If you weren't a fan of Kurt Sutter's exposition in some of Sons of Anarchy's longer episodes, you might have a tough time sitting through the two-hour pilot of his follow-up project, The Bastard Executioner, debuting Tuesday night.
Indeed, much of the first installment revolves around set-up. While that's a fair assessment of any pilot episode -- it's important to showcase all of the places a series can eventually go -- in this case it takes a lot longer to connect the pieces; especially when it looks as though none of those pieces will ever fit together.
That's in part due to the fact that Sutter spends a good portion of time digging into character background, and with so many characters to service it takes a lot of time to get to know each one. As a result, the audience cares more about a character when he or she is eventually killed off, but it also means that in a show with so much background, the audience tends to be exhausted by the time those deaths actually come.
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Indeed, much of the first installment revolves around set-up. While that's a fair assessment of any pilot episode -- it's important to showcase all of the places a series can eventually go -- in this case it takes a lot longer to connect the pieces; especially when it looks as though none of those pieces will ever fit together.
That's in part due to the fact that Sutter spends a good portion of time digging into character background, and with so many characters to service it takes a lot of time to get to know each one. As a result, the audience cares more about a character when he or she is eventually killed off, but it also means that in a show with so much background, the audience tends to be exhausted by the time those deaths actually come.
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