When Game of Thrones premiered on HBO in 2011, it was unlike anything TV audiences had ever seen. Not long after Game of Thrones had become a phenomenon, a British show called The Last Kingdom went into production. Game of Thrones is loosely inspired by, among other things, the War of the Roses, which took place in 15th-century England between the Yorks and the Lancasters. Like a combination of Jon Snow and Theon Greyjoy, the protagonist of The Last Kingdom — Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon) — is a man torn between two worlds. Like Game of Thrones, The Last Kingdom has its fair share of strong female characters whose lives intersect with Uhtred's.