Characters get closer and The Bastard Executioner is all the better for it.
Here’s our review of The Bastard Executioner Season 1 Episode 5.
This The Bastard Executioner review contains spoilers.
The Bastard ExecutionerSeason 1, Episode 5.
Lets start with the negative and the obvious.
Episodes ofThe Bastard Executionerare still punishingly, pointlessly long.
Theres no need for 55+ minute-long episodes of a show that doesnt have much to do or say.
The episodes should still be shorter.
Having said that Piss Profit/Proffidwyr Troeth* is the best showing forExecutionerthus far.
Thtas what Google is for.
So far, however, everyone has gone about this differently.
Lady Love fakes a pregnancy and bats her beautiful doe-like eyes.
Wil swings his sword at things.
And Milus is being devious because someone in a Medieval castle has to be.
Starting with the most overt: Annora and Lady Love.
Of course, Lady Love is not pregnant so she seeks out Sir Gawains healer friend.
Its a nice scene of necessary trust building and it solves a critical problem for Love.
The elixir Annora gives her works and fools the Piss Prophet into declaring she is pregnant.
Annora and Lady Love bro status = confirmed.
Loves success with Wil/Gawains trusted healer also helps bring together Love and the titual bastard executioner.
Plot-wise, Wil and Love need a reason to trust each other.
Theyre the innocents of this story as well as the moral core.
Gawains recommendation of a healer saves Loves life and now she has every reason to trust him.
Trust him enough to impregnate her as well, it would seem.
She knows Sir Gawain is at least a decent person and…not unattractive.
In short: Wil and Love bro status = confirmed.
Then theres the most turbulent and interesting relationship in the episode: Milus and Wil.
Somehow, I did not see Milus master plan to eliminate Baron Pryces wife coming.
He dispatches them to destroy a sacred Bible en route to Baron Pryce from the king.
If Baron Pryce gets said Bible, his shire will be far too influential or some nonsense.
Wil and Toran complete their mission but not before discovering Milus trick.
Its too late, however, as Baronness Pryce is burned to death.
Wil then returns to the shire and beats Milus to a pulp.
Instead, Gaveston insults him rather viciously.
OnThe Bastard Executionertheres some banging-ass brunettes.
Episodes 1-4 have provedThe Bastard Executionercant do petty squabbling well.
Now it has the chance to do everybody bro-ing out well.
Still, not everyone can get along in Ventrishire.
Rating:
3.5 out of 5
