The Bastard Executioner

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    Kurt Sutter Talks What Would've Happened Next on 'The Bastard Executioner'

    Kurt Sutter has already explained his decision to not move forward with another season of The Bastard Executioner, which FX seconded, in interviews with The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline. I always envisioned that love to be consummated in the first season.

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    'The Bastard Executioner' Season Finale Recap: The 5 Most Satisfying Moments

    Update: Kurt Sutter has announced the show’s cancellation. There’s been no word on whether FX will move forward with a second season of The Bastard Executioner, but if it doesn’t, we, like Wilkin Brattle, have found peace. A series with so much carnage (even in this episode, as enemies banded together to defeat the Rosula and save Father Ruskin and Luca) ended with a love scene.

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    ‘The Bastard Executioner’ Season Finale Sneak Peek: Love and Milus Have a Heart-to-Heart

    Tonight, The Bastard Executioner airs its season finale with an episode that, according to Katey Sagal (whose Annora seemingly revealed herself to be Wilkin’s mother last week), will both answer questions and leave doors open for a possible renewal. Related: ‘The Bastard Executioner’ Recap: The Long Con In the exclusive clip above, we see that Lady Love (Flora Spencer-Longhurst) will ask Milus (Stephen Moyer) for help rescuing Father Ruskin and Luca from the Rosula. Love also informs Milus that

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    'The Bastard Executioner' Recap: The Long Con

    Warning: This recap for the “The Bernadette Maneuver/Cynllwyn Bernadette” episode of The Bastard Executioner contains spoilers. As was creator Kurt Sutter’s trademark on Sons of Anarchy, the penultimate episode of The Bastard Executioner’s season saw a lot go down. Some of it we called (Annora is Wilkin’s mother!). Some of it we didn’t (Ash is a murderer?!).

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    'The Bastard Executioner' Sneak Peek: Love Lays Down the Law for Jessamy

    With just two episodes remaining in Season 1 of The Bastard Executioner, things couldn’t be more tense. Wilkin and Toran have joined Milus on a quest to capture banished Gaveston with the remaining giggle wench/half-sister in tow as a hostage (if they’re successful, it could secure Ventrishire for Lady Love); Father Ruskin and Luca have been kidnapped by the Rosula, who are determined to find Annora; and Jessamy is being held prisoner in Isabel’s quarters after catching Wilkin and Love sharing a

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    'The Bastard Executioner' Postmortem: Katey Sagal On the Mystery and Faith of Annora

    Spoiler alert! If you haven’t watched this week’s episode of The Bastard Executioner, “Broken Things/Pethau Toredig" written by Ryan Scott and creator Kurt Sutter and directed by Ciaran Donnelly, stop reading now. Katey Sagal, who’s back Stateside after wrapping Season 1 in Wales, spoke to Yahoo TV about Annora’s vague ways, the fun of starring in a show with daughter Sarah White (Isabel), and what she’d like to see in the Sons of Anarchy attraction at that Fox theme park in Dubai. Related: ‘T

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    'The Bastard Executioner' Recap: Broken Things

    The truth continued to pour out in this week’s episode of The Bastard Executioner, with Lady Love admitting to Wilkin that she’s not pregnant and Jessamy discovering Love and Wilkin kissing. Annora also opened up to Father Ruskin, and then he and Lucca got kidnapped by the Archdeacon’s men. Where was Wilkin? Poor Jessamy: We all know Wilkin only slept with her because he wanted to be nice and thought he’d never see her again, but Jessamy doesn’t.