Believe it or not, it's your trusted spy's birthday today and
Netflix has decided to congratulate me by releasing a rather spectacular trailer for the fourth, long awaited, season of our favourite epic TV series
THE LAST KINGDOM which will stream with its eight new episodes from April 26th
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| The new season starts streaming on Netflix from April 26th |
and will, I'm quite sure, cheer you up a bit during the dark quarantine hours the whole world has been put in. The series, which is set in the ninth century when many of the separate kingdoms of England have fallen to the invading
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| Alexander Dreymon returns as brave and trustworthy Uhtred |
Vikings, with only the great kingdom of Wessex left standing and defiant under the command of King Alfred the Great, will again have the cast led by amazing
Alexander Dreymon and
Mark Rowley and
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| Eliza Butterworth and Timothy Innes will again rule Wessex |
Fedaravicius as his brave sidekicks, alongside
Timothy Innes as the new king,
Toby Regbo, Joseph Millson,
Millie Brady, Ian Hart, Emily Cox,
Eliza Butterworth, Magnus Bruun, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Adrian Schiller, Cavan Clerkin, James Northcote, Eva Birthistle, with new additions in
Stefanie Martini and
Jamie Blackley. In The Epic Season Four after the death of Alfred, the alliances between the kingdoms are fractured. The new King, Edward, is intent on isolating Wessex and strengthening his
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| Mark Rowley and Arnas Fedaravicius return as Finan and Sythric |
reinforcements against possible Dane incursions, while Lord Aethelred of Mercia makes ambitious plans to establish himself as a rival to Wessex. When
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| Jamie Blackley is Aethelred's new right hand |
Northumbria also faces hostility, Uhtred believes the timing is right to challenge his uncle Aelfric to take back his ancestral home, Bebbanburg. But fate shifts in a different direction; news comes that Mercia is in turmoil, and
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| Stefanie Martini is Aethelred's new love interest Eadith |
Uhtred’s affection for Aethelflaed drives him back into the politics that threaten to break out into war. And just as it seems peace can be found between the Saxons, a new and unprecedented Dane enemy takes them by
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| Stefanie Martini and Jamie Blackley join the cast in the new season |
surprise. Uhtred begins to realise that his destiny is tied to Alfred’s dream and he becomes determined to resolve Saxon struggles before the possibility of England slips from their grasp forever.
