Sons of Anarchy
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| Sons Patch |
The show is quite violent it features a lot of killing, physical violence and sex scenes. The show mainly follows Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam) and his immediate family.
With 7 seasons made it is an eventful and long series, with a lot of death and action involved, if you enjoy an action packed show then this is for you although prepare for upset if your get attached to characters within a show.
The first 3 seasons really pull you into the show, I watched them in a short time and then paced myself over the next 4 seasons. The first 3 seasons really set the pace for the show and gives you a solid idea of what its all about, I personally enjoyed seasons 1-3 the best, don't get me wrong the later seasons are still good but it was just my personal preference.
Seasons 1-3
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| Jackson Teller |
Jax Teller has a premature child to his ex-wife who is a drug addict, when this happens he stumbles upon something of great significance to his dead father who used to lead his beloved motorcycle club, this creates a lot of inner thought, pain and confusion for Jax which later fuels feuds with other gang members.
The acting from Charlie Hunnam is really good, you may already know him from the original Green Street film. He really sets the show for you and you begin to like his character more each episode.
Jacksons mother - Gemma (Katey Sagal) is crazy and threatens to kill Wendy (Jacksons ex-wife) if she tries to see her own new-born child, this is typical behaviour for Gemma and you will see this throughout she really adds an extreme parental paranoia to the show which creates a great viewing!
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| SAMCRO moving out on the beloved Motorcycles. |
With the second season seeing a new group come to the town, its creates tensions within the group and makes them uneasy and the new arrivals called LOAN (League of American Nationalists) seeking to rid the town of the motorcycle club. The LOAN group are basically white supremists and cause a lot of problems in the town shortly after their arrival causing some of SAMCRO's members (the motorcycle club) to get arrested and spend time in the cells.
Within each season major problems unravel and create an exciting viewing, usually in conflict over guns, money and rival gangs. The lifestyle that they live is like the stereotypical outlaw - constant drinking, fighting, drug abusing and plenty of women one thing I found interesting is that they were allowed to cheat on their "old lady" which was basically the guys girlfriends on wives and they allowed them to have other women at there own will. This is really shown in the first couple
seasons when its constant to give you an idea of how they live, the parties they have are crazy.
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| Clay (Ron Perlman) & Jax (Charlie Hunnam) |
With season 3 the law enforcement really impacts the club and tries to make backhand deals with them to meet each others terms, Jax's son has been kidnapped and SAMCRO are looking everywhere to find who done it. They end up in Ireland visiting the Irish branch of SAMCRO, where the IRA (Irish Republican Army) have a strong foothold and they run the gun running in the area they cross paths. Some of the gang get hauled away to Jail for a short term due to a bad deal going sour.
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| Season 3 (Part of the Gang) |
The club has its own ranking and authority system with the top being President, Vice President, Sgt. at arms etc.. it creates authority and jobs within the club to bring some order throughout the outlaw group.
Without giving away too much of the show, I would say it is really good and very enjoyable to the viewer, I would recommend watching if when you have the time. 7 seasons does seem a bit daunting to start with but it really is worth the watching as the show is highly reviewed and has won many awards!
Constant violence, gun fights, murder, alcohol and drug fuelled partying must be fun to watch right?
My personal favourite character is Chibbs (Tommy Flanagan) who is Scottish, having a strong Glaswegian accent in the middle of all the American accents really enforces his character and makes you enjoy what he says as its so unusual to have a Scotsman in a big hit American TV show. Throughout the seasons he is well known for saying "Jackie boy" to call Jax and you really appreciate the home comforts of the accent in the show I would consider it a unique strategic USP from FX.
loved this series and i've started watching it again after reading this
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