FX's The Bastard Executioner - From SOA's Kurt Sutter

[Golgo-13]

The finale is coming up; i've braved it this long, may as well see it though to the end.....

 

[Marz69]

Keep coming back to this like an old crack habit!

Recap:

The two sexy twin sisters' cover has been blown; one was tortured to death using the 'Judas craddle' device (gross!), and the other while trying to escape was chopped to bits, by none other than that little blonde guy, whose one of Maddox's friends; the one who likes goats. It was bizarre, but i believe it was for revenge for the twins aiding in 'vampire bill' beating one of their friends to death in an earlier ep. Also, their uppity French cousin (the one the twins were spying for) is dead.

The Baroness and Maddox are hot and heavy, and are secretly meeting to kiss and cuddle; no sex yet.

The stuff with Katey Segals character is getting good; apparently she's a decendant of some of the soldiers who cruxified Christ, and were charged with guarding his true writings. Also, she's Maddox's Mother….me thinks!

Thanks for the recap. This story line actually sounds like it could have had promise if done better instead of going in the direction they did.

Kurt Sutter Cancels 'The Bastard Executioner' Via Hollywood Reporter Ad

"I don’t want to write something that nobody's f—ing watching," Sutter says of the decision to pull the plug on the FX period drama.

It's a shame it didn't work out. I wanted to like it, but I just couldn't bare it. Horrible show. For me, the show failed to get me to care or find interest in the main characters. Sutter seemed more interested in setting the tone.

 

[Golgo-13]

I think the lead is the biggest issue. He makes you want to slit your own wrists while watching him. If he was more likable like Ragnar from Vikings or Spartacus from the Starz show, this might have kept it's viewers.

 

[Golgo-13]

For those interested, a recap on the finale:

It was 90 minutes.

It's revealled that Katey Segals character is not a descendant of the soldiers that killed Christ, but a descendant of Christ himself.

It was a little ambiguous, but Maddox (the lead) may be her son and then too is a decendant of Christ.

The Vision the lead had during the pilot is suppose to be the child he and the Baroness are destined to have. In the closing scene, they finally have sex.

There's a big battle where the Church people (who are hunting down Katey Segal' character and the burnt man she's with) battle with the lead and co; the church people who don't want Christs true writings revealed are defeated.

The Baroness' handmaiden and 'Vampire Bill' go off and supposedly have sex.

Since this is cancelled, my only complaint is that they didn't reveal why the leads wife and unborn child was killed during the pilot. I assume it has something to do with the holy child he and the baroness are supposed to have.

 

[Drz]

I binge watched the last 3 episodes like it was one big movie. I really enjoyed this show's setting, but I don't mind the show being cancelled, it told a fun simple story about religion, peasants, knights and politics.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

The lead actor had zero personality, Katey Sagal was badly miscast and the show seemed to be spinning it's wheels right from the first episode. What a waste. I haven't watched the last ep but it hardly seems to matter now.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Obviously late to the party, but if what I'm reading is right, Sutter was actually actively involved in the decision to cancel the show. You know something just wasn't going well when the show runner and creator actually goes out to cancel a show. I wonder what went so wrong with this show.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

now that TBE has bitten the dust (and rightly so), maybe Sutter can now get to work on some form of a Sons of Anarchy spinoff and redeem himself... fingers crossed...

 

[Tron Bonne]

There's already a SOA spin-off in the works, though I think Sutter plans to hand it off to someone else and not be involved past a producer role. Though after this flop, it's hard to say what will happen, he may be hands-on with it after all, at least in the beginning.

 

[Man in the Suit]

Obviously late to the party, but if what I'm reading is right, Sutter was actually actively involved in the decision to cancel the show. You know something just wasn't going well when the show runner and creator actually goes out to cancel a show. I wonder what went so wrong with this show.

I don't believe he had anything to do with it because he's not the money man. This came from John Landgraf at FX or someone in that circle. The quality wasn't there, critics hated it, nobody watched. Sutter just made everyone think he cancelled it because he's a drama queen and took an ad out in the Hollywood trades.

 

[Tron Bonne]

I don't believe he had anything to do with it because he's not the money man. This came from John Landgraf at FX or someone in that circle. The quality wasn't there, critics hated it, nobody watched. Sutter just made everyone think he cancelled it because he's a drama queen and took an ad out in the Hollywood trades.

Well yeah, that's possible too.

 

[Drz]

Obviously late to the party, but if what I'm reading is right, Sutter was actually actively involved in the decision to cancel the show. You know something just wasn't going well when the show runner and creator actually goes out to cancel a show. I wonder what went so wrong with this show.

He said he didn't care to make a show that noone was watching.

 

[James]

I hope his next project is successful. Sutter has a lot of talent, The Bastard Executioner doesn't seem to have been his forte. I think he'd do well to pick his actors more carefully next time too, particularly the lead.

 

[Drz]

I just hope Bill the Vampire will be on whatever Sutter comes up next.