Last week on Tuesday, Nov. 12, fans of the popular show “Sons of Anarchy” were glued to their televisions as they watched an episode of what will be considered one of the most shocking seasons in the show’s history. With the absolutely stunning plotlines and dramatic developments experienced in the past several weeks, fans have undergone a complete shift from what they thought of many characters on the show.
With the tumultuous plotline surrounding Dr. Tara Knowles and her difficulties with defecting from her involvement with the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, followers of the show have witnessed the darker side of the wife of club president Jax Teller. Tara, played by actress Maggie Siff, has rearranged her priorities this season and has schemed to take her and her sons away from the small town of Charming, Calif. Over the past several episodes, we’ve seen her plans initiated and failed, after her actions were revealed to everyone. Faking a miscarriage and blaming it on Jax’s psychotic mother Gemma almost worked, but Gemma’s intense way of prying answers out of people eventually led to the truth.
Many fans have grown tired of Gemma’s overemotional character. Gemma, played by Katey Segal, is one of the most focused on characters in the show. With a colored history in the show, Gemma has been loved and hated by fans all throughout the six intense seasons. Having gone through so much, she gains sympathy and admiration with her strength and resolve, yet earns the scorn of the audience with her overbearing and intrusive nature. Being the wife of show creator Kurt Sutter, many believe that Gemma sometimes gets an unnecessary amount of attention and that too many plotlines include her.
However, most skeptics could barely think of that while watching her in this recent season, seeing as it is one of the most volatile yet. With Jax and the others now aware of Tara’s betrayal, the overwhelmed club president has her under watch as he tries to juggle so many problems at once. The more immediate of these various problems is the repercussions felt after “Samcro” decided to remove themselves from the gun running business. The begrudged IRA destroyed the club house and now has the sons subject to their idea of a transition out of guns. In the most recent episode, insane IRA shot caller Galen forces the Sons to help them move distribution to the Italians, and guns down a member of Henry Li’s Chinese gang just to prove that he is the only seller in Northern California.
With California law enforcement breathing down the club’s neck to find a scapegoat for a school shooting, Jax has arranged that the biggest gun supplier in Northern California be captured by police in exchange for the club’s immunity. Galen has planned to break the club’s former president Clay Morrow out of jail, and Jax has planned to waltz him into an ambush.
In conclusion, after seeing some new sides of some of their most beloved characters, fans of “Sons of Anarchy” are still adjusting to this new feeling of dread as the club spirals closer and closer to dissolution. Needless to say, everyone is looking forward to the next episode so see just how successful Jax’s plan will be.
