Watched the pilot of The Bastard Executioner last night. It was two hours long. The first hour you're trying to piece together everything that is going on as there are a LOT of characters introduced. In the middle of the pilot things really ramp up and get brutal. Things started clicking for me from that point on as we see the point of what is going on. Overall I was pretty impressed with the pilot and definitely going to keep going with it. But that's no surprise for anything that Kurt Sutter has his hands on.

http://www.ew.com/recap/the-bastard-...ioner-premiere

That EW article helped in filling in some holes and answering some questions.