Shakespeare on a Hog: The Sons of Anarchy thread

it's funny though
i look at this thread title now & go 'aw remember when we thought this show was good' lol

Juice in the interview room with Unser and the Sheriff was so great.

I love Smits too but I thought the crying routine was a bit overdone. There was one point where he was kind of jumping up and down slightly with a sad dog look on his face that was pretty silly.

But yeah, best ep of the season. Hope Kurt didn't shoot his wad too soon though - what are they going to fill up two more weeks with?

i liked Smits being the big emotional breakdown. he's kind of the new guy but he's already invested a lot of pathos into his character and all he's been through and you really feel for him in his "what the hell did i get into with all these crazy white people" weeping. and it just underlined that Gemma has done the unthinkable and that people that love her can never look at her the same way again.

yeah i like the unspeakable anguish angle

The look as he was listening to the phone -- and it was an excellent choice to show his end of the conversation without the audience actually hearing Jax's words -- and realized that the Gemma he thought he knew was hiding this all along was excellent. Just walking away from her, no confrontation, just being over.

okay mano

for all of this show's failings it's really good about letting dudes have a good cry when they want to cry, and not flinching from that

Yep. I was shocked at Jaxs breakdown.

I also really liked the jazz soundtrack to the car chase!

jax's murder of the other samcro president and its fallout have been really nicely done. very foreboding, a lot of creeping dread as the options narrow.

that was the same guy whose club they saved in Season 1, was it not? They patched them over? It is coming full circle. There have been so many mediocre seasons of this show, the first two seasons are so hazy in my memory.

jazz carchase was a+

damn .... so who is gonna die next week?

hal holbrooke wrecked me jfc

liked wendy's line about it not being the first time she'd been in the trunk of a car - nice sopranos nod

blood on the shelltoes
blood on the plough

sing with me now

jax is planning on dying very soon, isn't he?

I'm getting that impression. Kinda half thought he was gonna off himself in this ep from the way he was acting

only question is how. maybe forcing the gang to shoot him the way they did Clay?

well he did ask about the JT manuscript so that will probably play into his death scene.

blood on the manuscript, etc

force fed parts of his motorcycle piece by piece while a bluesy cover of 'Paradise City' plays over top

and what's the old policy thing he asked the other presidents to change? feel like that's something to do with his demise.

Brad Pitt shows up as a long lost cousin, extracts revenge for some bullshit, everyone dies

The bylaw is that there are no black SOA members. Which is a weird thing given John Teller's anarchist leanings - they just stole that device from the real Hells Angels but it doesn't fit this club.

yeah but they've already covered that in old episodes

i reckon it's something else

he doesn't say it's anything to do with the race thing, although now that i think about it, it could be so that they can patch in the niners??

the niners are worried about getting wiped out and jax has promised to take care of them, given all the help they given and risk taken.

that would make sense -- also a lot of things from past seasons are getting brought up again, and not just the "take down the greedy gun dealer and the IRA Kings will give the club what they want" plot

hmmm

he said it was an unofficial custom and not a bylaw, though

Speculation I saw was patching the Grim Reapers to give the club enough bodies.

Exit, pursued by a bear pig or twenty.

Because of the last few weeks irl, my first response was, "That's really not very many cops"

Cops pretty leisurely in pursuit. But who cares. Thank god this is done.

You probably should have gone with "it is finished" to further hammer home the clumsy Christ imagery.

that would have really "nailed" the ending

lol the very ending

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!