The Bastard Executioner: The Complete First Season

This is a great series... wish he'd had a chance to do season 2 ... FX messed-up ... but glad to have this DVD in my collection to enjoy with no commercials... if you want a detailed look at early England how life could've been with a great cast & storyline// excellent!! Vendor did a great job ... would use again... thx!

a well written medieval tale , good photography !

This was fantastic. No one knows of it. I loved how it started, and the extra plot line about the book of the nazarene and the inquisition like villains. A bit gory, GOT on steroids, but it all works with the story, and the plot. Seemed to wrap up at the end with no bitterness and no second season in mind. I so glad it was suggested via amazon.

I loved this show. Too bad was only 1 season. Don't leave in your cart overnight though, they jumped the price up by $6.00.

I'm sure that Mr. Sutter had to leave many stories in this series untold. A phenomenal tale, written & acted well beyond what we have become accustomed to on today's television... His decision to end it, while possibly justified by the hated ratings system, was a travesty. Long live Ventrishire...

I loved this show when it was on television!! So naturally it was a must to own this on DVD.

I tried to like this. I love midevil shows (and soa) but this one didn't keep my attention. While the forms of brutality was accurate I feel it was all over the place story wise and it takes quite a bit of time learning who everyone is.

IMO The pilot episode should only get 1 star, but it is unfortunately necessary for backstory. Gets better from episode 2-end of series. Took off 1 star for the unnecessary overabundance of gore and 1 star for the poor camera angles/filming. Close ups - way too close, filming of fight scenes too "chaotic"/hard to follow and the camera "bounce" was distracting (mainly in episode 1). Apparently the person filming the pilot and episode 1 had no concept of a tripod (at the very least), could not stand still and/or hold camera still in several scenes. Gives the impression of a very low budget production. Fight scenes were much too focused on gore instead of the art of swordplay. But it does improve starting with episode 2. The unnecessary gore is still present at times but to a somewhat lesser degree and the story line is allowed to "shine" a little more - so to speak. The acting/writing of the series are both good but the gore factor takes away from this series to a large degree. Without the negatives mentioned previously, I would have given this 5 stars.

Great series

To bad its the only season. Great series

outstanding

ok

The story line was good it was a bit slow at first but got better after each episode it’s a shame there will not be a season two as I think the second season would have been really good What spoilt my enjoyment was disc one and three kept stopping and starting the discs were not damaged and it wasn’t my dvd player