Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
The (series?) finale of Kurt Sutter's The Bastard Executioner may have been entirely too convenient, but it did wrap the 10-episode run in a way that should give closure to those of us who stuck it out until the bloody end. Tuesday's finale, "Blood And Quiescence/Crau A Chwsg" spent a good 40-odd minutes building up to what was meant to be the show's last bloody battle, roughly eight minutes actually in battle, then another 10 minutes wrapping it all up. And therein lay the problem with the series from the beginning.
The finale, much like most of the other episodes in the set, featured a lot of exposition and set-up, with very little pay off. Still, it all wrapped with a pretty little bow and that's all you can ask of a finale when the future of a show is in question. Annora and The Silent Mute (who turned out to be not-so-silent in the end), finally revealed the Da Vinci's Code like truth to Wilkin, that they were hiding ancient scripts that could put the entire church in jeopardy. It was a reveal that set the entire episode's events in motion, as Wilkin, Love and Milus then plotted to save the boy and the priest, therefore saving Annora and the scripts in the process.
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The (series?) finale of Kurt Sutter's The Bastard Executioner may have been entirely too convenient, but it did wrap the 10-episode run in a way that should give closure to those of us who stuck it out until the bloody end. Tuesday's finale, "Blood And Quiescence/Crau A Chwsg" spent a good 40-odd minutes building up to what was meant to be the show's last bloody battle, roughly eight minutes actually in battle, then another 10 minutes wrapping it all up. And therein lay the problem with the series from the beginning.
The finale, much like most of the other episodes in the set, featured a lot of exposition and set-up, with very little pay off. Still, it all wrapped with a pretty little bow and that's all you can ask of a finale when the future of a show is in question. Annora and The Silent Mute (who turned out to be not-so-silent in the end), finally revealed the Da Vinci's Code like truth to Wilkin, that they were hiding ancient scripts that could put the entire church in jeopardy. It was a reveal that set the entire episode's events in motion, as Wilkin, Love and Milus then plotted to save the boy and the priest, therefore saving Annora and the scripts in the process.
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