HD The Bastard Executioner Gets Lost In Its Hazy Themes, The Bastard Executioner Introduces a Sense of Intrigue Not a Moment Too Soon, The Bastard Executioner Works Better As 14th-Century House of Cards, The Bastard Executioner: A Simplification Is In Order, The Bastard Executioner Series Premiere Review, Fall TV 2015 Premiere Dates: New & Returning Shows to Watch, 'The Bastard Executioner' Featurette Offers Plot & Character Details, 'The Bastard Executioner' Teasers: Kurt Sutter's New Historical Drama, Ed Sheeran Joins the Cast of FX's 'The Bastard Executioner', Kurt Sutter's 'The Bastard Executioner' Gets First Trailer From FX, Every DC & Justice League Character Teased By The Batman Set Photos, 90 Day Fiancé: Why Fans Attacking Deavan’s Daughter Drascilla Is Gross. Season 1, Episode 4 TV-MA The Bastard Executioner has some witches and fantastical elements, but it is historical fiction that includes events and a few characters that you may have studied in school. Among them: “Peaky Blinders,” “Happy Valley,” “The Americans,” “The Returned,” “True Detective” Season 1, “Penny Dreadful,” “Borgen,” “Homeland,” “The Man in the High Castle,” O.G. Philip meets with Alicia, who tells him she wants to marry him. FX has revealed more footage and information on 'The Bastard Executioner', the upcoming period drama by Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy). One unfortunate byproduct of the age of Peak TV is that we’re enduring the Rise of the Slog. The Duke began an affair with Marie when she was performing on stage in Paris, but he never married her, making Philippe illegitimate. CC HD But when that violence finds him again, he is forced to pick up the bloodiest sword of all. Today is National Voter Registration Day! Each state has its own rules for mail-in absentee voting. CC Back at Castle Ventris, Milus and company welcome a visit from Baron Pryce. 3.8 out of 5 stars 466. It’s become a bit of a slog. SD. More than ever, it needs to make them count. Season 1, Episode 3 TV-MA I can think of dozens of drama pilots from the last few years where my interest has been piqued right off the bat. Even though I must gird myself to watch it, “Hannibal's” atmosphere of mournful, elegant dread is entirely addictive, and even pulpier fare like “Spartacus,” “Penny Dreadful,” “Peaky Blinders” and “Vikings” have used grotesque and horrendous moments exceptionally well. HD Even if a show’s subject matter is dark and troubling, the drama itself should not feel like homework that sets up future homework assignments. When that violence finds him again, he is forced to pick up the bloodiest sword of all, the Executioners sword. I opined on some of the reasons behind the Rise of the Slog recently, so I won’t flog that dead horse (an act of violence mercifully left out of “The Bastard Executioner”). My Hero Academia: Uraraka vs. 'The Bastard Executioner' And The Rise Of The Slog. Knock it out over a long weekend and fill the void with any of the dozens of TV shows and films these youngsters eventually starred in. Convinced that his claim to Kentland will never be validated, Philippe decides to take Solomon's advice and learn the trade. Having kept it a secret from him for years, she finally tells him his father was James Amberly, the 6th Duke of Kent. During their transatlantic journey, Marie, heartbroken, dies of dysentery and is buried at sea, and Philippe decides to adopt an Anglicized version of his name, renaming himself Philip Kent. All rights reserved. “The Bastard Executioner” has some of the best assets of “Sons of Anarchy,” including the veteran director Paris Barclay. But every book should make a reader want to keep turning the pages, just as every drama should set hooks that keep people coming back. There’s no question that violence has a place in popular culture, even if, at this moment in television’s history, graphic depictions of it occasionally come close to drowning out other kinds of other meditations on spiritual and political unrest. The answer is both yes and no. Season 1, Episode 9 TV-MA CC [1] The novel mixes fictional characters with historical events or people, to tell the story of the United States of America in the time period leading up to the American Revolution. Once I’d finished the first two episodes, Wilkins’ status as a man of secrets caught between the oppressed Welsh and the conquering English was no more interesting to me than before I’d sat down to watch. The studio has been the set of series including BBC’s Sherlock and FX’s The Bastard Executioner. Sometimes circumstances make it hard or impossible for you to vote on Election Day. Sons of Anarchy'nin yaratıcısı Kurt Sutter'ın yeni projesi The Bastard Executioner, 14. yüzyılda geçen bir savaşçı hikayesini anlatıyor. Season 1, Episode 10 TV-MA Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is making the leap into acting with a recurring role on Kurt Sutter's historical drama 'The Bastard Executioner'. We have both a magical healer and divine intervention that seems reminiscent of King Arthur legends and The Sword In The Stone. CC Red and Black - Incl. Between its first two installments, “The Bastard Executioner” had more than 170 commercial-free minutes to hook me, and it didn’t.