’s mine.


 

Aethelstan: [as he stabs and kills Aelfweard] God chose me rightful heir.

 

'Whatever we suffer protects those we are apart from.' - Queen Eadgifu (Seven Kings Must Die) Click To Tweet

 

Uhtred: What happened to you? You had no need to kill your brother.
Aethelstan: I did, Uhtred. Or in time, he would return.
Uhtred: You dishonored your word, Aethelstan.
Aethelstan: I did not. I told him to yield. I did not say he would survive.


 

Uhtred: You kill one hundred fathers, you give three hundred sons a reason to defy you. Think! Now’s the time to unify.
Aethelstan: Uhtred may be right in this matter.
Uhtred: I speak only as a man who has made mistakes before.


 

Uhtred: Why the Danish name?
Ingilmundr: Born to a Dane, but raised a Saxon. I found Christ through the works of Alfred, and indeed through the writings of your son in Rome. You must be proud of him.
Uhtred: He is a true scholar. I’m just the fool who made him.


 

Ingilmundr: Honor your word. Swear to Aethelstan what you denied his father. Cede your lands and make England whole. As you say, it is the time for unity.
Uhtred: I will swear to a king, and you are not yet crowned. Nor will I kneel to you covered in blood.

 

'No warrior dies a peaceful death.' - Sihtric (Seven Kings Must Die) Click To Tweet

 

Ingilmundr: [referring to Uhtred] How did he know we were coming here?
Aethelstan: He’s always found a way to protect me.


 

Ingilmundr: [referring to the crowing of Aethelstan] Does Uhtred stand by his word?
Aethelstan: No. Uhtred has not come. Clearly, he…
Ingilmundr: He wishes to remain king in his own land. May God protect him from his vanity. But towards you, it is a cruelty.


 

Finan: It’s not Serpent’s Breath, but it’s lighter, it’s sharper, and it’s got a garnet. Give it a name. Manslayer. Ball-taker. Uhtred, Sword of Uhtred. You actually smiled, Lord.
Uhtred: Perhaps losing my sword was a sign that my battle days are over.


 

Uhtred: “Seven kings must die.” For what? What did your wife see?
Finan: She sees nothing. I swear.


 

Aethelstan: Will we be forgiven? Our sin weighs heavy.
Ingilmundr: Yes, it does. But remember, God holds us in the balance. Every sin can be weighed against an act of faith. Grow the faith and the sin is diminished.
Aethelstan: What if the shadow of sin obscures the faith?

 

'All regret is worthless.' - Uhtred (Seven Kings Must Die) Click To Tweet

 

Ingilmundr: [to Aethelstan] Go beyond what Alfred dreamed of. Look to the islands God made, not the countries ordained by men, and bring all to Christianity. So when you are judged, you will be found in balance. And thus may accept both the sin, and the conquest against it.


 

Uhtred: Why is Aethelstan doing this?
Pyrlig: He says to unite Christians. And in his prayers, he talks much of atonement.
Uhtred: Atonement? For what?
Pyrlig: The death of his brother. The b****rdy of his parentage? I do not know.


 

Uhtred: You should not have stepped on my land.
Aethelstan: You should not have broken your word, humiliated me, as you humiliated my father.
Uhtred: I’m trying to make you see you’re on the wrong path.


 

Uhtred: [referring to Ingilmundr] Aethelstan, hump who you wish, but do not fall under the influence of those who seek power.

 

'Only fools try to understand destiny.' - Ingilmundr (Seven Kings Must Die) Click To Tweet

 

Uhtred: Aethelstan, you are a kind man, but you are tenderhearted, and Ingilmundr is seeking power for himself and for his brotherhood.
Aethelstan: Lies. Lies and ignominy.
Uhtred: There’s no ignominy. He just turns you from your kin.
Aethelstan: And you are turned from your king! You seek to be one yourself.


 

Aethelstan: Let us leave the King of Northumbria to think on his errors.
Uhtred: I have no dream to be a king. Only to protect you.
Ingilmundr: Like you ran to protect him in Aegelesburg and ended up being beaten by boys? Should he really take counsel from a man who loses his sword to a child?
Aethelstan: Northumbria needs a lord with lust for battle.


 

Ingilmundr: As all fathers fall, and all sons take their place.

 

'A dream unites a people who once sought to kill each other. Without it, we go back into an age of darkness.' - Uhtred (Seven Kings Must Die) Click To Tweet

 

Aethelstan: [as he orders Aldehlm to be hanged] You turned your back, Aldhelm. Now I turn mine.


 

Uhtred: [to Ingilmundr] Whatever power you hold over Aethelstan, today it ends.


 

Anlaf: Aethelstan turns against his friends. Succumbs to a wild dream to be a monarch for all your land. In time, he will come for you, Shetland. You, Orkney. He will take what belonged to your forebears and call it Britain.


 

Anlaf: War is coming. You only have to choose a side.

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Finan: [as they’re surrounded by soldiers] We’ve been lured here.
Sihtric: You think?


 

Ingilmundr: Did you hump the heathen, Lady? Confess.
Queen Eadgifu: I confess to have prayed for your excruciating death.


 

Uhtred: Am I to be drowned in the sea?
Ingilmundr: I never quite know his mind.
Uhtred: Do not punish those in Bebbanburg. His fight is with me.
Ingilmundr: His fight is elsewhere.


 

Uhtred: Do not invade Scotland. You will lose hundreds of men.
Queen Eadgifu: And unleash a war for generations.
Ingilmundr: The king has no successor to fear for. It makes him strong.


 

Queen Eadgifu: [to Uhtred] Do whatever you must to protect our sons. Do not fight him. Just capitulate. Anything else is foolish.


 

Uhtred: Aldhelm never betrayed you.
Aethelstan: All of you betrayed me. All those I thought as friends.


 

Aethelstan: [to Uhtred] I banish you from my lands to travel the earth and seas alone. On pain of murder of your son. Let none feed or clothe him, lest become my enemy. Go. Before this mercy vanishes.


 

Hywel: Your men do not want this fight.
Aethelstan: Well, perhaps I need better men.


 

Uhtred: How did you find me? Who’s your spy?
Anlaf: We have many spies. We know many things.


 

Uhtred: We Northumbrians also have a prophecy. “Seven kings must die”.
Anlaf: That holds no fear.
Constantin: Each man here has a son to take his place.
Owain: Seven kings die, seven will, in that moment, be made.


 

Constantin: Then there is another way to consider. If you wish to save many from bloodshed.
Owain: Kill one man only. Kill the king who has attacked us all.
Constantin: Return to him in supplication. Seize the moment. Save many lives by simply taking one.
Anlaf: The alternative, of course, is war. Seven kings against one.


 

Ingilmundr: You let Uhtred go free. Why?
Anlaf: I sent him away, to kill your friend, the king.
Ingilmundr: Well, he will be killed in the attempt.
Astrid: Uhtred has skills you do not.


 

Uhtred: [after he’s told Aethelstan of Ingilmundr’s betrayal] Your lands will be overrun.
Aethelstan: No! You lie! This is all lies!


 

Sihtric: We search every forest, every valley.
Finan: And here he is, back in the lap of luxury. We heard you needed us.
Uhtred: Truly the gods smiled at me to give me such friends.


 

Uhtred: We are broken. We have no allies. We’re lost.
Queen Eadgifu: Then we must find the courage to defend Northumbria from their return.


 

Ingilmundr: Those of you with swords to your throats face a decision. A thousand ships are heading towards these shores. Some have already landed. Within a week, Saxon boroughs will be overrun. Join us and fight the tyrant Aethelstan, or die.


 

Uhtred: All the warrior kings that I’ve known, Ubba, Cnut, Bloodhair, all have faced defeat in the end and have taken others with them.
Sihtric: The fight was always coming, Lord. No warrior dies a peaceful death.


 

Finan: [to Uhtred] “Seven kings must die”. We have hope. In your heart, you never wanted to be a king.


 

Uhtred: They come Viking now to extinguish an idea of England. A dream unites a people who once sought to kill each other. Without it, we go back into an age of darkness.


 

Queen Eadgifu: We have both lost so much. But I ask myself, am I alive? Can you feel it?
Uhtred: You are alive.
Queen Eadgifu: So are you. So we have hope.


 

Aethelstan: I’ve not been myself this past year, and truly, truly, I pay for my sins. I face a great alliance at Brunanburh.
Uhtred: All regret is worthless. Let us speak only of the fight to come.


 

Aethelstan: I do not want you to fight for me, Uhtred.
Uhtred: Trust I’m on your side.
Aethelstan: I know that. Save yourself. Take your son to safety. If I do not survive the battle, then succession will be secure.
Uhtred: You cannot fight this alliance alone.
Aethelstan: Yet I forbid you from taking part.


 

Uhtred: Let us serve you. Aethelstan. This is not a punishment.
Aethelstan: I think we both know that it is.


 

Queen Eadgifu: God is telling us to get to safety.
Uhtred: Your god does not speak to me.
Queen Eadgifu: It is not cowardly to spurn a battle that cannot be won.
Edmund: It is. However this prevails, I will have to know I walked away from danger.
Queen Eadgifu: Your battles will come when you become king.
Edmund: King of where, Mother?


 

Uhtred: Pyrlig, you once told me that it was my destiny to save England.
Pyrlig: Hadn’t seen it quite like this, but then I’m not one for prophecies.


 

Queen Eadgifu: What if your destiny is to protect Edmund? Perhaps he is the one to unite England. He could be the king who was worthy.
Uhtred: No king will form England. This is what I see now. Not Edmund, or Edward, or Alfred. Not even Aethelstan.


 

Uhtred: Alfred’s dream was of a united people. And with these men, from all parts, I fought for it. What if our destiny was not to form England, but to form the English as one force?
Pyrlig: Who better than a half Saxon, half Dane to lead men from divided places?
Uhtred: We go!
Finan: I don’t have to call myself English, do I?


 

Uhtred: We’ll aim for their left side.
Edmund: Why? Why the left?
Finan: Weaker. Most men fight with the sword in their right hand.
Pyrlig: I’ve fought with Uhtred many times. Trust he will find a way.


 

Uhtred: [to the soldiers] I am no commander of yours. I have no authority other than being a man who has fought in many battles. Some of you I have led before. Today I stand with you as a simple soldier. But I ask that, on the field, you once again let me guide you. Our position on the hill is weak, but the trees to our left give us an advantage the enemy will not see. We can defeat them if we stay united.


 

Finan: [as they stand side by side with the soldiers] This is one way to clear the ale.
Sihtric: Smell of a thousand armpits.
Finan: Aye. Maybe they smelled us and ran away.
Sihtric: Maybe.
Finan: Who touched my a**?


 

Finan: Do you think this will work?
Sihtric: If it does not, we will not be here to see it.


 

Pyrlig: [as the battle is about to begin] I thank God, who I serve with pure conscience. God hath not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and of sound mind!


 

Aethelstan: Was any of it real? Tell me the truth. When you find yourself before God, you will have confessed.
Ingilmundr: I grew fond of you. But my love for my people prevailed.
Aethelstan: I chose you over my people.
Ingilmundr: Perhaps my gods are stronger than yours.
Aethelstan: Then why am I living and you about to die?
Ingilmundr: Only fools try to understand destiny.


 

Queen Eadgifu: [as Uhtred joins them from recovering from his wounds] There is so much future. Stay with us, Uhtred.
Uhtred: What of the enemy?
Finan: The victory is ours.


 

Aethelstan: Five sons of kings lay dead upon the battlefield. Five kings that will never be crowned.
Finan: “Seven kings must die”. The prophecy was wrong, Lord.
Uhtred: With Edward of Wessex, it makes six. Am I to be the seventh?


 

Aethelstan: I have told the chroniclers to write of your victory, Uhtred.
Uhtred: I have no wish to be written into your history. I want only to be honored in the feast hall for standing by an oath.
Aethelstan: Uhtred, you did not just stand by me. You stood for me. You led where I could not. And you forgave me when I was unforgivable. You saved the hope of England. Now in time, it may yet happen.


 

Uhtred: [to Aethelstan] I said that, if you proved yourself to be the rightful king, I would swear Northumbria to you. Men have died fighting under the name of the English. To honor them, England should be formed. But I have one condition. You must make an oath never to marry. No heirs. So your brother Edmund can take the throne unchallenged.


 

Aethelstan: This oath I shall swear.
Uhtred: Then we submit to you as our king. Which makes you ruler of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, and Northumbria.
Aethelstan: And I call my lands England.


 

Uhtred: Do not grieve for me. It was always written that I would fall in battle.
Finan: You’re not going to die, Lord. I would go first, and I’m still alive, so.
Uhtred: So, destiny is all.
[Uhtred then turns to see a vision of Valhalla where his fallen friends are celebrating, inviting him to the next life]


 

Finan: [as we see Uhtred torn between the land of the living and afterlife] Did seven kings die? The chronicles do not record if my lord Uhtred survived. But those like me, who knew him, recognize him as the greatest warrior of our age, and a man who made a kingdom.

 


 

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