'Sons of Anarchy' Recap: Season 6 Premiere Full of Tragedy and Cheating

FX's motorcycle drama returns with a significant event taking place toward the end of the episode.

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Sons of Anarchy has had plenty of shocking episodes throughout its first five seasons. The show has never shied away from bloody deaths, distressing violence or surprising storylines. But FX's motorcycle drama took things a step further with Tuesday's premiere episode for season six.

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The episode ended with a shocking twist. A young boy, who had been shown throughout the episode, was seen walking into a school and going on a shooting spree. This will obviously affect SAMCRO because the gun was sold to the kid's father by the motorcycle club.

Here are other highlights from the season six premiere.
Jax, Tara and Clay
Jax is running both the club and his household because Tara is still in jail. Gemma is, of course, helping out with her grandkids.
Jax meets with August Marks, who is now running Damon Pope’s group. He tells Jax that Clay is in protective custody, which might mean that the Feds want him to turn on the club. August tells him that Jax still owes him Tig. While Jax tries to convince him that their club can’t handle another loss, August says that that’s not his problem and that the deal will be, if he can get Clay killed, then Jax will give him Tig.
Tara and her short hair should post bail soon, but Tara’s lawyer fills Jax in on Tara’s suspicions that it was Gemma who turned her in. Tara is also refusing to see Jax.

Torture Porn
Layla is beat up because she was supposed to get a job that she thought was normal porn, but it turns out it was torture porn. Jax vows to go after the guys.
They drop by the warehouse and teach the torture porn crew not to mess with one of their women. However, just when they’re about to leave, the place gets busted by officers.
The officers bring them to Charlie Barosky (Peter Weller) who seems to run Stockton. After correcting Jax’s lack of knowledge on why the men aren’t called Persians, Barosky asks Nero to help his friend with her escort business.
Tig, still dealing with the death of his daughter, is pushed over the edge when one of the Iranian men makes a joke about his daughter doing porn. He drowns the man in a tub of literally piss and vinegar. He drops the body in the cage in the water.

Lee Toric
The former U.S. Marshal is still pulling his connections to make the lives of the members of the club miserable. He has Otto being sexually attacked repeatedly in prison.
He also meets up with Clay and says he wants Clay to turn on the club so he can have his revenge for his sister’s death.
It turns out that it was Toric who got Tara put into jail. He visits her in jail, and tells her that he wants to use her, asking her to give up her husband. He offers her witness protection for her and her children. “I’m not guilty, and I’m not a rat,” she says.
Clay, however, might be. Before Clay walks into the general population at the prison, where he thinks he’ll be killed off by Damon Pope’s people, he tells the guard he wants a deal.
Juice and Chibs
Juice returns, but Chibs is not happy to see him. However, Jax has given Juice a pardon so there’s nothing Chibs can do other than beat him up -- which he does. He also helps him clean his wounds when he's done.
The last few moments of the episode are an emotional montage reviewing where every character is at the moment. It’s a stark difference from where they were even one season ago. Tara is seen starting a fight in jail; Tig is cradling a baby; Bobby's looking for another group to join; and Jax is being "taken care of" by the madame of the brothel.
What did you think of the season 6 premiere? Sound off in the comment section below.


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Trigger Warning: Sons of Anarchy Out-Shocks Itself Again

When I wrote a long essay early this year about the increasingly, luridly graphic violence in TV drama, I knew that one of the best people to talk to about it would be Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter. Sutter uses violence lavishly, and–he said as much in the interview–he’s not above using it to be a “provocateur,” to wake the audience up and get attention. But he also thinks a lot about why he uses it, why it’s important to a given story, and what it does to characters in the long-term. In his words:

When you don’t have that sense of responsibility and when you don’t look at the actions of your characters–What’s the reaction to those actions? What are the consequences?  Who do they impact emotionally, physically, spiritually, whatever you want to – however you want to look at it.  That’s, I think, when it gets sort of exploitative.  That’s when it then just sort of crosses into violence for violence’s sake and then I think you get into glamorizing the violence and the shooting and all that stuff – when there is no consequence for that stuff.

The season 6 premiere last night was definitely an example of Sons using violence as a shocker; it could also, let’s hope, be an example of Sons showing that violence has consequences that can’t be avoided or forgotten. There were not one but two rape scenes; there was a drowning; and most horrifyingly after the events of the last year, there was the closing school shooting, which felt like territory that even Sons had not entered before.
[Arguable spoilers related to the coming episodes follow--I've seen two more--so be warned.] When Sons is at its best, it’s a show with a memory; it earns its bloody moments and doesn’t let them be forgotten. (Even Tig’s murder of the pornographer recalls the graphic burning of one of his daughters last year, as the sleazeball unwittingly recalls it by taunting, “Oh, Daddy, Daddy, that hurts.”)
Here, both the rape-porn storyline and the school shooting underscore the idea, repeated in Sons, that one you start crossing moral lines, you can’t control the repercussions, even when you tell yourself that there are worse bad guys than you. It wasn’t SAMCRO shooting up those classrooms or brutalizing porn actresses, but they’re not that far removed from either enterprise. You can tell yourself that you’re one of the nice pornographers, but you’re still working on a continuum that ends up with rape on camera. You can deal in guns and tell yourself it’s just business, but you’re still feeding a flood of guns that don’t kill only bad guys. (Talking about the episode at the TCA press tour, Sutter confirmed what the premiere episode hinted at, namely, that SAMCRO would end up entangled in the fallout from the shooting.)
You can’t, to borrow a line from SoA’s 1920s cousin in bloodshed Boardwalk Empire, be half a gangster, no matter how often you tell yourself you are. Jax has spent five seasons trying to find a way to change SAMCRO, to tame its worst impulses, but it increasingly looks like SAMCRO has changed him.
So was the shooting exploitative? Because SoA plays a long game, it depends on how well and unflinchingly it looks at the tragedy’s consequences, whether it’s something more than one more problem for Jax to deal with. Sutter has said that this episode marks the show’s gearing up for its final act (season 7 is expected to be the last, though it’s not official), so I’m hoping this climactic horror gets treated as the last “Straw”–see the episode’s title–that it seems to be.
And I hope it’s not just another plot twist to be one-upped by even bigger shockers. It would be a missed opportunity if, after a few weeks of horror at this scene, SoA moves on and forgets–even if the real world sometimes does just that.

Source: http://entertainment.time.com

The day after Sons of Anarchy Season 5 came to a shocking end, creator Kurt Sutter jumped on the phone with reporters and spilled some nuggets regarding Season 6.
To wit:

• Donal Logue will return for 7-8 episodes as Lee Toric.
• The status of Jimmy Smits and Drea de Matteo is unknown, but Sutter would love to have each back.
• Future episodes will delve into the relationship of Jax and Bobby, as well as Jax and Chibs, who Sutter now sees as the new Opie, Jax's true right-hand man.
• The bond between Jax and Gemma will be stronger than ever when the series returns.
• Sutter is still weighing how much time will have gone by between seasons; it may be a couple weeks, it may be a few months.

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Sons of Anarchy Scoop: Rocker Dave Navarro Lands Arc as Nero's

 
Dave Navarro has booked an arc on FX’s red-hot Sons of Anarchy, TVLine has confirmed.
The actor-rocker-tattoo aficionado will play a member of the Byz-Lats who works closely with Jimmy Smits’ “companionator” Nero.


Source:http://tvline.com