
About 1,5 week ago I started watching Sons of Anarchy (SoA). I've heard a lot of good things about it and since I am a of Kurt Sutter's other show The Shield, I figured I would check SoA out. I realise my to watch list is getting bigger and bigger, but I have no regrets at all adding SoA to this list. I finished the first season in about 4 to 5 days and I'm now all caught up till episode 8 of season 2.
And all I can say is that this show is so good. SO GOOD. I've come to realise that most of the shows I watch are pretty much the same and aren't innovative at all. But this show is. I have never seen a show like this before. While I do enjoy tv shows like Merlin, Supernatural, Castle, Glee or whatever, most of the shows I watch aren't mind breaking. They are there for entertainment and I love them for it, but SoA goes beyond that.
I found this perfect description on another journal (
captaincatapult) and I couldn't explain it any better.
Somehow the producers and writers have created a universe so rich in content and character that at this point it seems like even 15 seasons wouldn't be enough. There is so much to explore! If you are interested in questions of morality, ethics, what constitutes a grey area, the inner-workings of biological families and found families and how they intermingle, lonely lonely men, fantastically complex and strong women, race, gender, and class issues, behind-the-times small town life, the limits and downfalls of bureaucracy, anarchy as applied to modern society, protection vs. endangering and how sometimes they have to be the same, extremely loose adaptations of Hamlet, the after effects of accidental murder, long term PTSD, relentlessly STUNNING romantic love, etc. - IT IS FOR YOU.
All that is portrayed by phenomenal actors. Actors that you've seen in Hollywood movies, but aren't "Hollywood" at all. I'm talking about a Ron Perlman, Katey Segal, Mark Boone Junior etc. Their names probably don't ring a bell, but their faces sure do look familiar. The acting is amazing; all the actors on the show really bring the characters to life. There are practically no good guys on the show. You will see that everyone has a price. Somehow you can even have sympathy for the worst kind of people on this show. You end up caring about them and maybe even understand why they are doing such horrible acts.
Again, I'm quoting
captaincatapult because I have trouble explaining this show in proper English and I couldn't say it any better:
Everything that happens on this show can be interpreted in about five different ways, and there are a lot of times when the "protagonists" are deeply in the wrong, and a lot of times when the "antagonists" are, on principle, correct. But oh man, the concept of "what is right" and "the law" on this show are so, so complex, which makes sense given that its foundation is a type of anarchy/self-rule.
If by now I still haven't got you convinced to watch SoA, maybe
this pretty picspam will win you over.
You'll end up loving or hating this show. And even if it's the latter one, you will end up thinking and ask questions about morality, ethics and all those other aspects that were mentioned earlier. I highly recommend this show.