“Executioner” focuses on a gifted warrior named Wilkin Brattle (Lee Jones), who gets a visit on a bloody battlefield from a divine messenger who urges him to lay down his sword.

‘Bastard Executioner’s’ Kurt Sutter on His Troubled Past, C-Word Insults and New ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Spinoff "I'm a dark motherf—er," he says as he readies the medieval drama and unloads ...

Vladimir Andonov, 44, a purported member of President Vladimir Putin’s private army, the Wagner Group, was killed by a sniper near Kharkiv over the weekend.

Though Bastard Executioner isn’t yet, in the three hours made available to critics, a sprawling and complicatedly intricate story like Game of Thrones (a benefit, at this point, since that great ...

So even if the show wasn’t great, give “The Bastard Executioner” credit for being self-aware enough to see the writing on the wall, and recognize when it was time to pull the plug on itself.