How is it compared to Vikings?

A step up from the later seasons, more on par with early Vikings.
There's still no one to match Ragnar or Ivar, but they have some good actors.

Its shite.

Not as good as early Vikings during Ragnar's story, but as good or better than the later Vikings.
Downside is, there is wokeness injected into the story; They had a colored woman as a leader of the Vikings in Kattegat. Woke absurdity has no bounds.