For Battlestar Galactica, it was outer space and science fiction. For Friday Night Lights, it was football. For The Wire and Breaking Bad, it was the drugs. I’ve spoken in previous pieces, particularly in the top ten drama list here at Outkick, of the Trojan horse that often makes a show palatable and almost feels like a dirty secret that explains adoration. So many times since my initial binge of the first three years of Sons, I have had to sell a friend or a coworker or someone else that usually respects my opinion on these matters, on the “it’s not just a motorcycle show” idea. Not only did I not watch the show from the beginning, I despised the “Chopper” phenomenon and had no real interest in motorcycles past the occasional internal observation that the bikes looked pretty sweet as I passed them on an Interstate. For those of you wondering what that SAMCRO acronym means as you’ve seen it on a random Twitter feed or as someone’s anonymous forum name or even on some garment somewhere, it stands for “Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Redwood Original.” I hurt when they hurt, rejoiced when they rejoiced, and yes, lived vicariously through them as they banged the occasional hooker or stripper. I felt like I was a member of SAMCRO because I knew every one of these guys. It was violent, it was gory, it was ugly, it was gross, it was disgusting, it was biting, it was unapologetic, yet somehow, it was absolutely gorgeous. I have done the binge thing before, long before it was cool or culturally acceptable (says the single guy), but never had a show affected me emotionally quite like this little story about a California motorcycle club. I caught up with the show during the Season 3 break and watched the entire thing up to that point in a weekend. I didn’t watch Sons of Anarchy from the beginning. December 9, 2014, for many, will always be known as the day “Papa’s Goods” engrossed them, left them both somber and appreciative, and ended one of the great sagas in cable television history. Because on that night, more specifically that evening, Jax Teller took his final ride and the Sons of Anarchy logo appeared on our screens for the very last time.
HBO opened our eyes, FX then came around and blew our minds with the sheer rigidity of content and the unflinching nature of the shows the network presented.ĭecemis barely even out of the rear view, but in television, despite the many critics who ran the other way when the show shifted its pacing, its structure, and its focus, that day will mean something until the end of time. I had become a bigger fan of television but it was still comedy first, drama second, and it had to be the right drama.
#SONS OF ARCHY PROFESSIONAL#
In 2008, I lived in South Carolina, was still actively involved on the creative and verbal side of professional wrestling, and was wondering about my own future. So many dramas, even those from the late 90s and early Aughts (for lack of a better term), felt outdated because so many people on camera actually engaged in long form conversations with one another that involved eye contact. Septemfeels like an eternity ago, particularly in a world where the memories seem shortened by the electronic communication that both makes this article readable but also destroys interpersonal relationships. The supporting actors would come from all walks of television and film, but in many ways, this cast would come to define not just Sutter’s vision, but also FX as a whole in the way the network approached its properties. An actor best known (in America) for a short-lived Judd Apatow FOX comedy and an extremely talented and underrated woman, who seemingly would always be known as Peg Bundy from Married…With Children, led the cast of Sutter’s show. The subject matter was the world of bike culture, not TREK but Harley.
The creator and show runner was a soft spoken but manically and creatively insane Kurt Sutter. His subject matter was off the beaten path, his cast wasn’t the star-studded lineup of many of his colleague’s efforts, and the network, well – it was on the rise.
Several years ago, a writer relatively fresh off his work with Shawn Ryan on the Shield, decided it was time to add another crime story to the flat screen universe.
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