The Bastard Executioner

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Season 1
  • Network: FX
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 15, 2015
User Score
6.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 92 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 52 out of 92
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 92
  3. Negative: 24 out of 92
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  1. jeremyp
    Sep 24, 2015
    5
    I always approach a Sutter series with an " open with care" attitude. His characters are edgy and loose with their morals but strong with their tribal values. This one is a jump for him. Instead of showing modern day humans acting medievally he takes us back to where his vision probably took root. Plenty violent, and Kate Sagal as not just **** but witchy. I'm guessing that creature sheI always approach a Sutter series with an " open with care" attitude. His characters are edgy and loose with their morals but strong with their tribal values. This one is a jump for him. Instead of showing modern day humans acting medievally he takes us back to where his vision probably took root. Plenty violent, and Kate Sagal as not just **** but witchy. I'm guessing that creature she cohabits with is Sutter. It's Game Of Thrones for the country western crowd.… Expand
  2. Skeletor71
    Sep 21, 2015
    6
    I had high hopes for this, but it was really disappointing. Come for the blood and gore, stay for the ... nothing really. It's full of your basic medieval fantasy stuff and most of the characters are just boring. Katey Sagal is just cringeworthy in her fake German accent. I'll give it one more episode, because I feel like I owe it to Kurt Sutter, but if it doesn't improve I'm done.
  3. RWilli
    Nov 1, 2015
    5
    The first hour of the first episode was almost impossible to sit through. In fact, if it were not for having guests to watch the first episode I would not have continued watching it. Fortunately, things really livened up after the first hour. Unfortunately, ever eposide since has been just as inconsistent. At times I think that it is really good, other times I think it is unwatchable.

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#58 Most Discussed TV Season of 2015
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#81 Most Shared TV Season of 2015

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
55

Mixed or average reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 38
  3. Negative: 2 out of 38
  1. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Spencer Kornhaber
    Sep 25, 2015
    40
    The Bastard Executioner feels a bit more like people playing dress up than the best works in its genre should. The only characters to not fall into cliched dichotomies of rag-tag rebels and power-mad gentry are the women--a mystic of unclear purpose and unclear accent, played by Katey Sagal, and a demure but calculating baroness, played with quiet intelligence by Flora Spencer-Longhurst. Outside of them, the intrigue factor is low.
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  2. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Sep 17, 2015
    40
    This is one pretentious Bastard. [21-27 Sept 2015, p.17]
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Sep 16, 2015
    75
    The double-episode premiere drags like it has all the time in the world, leaving a viewer time to wonder if he or she has much room left for another show with swords, beheadings and rapey pillagings. But Sutter is skilled at balancing emotion and gore, and it isn’t long before you start to believe in this place and these people.
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