‘The Bastard Executioner’ Finale: Everything We Know [So Many Spoilers!]
The Bastard Executioner is at an end, something most fans of the show probably know by now. According to Time, show creator Kurt Sutter took it upon himself to cancel the show, which had declined in ratings from the first to the sixth episode. The first episode had four million viewers, but by the sixth episode, viewership had declined to 1.9 million. Sutter announced the cancellation by taking out an ad in the Hollywood Reporter. He also posted the content of the ad on Instagram.
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Yahoo! TV reports the top moments of the season (and series) finale with the first one being a backside shot of Wilkins when he climbed into bed with Love to try a little baby-making.
The next great thing about the finale of The Bastard Executioner is that Milus had a happy ending. Despite the fact that he had desired Love throughout the season, he made a pass at Isabel and it was accepted. How awesome is that?
Other than these, there were enemies united in the show, the burns on Dark Mute were explained (they came from the battlefield), and Robinus was killed. Cormac, played by the glorious Ed Sheeran, was also badly wounded, but we may never know his fate. According to Entertainment Weekly, a number of other things stood out in the finale.
“Father Ruskin was unmasked as a former assassin. Gaveston was outed as King Edward’s lover. Ash was revealed as a deranged serial killer (albeit one with The Worst Teeth in All of Wales™). And Annora quietly called Brattle ‘son,’ throwing her moral calculus — as the ultimate agent of his wife and unborn child’s murders — even further into the shadows.”
#LucaMaddox and #WilkinBrattle! What fate awaits them? I’m hoping Luca will be safe! #FatherRuskin watch over Luca! pic.twitter.com/2ZStgXoeAE
— Bastard Executioner (@BEAddicts) November 15, 2015
So, what does Kurt Sutter have to say about the season finale and where the show ended? Yahoo! TV reports that the direction of the show is different than he originally intended.
“I think what ended up happening was different than I had originally thought, not necessarily because I knew what our fate was, but as it tends to happen in the process, I have those goals and those mile markers but try to let the story unfold in an organic way. That’s always inspired by a lot of things. It’s inspired by the interpretation by the actors in their performance, by direction, all those things.”
As for the finale, the trailer for which can be seen below, he said he generally tends to resolve things and set up other things.
“I think my finales tend to resolve a lot of things and then ideally set up a lot of things… I guess because there tends to be a significant amount of resolution and things moving forward it probably a little more satisfying, or at least questions got answered. I guess I never really perceive anything I write as being ‘uplifting’ [Laughs] but I’ll take it.”
Finally, Sutter reveals what would have happened with Wilkin and Love’s relationship had The Bastard Executioner continued on to a second season.
“I think we would have moved it forward. My plan for the end of this with a second season was to come back a little later with some time, and we actually do see her pregnant with Wilk’s baby. Then trying to figure out the mechanics and the science of that in terms of, ‘Do we say that it’s Ventris’s baby and it just took forever to ferment?'”
Now that The Bastard Executioner has come to an untimely end, what comes next for Kurt Sutter? Next on the cards may well be the Sons of Anarchy spinoff show involving the Mayans motorcycle group.
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