Sons Of Anarchy

[Paul Wozniak]

First - please give a brief description of the program when starting a thread - especially on a new show that no one watched because 40 million viewers were watching something else. Something like:



for example.

From your comment I thought perhaps it was a comedy, which sounded great ! Unfortunately, it isn't. I will still try and check it out anyway, but a biker comedy sounds more entertaining than a biker expose/soap.

BTW, there was a pilot episode on Sept 3 and then a different "premier" episode on Sept 10...

I didn't start the thread.

[KAB]

First - please give a brief description of the program when starting a thread - especially on a new show that no one watched because 40 million viewers were watching something else. Something like:



for example.

From your comment I thought perhaps it was a comedy, which sounded great ! Unfortunately, it isn't. I will still try and check it out anyway, but a biker comedy sounds more entertaining than a biker expose/soap.

BTW, there was a pilot episode on Sept 3 and then a different "premier" episode on Sept 10...

Google It.

[kstuart]

Google It.

You don't understand the concept here.

If, when you start the thread, you simply do the "google" (or wikipedia) yourself, and cut and paste something like:
'

Sons of Anarchy is an
FX

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television series


starring
Charlie Hunnam


about lives of a close-knit
outlaw motorcycle club


operating in the fictional town of Charming in
northern California


.

then you save dozens of other people from having to do the same thing. Otherwise, Fred has to google and George has to do the same google, and Joanne had to do the google, etc. I think there are 100,000 registered people on the site, and many more read it without registering.

A little bit of work saves hours in total for everyone else.

( This is something that I know that Jokeworm does quite a bit - saving many other people from having to do the same thing. )

[kstuart]

Okay, I did watch the pilot today.

If your favorite show was Sopranos, and you've been looking for something to watch ever since, this is your show. Just substitute bikers for Mafia, and otherwise, it has lots of similarities.

Another way of describing the show is that if you remove all the ideology from American History X then what is left - the lifestyle and culture of disaffected working class people - has a lot of similarities with this show.

The acting was very good - during the program, I was following them as real characters, which is the best indication. After viewing, I was interested to note that Charlie Hunnam was born in Newcastle, and yet his character always seemed to be and sound American (James McAvoy is another young British actor who can do a very good American accent).

Katey Sagal was quite believable as the trailer trash version of Sarah Conner. That's helpful, because as the wife of the show's creator, she would get the job regardless.

Overall, the show is well-crafted and realistic. Perhaps too realistic for me - for example, I was bored throughout the movie "Reservoir Dogs" because most of the events were normal reality in the inner city where I grew up - whereas they might have seemed unusual to viewers who grew up in squeaky clean "Spielberg" suburbia.

But it will be worth seeing a second episode - I'm hoping that "the manuscript" is a vehicle that allows the story to go beyond " crueler and bitchier than thou " plots.

And I still think that a bikers comedy would be a great show concept.

[kstuart]

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Okay, so now you've got me started on this show and I've seen all 4 episodes so far.

I liked that addition of Dayton Callie ("Charlie Utter") in the second episode.

One thing I like is that they are not coddling the viewers, they keep mentioning things that you have to pick up as you follow along (much as you have to pick up the customs of the MC if you are a "prospect"). They still haven't explained "Sam Crow" (despite the working title of the show originally being "Forever Sam Crow"). And they keep adding new characters and plot twists, which is essential for keeping my interest (but might be too complicated for Joe Sixpack).

It's too bad this ended up on FX, rather than HBO or Showtime. On the premium channels, they go to lengths to show gratuitous nudity - because it is expected on those channels - by bringing the camera into the bedrooms of the characters.

But in the biker world, the women tend to "let it all hang out" in public as a normal reality. So, the program on FX has to be actually be unrealistic by showing all those fully clad biker babes.
(Another unrealistic aspect of the show is that the women are all facially good looking, whereas biker women tend to be voluptuous, but very ordinary looking.)

[ripnbigc]

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I like it so far, although I have to watch it online, cause I'm an HD only sub.