(I totally thought this would be a band name and then did a Google search and saw it was a TV show? Cool. Names that start "Sons of" are automatically intriguing.)
ETA.... if I had noticed your tag, I maybe have guessed TV before going to Google...
Yeah, it's an FX show about a motorcycle gang. It follows the basic set-up of shows like the Sopranos and Oz - about an underground/out-of-the-mainstream/criminal society tensely co-existing with law-abiding authority figures, with various different gangs (often racially-based, but the ultimate bad bad guys are always KKK-ish) jockeying for power, forming and breaking alliances. Sons of Anarchy has the added focus of the motorcycle gang's family dynamics, which are essentially based on Hamlet (mother, son, stepfather-who-secretly-killed-father). What's impressive to me is that it has such strong female characters for being an extremely masculine show. They're all wives/girlfriends/daughters, of course, but it's very "the women are the power behind the throne." Katey Sagal plays the Gertrude-esque mother, and basically she holds together the two factions of the club (her son vs. her husband).
Ha! Ramble away--it's the only way I ever hear about anything :-P This must be on cable? ... which we don't have--but maybe I can get it on DVD.
Oh, and this morning I had something else I was going to tell you, but I think I'll go stick in the comment thread over on my journal--you'll see it in a minute though.
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Date: 2009-10-28 06:13 am (UTC)ETA.... if I had noticed your tag, I maybe have guessed TV before going to Google...
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Date: 2009-10-28 01:53 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's an FX show about a motorcycle gang. It follows the basic set-up of shows like the Sopranos and Oz - about an underground/out-of-the-mainstream/criminal society tensely co-existing with law-abiding authority figures, with various different gangs (often racially-based, but the ultimate bad bad guys are always KKK-ish) jockeying for power, forming and breaking alliances. Sons of Anarchy has the added focus of the motorcycle gang's family dynamics, which are essentially based on Hamlet (mother, son, stepfather-who-secretly-killed-father). What's impressive to me is that it has such strong female characters for being an extremely masculine show. They're all wives/girlfriends/daughters, of course, but it's very "the women are the power behind the throne." Katey Sagal plays the Gertrude-esque mother, and basically she holds together the two factions of the club (her son vs. her husband).
/ramble I have to spread the word!
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Date: 2009-10-28 02:21 pm (UTC)Oh, and this morning I had something else I was going to tell you, but I think I'll go stick in the comment thread over on my journal--you'll see it in a minute though.
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Date: 2009-10-28 04:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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