Sons of Anarchy Review

Influenced by Hamlet, Sons of Anarchy centered around a family (both blood-related and not) of grim reaper patch-wearing outlaw bikers in a club known as SAMCRO (Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Redwood Original), based in the fictional town of Charming, California. Katey Sagal played the matriarch, Gemma, whose Harley-riding son Jax (Charlie Hunnam) is the Hamlet character; he’s caught between pleasing his mother and his stepfather, Clay (Ron Perlman), and honoring his dead father John, a founding member of SAMCRO. But the show’s creator, Kurt Sutter, explained: “For me, all that violence—because it’s not who I am and it’s not where I come from—it’s all fantasy.

In an interview with NPR, Sagal said Sutter wrote the character of Gemma with her and their family dynamic in mind. “If you asked him, what he would tell you probably is when he came into my life, I already had two children, and he’s their stepparent, and I was very protective of my children, Sagal said. RON PERLMAN WASN’T THE FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY CLAY.

“I think Kurt used her as a window, through which the audience could experience the club and the life of the club,” she said. On the show, Charlie Hunnam’s character Jax carries around a Ka-Bar knife. Hunnam said knives were part of biker culture, and California allows people to carry them.

Which is a little bit … grimy, you know? John Landgraf, CEO of FX, took issue with some of Sutter’s ideas, including the castration of a clown—Kurt wanted the visual, FX did not. “When we’re f***ing burning a tattoo with a blowtorch off a guy’s back, that is one of the most extreme decisions these guys may be making, but it’s real to the world,” he said.

She’s killing beloved Tara!” Sagal told People. Fortunately, the death didn’t alienate fans like Sagal thought it would.

Stephen King was a big fan of the show, writing in an Entertainment Weekly column that “it’s one of those shows that seems to have gotten better as it goes along.” Sutter contacted him and asked him to appear in an episode. FX Networks Sutter invited some former cast members from The Shield to cameo on Sons of Anarchy, but he was initially against having Walton Goggins appear.

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