(Author’s note: sorry I haven’t been reviewing this lately. Without cable, access to this show has been hard to get, doubly so since FX doesn’t put it on Hulu. But now I have the...

Kurt Sutter wasted no time indulging his baser instincts with The Bastard Executioner. Graphic torture? Check. Needlessly complicated schemes? Check. Overlong running time? Check. Unwarranted Gaelic in the episode title? Better believe that’s a check. Man,...

(Author’s note: sorry this is going up late. I’m gonna level with you, I blew out my back yesterday and didn’t feel up to writing a review. Plus, I already wrote two reviews of...

It’s easy to look at the promos for The Bastard Executioner and assume that it will be Game of Thrones by way of Sons of Anarchy – that is, none of the mysticism or subtlety of the former, but...