the best show no one is watching, or at least the best new show no one in this forum is blogging about. apparently, people somewhere agree with me:
FX has picked up a full second season of 13 episodes of Sons of Anarchy. So far, this new dramatic series is being touted by the network as the most successful launch among A18-49 since the debut of Rescue Me.
i watch this show for every reason under the sun, namely - it's about a small marginalized demographic in the US and it has the potential to be as culturally broadening as the sopranos was re: jersey mafia while still being entertaining and offensive. the character development is complicated and subtle, and we're only 7 episodes in... it is obvious that it is following Shakespeare's Hamlet, but i have no idea how long they will stick to the Bard's script. set in a small fictional town in california, ironically or poetically called charming, it has crept its way onto my list of favorite shows. i'd love to write an ode to katey sagal, (for the uneducated out there, she's peg bundy) who plays a sympathetic yet domineering queen of the gang - Gemma Morrow - who is both a mega bitch and a hooker with a heart of gold.... last week she slammed Taryn Manning's character in the face with a skateboard for screwing her husband at a patch over party and then later was a cooing mother figure towards her as she tried to leave the hangaround caste and join the ranks of old ladies of Sam Crow (Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original Charter). and ron perlman is just amazing as clay. i haven't ever really considered him to be worthwhile, until now.
in short, go here, http://vod.fxnetworks.com/fod/play.php?sh=soa, and start watching, if you haven't already added this as new and repeats to your series recording list.
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Sons of Anarchy is a fantastic show. Most pundits liken it to the Sopranos. I can't unless you call it season one of the Sopranos because that show quickly devolved. SOA is more in line with The Wire and The Brotherhood.
My personal favorite character is the testicularly challenged Half Sack. He is a complete moron. At one point he steals an ambulance without considering that there is not grey or black market for municipally purposed vehicles no matter how valuable.
I also would be remiss if I didn't mention Katey Segal. This is without a doubt her finest work. One plotline focuses on how she deals with menopause from the standpoint of her inability to self lubricate - UNFUCKING BELIEVABLE.
Of course that leads me to the most insane bit of dialogue I've heard on TV that was written for TV in quite some time. Suffice to say that prior to watching SOA I had an awareness that there was such an affliction as necrophilia, but I had no idea that its practitioners referred to it colloquially as "cold packing" Ugh.
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