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Sons of Anarchy recap: “A Mother’s Work”

Perhaps there are many occasions when a Sons of Anarchy recap just can’t do justice to what it’s describing. I’ll go ahead and tell you all the things that happened in the Season 6 finale, but it can’t match the power of seeing it. But be warned, this is going to hurt, and probably make you mad and want to go into a Jax-like rage of spitting out your words then yelling uncontrollably for a sentence or two then kicking something. Tara (Maggie Siff) is the subject of everyone’s curiosity, with most of the club assuming she had cut a […]

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Sons of Anarchy recap: “You Are My Sunshine”

Now is about the time in every Sons of Anarchy run when it feels more like the end of the series is near, and not just the season. That’s never more true than after the events of “You Are My Sunshine,” this week’s Sons of Anarchy recap. We start with Patterson (CCH Pounder) reaming Jax (Charlie Hunnam) over the bloodbath he orchestrated involving Galen (Timothy V. Murphy) and Clay (Ron Perlman). She knows he’s lying, he knows she knows, but in the end they both came out better off. Perhaps Patterson is willing to let things slide a little bit […]

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“Sons of Anarchy”: 5 most shocking deaths

(WARNING: This post contains massive spoilers for several seasons of Sons of Anarchy, so if you’re not caught up, get thee to a DVD player or streaming device and make it happen.) It’s a dicey proposition trying to rank the most shocking deaths in a show like Sons of Anarchy. You always have to consider it a work in progress. To wit, I started this blog a few weeks ago after Lee Toric’s wtf death scene, before other assignments sort of put it on the back burner until time got away from me. Well, then Kurt Sutter and Company go […]

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Sons of Anarchy recap: “Aon Rud Pearsanta”

All right, so now I know why FX didn’t send along a screener for this week’s episode ahead of time. I mean, yes, it always help when doing a Sons of Anarchy recap to have time to process what you’ve seen, but in this case, secrecy had to be a priority. To say this is a game-changer might be underselling it a bit. So if you haven’t seen the episode yet — the title of which translates to “Nothing Personal” — run away, run far away, because you can’t unhear these spoilers. Let’s just come out with it. Halfway through […]

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Sons of Anarchy recap: “Huang Wu”

I’m sitting here staring this Sons of Anarchy recap trying to think of any moments more tense than watching Tara (Maggie Siff) at the beginning of this episode walking around her house, unable to find baby Thomas, and fearing what has happened now that her husband, Jax (Charlie Hunnam) has come home. … Nope, can’t think of any right now. She eventually finds her husband and her sons in a scene that on a normal day would be quite serene, Jax holding his baby boy and watching his other son sleep peacefully. But now we don’t know what’s going to […]

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Sons of Anarchy recap: “John 8:32”

Rarely are titles of episodes more indicative of what’s to come than for this Sons of Anarchy recap. If you don’t have a Bible handy, I’ll just paraphrase John 8:32 and tell you it’s the one that says “the truth shall set you free.” Well, Jax (Charlie Hunnam) gets a whole Old Testament load of truth this episode, and it’s going to make the rest of the season one to remember. The episode starts with an only so-so attempt to draw parallels between couples Jax and Tara (Maggie Siff) and Gemma (Katey Sagal) and Nero (Jimmy Smits). Essentially, the point […]

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Sons of Anarchy recap: “Los Fantasmas”

Sons of Anarchy recap: “Los Fantasmas” After the entertaining sidetrip last week that showed us the continuing exploits of Venus Van Dam, we get back on track this week with a pretty focused, straightforward episode. The fallout from Tara’s (Maggie Siff) stunning maneuver against Gemma (Katey Sagal) starts to take shape, while some expected flaws also begin to be exposed, while Nero (Jimmy Smits) makes a fateful decision from jail. Roosevelt (Rockmond Dunbar) presses Gemma for a statement, and she’s surprisingly cool and calm as she spells it out for him. As furious as she must be, it’s hard not […]

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Sons of Anarchy recap: “Sweet and Vaded”

Last week’s episode included a memorable line from DA Patterson (CCH Pounder) where she takes off her wig, looks in the mirror and says, “Time to go hood, sister.” Tara (Maggie Siff) was on the receiving end of the tirade that came next, and she looked about as shellshocked as we’ve ever seen her. But it looks like she might have gleaned some inspiration from Patterson’s maneuver, because as you’ll see in this Sons of Anarchy recap, Tara goes all-out gangsta as her ultimate plan to separate her boys from SAMCRO. But first things first. The cleanup continues at the […]

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Sons of Anarchy recap: “Salvage”

Blowing up the clubhouse, the main setting for nearly six seasons. That should be some season-finale shit right there, right? Not if you’re Kurt Sutter or any of the other minds behind Sons of Anarchy. Any episode can lead to permanent game-changing events, so much so that when one character almost gets killed, it can kind of feel like a cheat, or a case of the writers losing their nerve. I mean, seeing Jax (Charlie Hunnam)  and Chibs (Tommy Flanagan) walking through the charred remains of Teller Morrow in the opening moments of Episode 6 … that’s like seeing Kirk, […]

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Sons of Anarchy Season 6 recap: “The Mad King”

It’s not at all uncommon for a series to follow up a huge, game-changing episode — like the one Sons of Anarchy Season 6 threw at us last week — with a rather ho-hum affair. And while some big stuff does indeed happen in “The Mad King,” including one, ahem, explosive ending, for the most part it’s a rather subdued hour filled with the mechanics of moving pieces together for whatever is to come later on. Lee Toric’s death apparently wasn’t the earth-shattering event for the characters that it was for viewers (at least me anyway), as they tend to […]