Shakespeare on a Hog: The Sons of Anarchy thread

Good show and worth watching. Start from the beginning. A few tweaks and this could've been on HBO

Huh. Just like last year, great build-up to the end, then suddenly it's disappointingly anticlimactic. Damn cliffhangers...

We're halfway through this and I really do love it. Also: lol @ Northern California. Funny because it's true :/

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/05/06/exclusive-stephen-king-to-appear-on-sons-of-anarchy/

Stephen King will make a special appearance on Sons of Anarchy when the biker drama returns for a third season on FX this September. King, who is a columnist for Entertainment Weekly, will play a quiet loner who appears in Gemma’s (Katey Sagal) time of need. The producers learned that King was a fan of the drama, so they reached out to the author for a possible cameo. King will appear in the third episode.

that should be awkward

This starts in like 15 minutes iirc.

Never saw the last two episodes of Season 2. Gonna jump in anyway.

Ok does anyone want to fill me in on what happened with Henry Rollins and his white pride cru.

Finally got around to watching the first episode of season 3. Good grief, once it gets dark they keep turning off more lights.

lol bachman cameo

Finished Season 1 finally, about to start S2...I'm glad I invested the time, this show is really fucking good.

also just finished s1 and excited to start s2. it's getting better and better as it goes along. i think clay is the most well-drawn character so far. jax as earnest dude with true love and gemma as mother hen who will do anything for family aren't quite as interesting to me. not yet anyway. katey sagal in particular is awesome though!

i hope they develop the anarchy part more. first emma goldman quote in a TV drama?

lol i didn't realize Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original Chapter = SAMCRO until i just checked wikipedia

my favorite show on tv.

Gemma's character gets much more depth in S2.

Have just started S3. Holy O_O

Also my crush on Opie is reaching unmanageable levels :D

my wife is in love with hunnam and his naked ass. me...not so much. I do love me a little Tara though.

why cant they show her ass once.

I liked s1 and loved s2 up until the finale. s3 has kinda lost me tbh, I watch every now and then but it doesn't seem as good to me as it used to.

yeah this season has been a bit of a let down for me so far.

Jax's ass = very good tv imo.

Tara's great, it was a little weird at first not thinking of her as Rachel Mencken from Mad Men

jax is hott for sure. do wish this was hbo

aw man... wish i saw tig when he was stanley in streetcar

Yeah I gotta say s3 has been a let down so far. But hoping it will pick up when the gang hits Ireland.

Looks like Tig played lead in Macbeth too? How cool would that be. Love that guy.

I love all those moments with Tig where he reveals all of his perversions. Like at the stables when he's petting the horse, or at the morgue with the dead body, and Clay's always "I don't wanna know"

Tig is one of my favorite characters. At first i did not find tara attractive at all, she grew on me.

Oh ms vegemite, wait until you see last weeks "ending". My wife broke out in sweats.

:D

I fell in love with Tara when her & Gemma shoot up the porn star's hybrid. That was when I knew she was my gal

its amazing how much ron perlman looks like a beast.

I think about that all the time, like "Hey he was Vincent"

And also I can easily imagine Hellboy as the leader of an outlaw motorcycle gang

this show has also pushed me closer to buying a harley. especially since they replay that godamn commercial where they advertise harleys for $8995.

Just put your kid up as collateral. (Then break through the wall on said Harley, steal your kid back and hit the road to live the dream.)

good idea.

I notice motorcycles a lot more now, and I find myself staring at bikers patches a lot

I've always wanted a motorbike in theory, but I'm such a klutz irl that this would be a very bad idea for me

IM SO CONFUSED BY SEASON 3. WTF IS THE DEAL WITH THE PRIEST AND JIMMY!

I'm two episodes behind, so it might be getting better, but I think spreading this to Belfast on top of Gemma going away is a problem.

Things are finally coming together, we finally get now who's on what side and so on. I love that they're so obviously trying to get Katey an Emmy. Lots of great delivery by Jax this episode, too... "My mother".

lol @ the Irish trad version of the opening theme song. a little hammy, sure, but far superior to the orig. imo

I never knew that the actress who plays Maureen (the Deadwood/Caprica chick, Paula Malcomson) was a for real Irish gal, born in Belfast and the whole thing.

finally figured out who the actress is that plays Chib's daughter:

http://thegreenloopblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/qorianka_the_new_world.jpg

it's weird to me to see someone on this thread say Gemma gets better in season 2, to me she was immediately the most compelling character on the show. man, the actors have to sell some stupid dialogue on this show sometimes, though -- like, saying "secret babies are a bad idea" with a straight face, jeez.

Well, it's a pretty hammy show so that dialogue kind of works. I seem to always be running 3 or 4 episodes behind. I just have no motivation to watch it week in, week out. At some point I'll get bored and catch up. I usually enjoy it when I do, but then come Tuesday I still can't be bothered.

this season is moving incredibly slowly, you're probably making the right decision. still, i'm enjoying it - not really sure how it stacks up vs. last year yet, i guess the finale will really decide it (so, probably lesser)

lol @ the Irish trad version of the opening theme song. a little hammy, sure, but far superior to the orig. imo

My husband would agree.

I had a biker come into our shop the other week. THE EXACT SAME FUCKING PATCHES. I mean of course not sons of anarchy or samcro on it, but same style. WTF. Alas he didn't look like Jax. Or maybe for the best or I'd have jumped him. hihi

I don't know, I really like this season as well, but it IS indeed going very slowly.

I loved how that woman from the hospital had a MAJOR TATTOO on her back. Can't wait to find out how that works out.

she was probably someones old lady at some point. i think she sees a bit of herself in Tara.

gonna wait for s3 to finish before watching so i can binge again.

it's weird to me to see someone on this thread say Gemma gets better in season 2, to me she was immediately the most compelling character on the show.

i thought the character and the old lady dynamic were compelling from the start, but she got much more depth in s2 - her fears, growing relationship with tara, etc.

everyone otm about hamminess. i can see it turning some people off. in the beginning i groaned, but it's part of the charm now for sure.

yeah it's totally part and parcel of the show, but there are always moments here and there (the "secret babies" line, the speeches in the s1 finale) where it gets too much for me. and yeah, i guess what Gemma went through in s2 was big as far as developing that character.

i'm only in the middle of the first season, but this run of events was pretty good:

1. SOA burn the back tattoo off their former member
2. katey segal picks up a nearby skateboard and wallops the girl who clay slept with in the face
3. girl says, 'who are you??? why did you do that to me????'
4. septic tank full of contraband guns is emptied out into the parking lot, SOA members wretching

i really had hope that the great pulpy storytelling side of the show would surface as it finished..but man…this episode was so bad. so boring.

the mayhem vote was actually a good scene and to then ruin it by having it be another wacky jax plan..and the last scene is just such a huge pileup of terrible writing and directing and editing and acting decisions.

it's always been clear that kurt sutter thinks that jax is a really cool guy and not a pathetic asshole but i wasn't expecting the full blown tongue bathing that goes on here…lol at jax draped in his jedi knight robes on the courthouse steps

introducing michael chiklis as a truck driver character who just happens to give gemma a ride, then happens to be driving along when jax needs a truck to ride into

kind of hoping he gets a spinoff series

zero-fat grownup macho Hunnam looks boring

they should have let Gemma get away with chiklis, then went ahead with the rest of the plot. But then at the moment when Jax crashes, he sees Gemma in the passenger seat. Capture both of their facial expressions and end the series.

The CGI at the end was hilariously bad, the rest of the episode was just bad.

i got tired of how bad they were at being criminals. i felt bad for them. i don't think they could have stolen a pack of gum without it ending in multiple deaths. i think i actually liked ireland the best. maybe i'll watch the last couple of seasons someday...

http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/bastard-executioner-finally-moves-dull-despicable-227865

this show sounds terrible but why should i be surprised? tbh even when i liked SOA at the beginning it was still a dumb and faintly despicable show too.

yep

I'm only at season 5 episode 4 so I haven't read any of this thread but geez Gemma is evil!

WOW! Tig lusting after Walter Goggins, I haven't laughed as much in awhile!

And still she steals my heart.

Fuck this show

haha where are you?

Just finished season 6, Tara was my hero. Feel bad about people, my decisions, but at this point I have to see it out.

oh yeaaaa

ugh

Tig just won my heart heart and might be the hero in this shitshow. How or why they decided to throw in this love story I have no idea, but in the midst of the murder, torture, sexism, and stubbornness I'm grateful there's an against all odds lay my soul bare love story. I still have 3 more episodes until the end, so they could just ruin it, but I hope not.

Haha that side story def semi redeems the last couple seasons

can't wait for spinoff prequel show, "Juice Makes the Worst Decisions"

― mh, Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:51 AM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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it will be called Juice-tified

― sarahell, Thursday, December 12, 2013 1:08 PM (four years ago)

I actually think of this on the reg, like people I know that just constantly make the worst decisions, one of whom is named Anthony. useage e.g. Anthony is so Juice-tified.

episode 2 and this is gonna scratch all the itches alright

Just stop when they leave for Ireland.

Wait, when they get back from Ireland, there's a couple of funny bits there.

milo otm

ive been potting about catching these in dribs and drabs, but ive heard enough to know that a shark is about to be oerleapt- the lads are just about to head off to belfast (which you'd think would be a hard word to mispronounce but).

now without me reading thread or hearing spoilers, should i call it quits now or power through

wait wasnt this answered literally in the last two posts

it's years since I've watched this, but I think the Irish script consultant was actually Jon Bon Jovi!

xp -- oh, you should power through but definitely have a beverage nearby

i think i landed on actually liking this show on the whole despite its massive flaws. not sure i could stomach a rewatch tho.

i confirmed stopping upthread but sarahell is otm - watch with booze! it’s bad but youve come this far,

you can play the drinking game where you drink at every stereotypical portrayal of the Irish

i always do

bell, fast

Mayans MC had all the stupidity and brutality with none of the laughs of the first 2.5-3 seasons of SOA that made it watchable. Almost curious to watch a Sutter-less season to see if anything changed.

I couldn’t even get through the pilot of that show

all the stupidity and brutality with none of the laughs of the first 2.5-3 seasons of SOA

glad i left it alone

Was the move to Ireland noticeably more ridiculous? I can't remember anymore. I recall SoA being fairly ridiculous from the get go.

the only thing missing was leprechauns and a Sean O’Connery carriage ride

sister bangin'

just realized that kelly loeffler reminds me of agent stahl

Hard to say if the show's nadir was the Dave Navarro-related school shooting or the murder of several dozen sex workers that is completely forgotten within two episodes.

so many nadirs