Shakespeare on a Hog: The Sons of Anarchy thread

meeee!

Jimmy Smits is great thus far. Rest of it is more absurd than ever.

Yeah Jimmy is fantastic.

Yeesh:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/johnny-lewis-dead-28-sons-anarchy-actor-found-dead-home-murdered-woman-article-1.1169366

fucking hell

in other news I can't believe [spoiler]!!!! ;_;

!!!

buckets of tears

I've never seen him but there's something very sinister about this.

So i forgot about ep 2 and this shit doesn't seem to come On Demand but I noticed that late Tuesday night they reaired ep 2 AND 3 at about 1 in the morning or whatevs so I set the DVR to record. Started watching ep 2 but it was clearly in the last 15 or so minutes of ep 3 so I shut my eyes and fast forwarded and all was well. It bled into the recording of ep 3 but I figured I could watch it and it would wrap around to more or less the same part where the first recording started.

Obviously what happened was that presumably the only scene that I didn't get to see at all was the SPOILER but I figured it out from the aftermath so I guess I was deprived of this BIG MOMENT so in conclusion F U FX Scheduling.

it was pretty brutal, even for them

i was sad for a good 24 hours after seeing the latest episode. this season is totally ott

^^^

i like that twice already this season they've done a fake ending "oh here comes the mellow musical montage denouement part of the episode" and then BOOM it's rudely interrupted with more action

i feel like Sons of Anarchy the last couple years is one of the most gutwrenching shows ever -- not just purely for graphic violence or emotional charge or "holy shit" surprises but in terms of the combined effect of all of the above. i know some people would say Breaking Bad moreso, but for me SOA trumps it in that sense -- haven't watched enough Sopranos or The Shield to know if they went even further.

it's definitely gutwrenching.

Tara is really going down the dark rabbithole, I hate to think what they're going to do with her.

The Shield would hit me so hard and so often, some scenes would stay on my mind an haunt me for weeks.

xxp - I would have said that about Breaking Bad for the first couple of seasons, but at this point, it's no contest, SOA wins. I'm such a sap, though, I had to go back and watch episodes from previous seasons when everything was "happier" and "simpler" in order to feel better. In one of those Comic-Con interviews up on youtube, the dude that plays Opie compares his character to Job, in terms of his consistent suffering, and maybe that's why what happened to him hit me so hard? I dunno.

I always definitely felt something kinda biblical in Opie's character, I like the Job comparison. And the way he looked at Jax through the glass right before they beat him was just...yeah that destroyed me.

I bawled all over again when they had the wake.

yeah i think Opie has finally one-upped Tara on True Blood as the most relentlessly abused main character in contemporary cable drama

Walton Goggins FTW!

http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Content/121008/News/2_tues/thumbs/121009SOA1_210x305.jpg

Interview here: http://www.tvguide.com/News/Sons-Anarchy-Walton-Goggins-Woman-1054456.aspx

I quit on the show a bit ago, but that's pretty great.

Your loss, pal.

It looked like Juice was fighting losing his shit every time Walton and Tig interacted.

That whole scene was just awesome from start to finish. And when she kissed Jax at the end... All of their reactions were perfect.

Felt like we suddenly hit the 'things happening!' critical mass point last night. The home invasion thing, I'm thinking it's the 3 new Sons maybe? Maybe they were ringers from the Mayor to bring down the chapter somehow, or some other long game con of some kind?
idk

Yeah, the voice definitely sounded like the chubby curly-haired one. Could be Clay using them to undermine things?

I'm enjoying Jax this season - Hunnam is acting him as leader better than I expected.

he's come so far from
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or
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or

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yeah I was wondering if maybe Clay was behind the whole thing too

he's definitely up to something, shady bastard

I'm thinking it's the 3 new Sons maybe?

it's definitely them - during the home invasion of gemma's place, they showed the fake leg of one of the dudes, and one of the new sons has a fake leg

I came across a show that Sutter did for the Discovery Channel, called Outlaw Empires. It's kinda like that cheesy History Channel show Gangland, looks at different types of gangs and talks to members etc. It's not bad. It's less cheesy than Gangland, in that they limit the talking heads to just 3 or 4 ex-members of whatever gang they're talking about. Except they have super corny reenactments interspersed - hate that stuff, I don't get why they do that. But it's a bit more focused on the story at least. I've been watching them on youtube while I'm bored at work, lol

also I *think* it's narrated by Opie <3

uhh

you guys

did you know that Opie is CLETUS HOGG OF DUKES OF HAZZARD's IRL SON? His dad is Rick Hurst!

He's also 6'4!!!

SON OF CLETUS

Has anyone else noticed that Jax is wearing less S.O.A. "branded" clothing this season? I always thought it was noteworthy that he had all these logo items - the "SON" shirt, the "SO|NS" rings, the reaper crew hat - and wore them way more than any of the other mc members.

Joel Mchale! !!!!!

So, Tara and the perfume?

kinda O_O but mostly O_o

that whole otis thing in the infirmary was hard to watch. like is is this Showtime now, wtf

hey who was the female nurse (or doctor?) in the prison that Tara briefly speak to? she looks crazy familiar

was she masturbating or ... ?

yeah p sure masturbating unless she was perfuming her vag which I doubt it.

that's what i thought, and it was a bit ... strange

the otis stuff in the infirmary felt like, okay does Kurt Sutter just want to pretend to jerk it on tv or is this important somehow.

i think it's gonna be important somehow -- like so far everything this season, and plenty of stuff from prior seasons have come back to play significant functions -- how juice's blackness and run-ins with the feds from season 4 is being used by Clay, and will probably be used by Jax against Clay, how he's using his mom ... also, I remember reading some preview teaser article about this season and it said that both Tara and Jemma would develop various addictions ... or something like that?

i was wondering if somehow tara would hook up with otis but then that would be weird

but yeah, Tara's heading somewhere not good. she keeps making those weird, far-off faces when Jax looks away.

Tara leaving Jax for Otto would be 100% the most hilarious thing that could happen so I'm definitely in favor of that.

Did they even mention the kid in critical condition this week?

Yeah he got discharged

That tara scene was def ... Weird