Papa’s Basement 9-8-10-The Slampigs of Jersey Shore
No one likes to admit it, but every guy out there would bang at least one of the girls on Jersey Shore. Be it fantastically gargantuan fake breasts (Jwoww), forgiveness […]
I’ve made no secret of my love for Sons of Anarchy (my previous thoughts on the show can be found here), the Kurt Sutter’s show on FX about an outlaw biker gang and the family behind it that struggles to keep things together. Think of it as a mix of The Sopranos, Easy Rider and Dallas…in other words, pulpy fun that makes you feel like a bit more of a badass for watching it than it should. Well, the show was back for it’s third season last night. Here’s my quick take.
This episode was, for the most part, slow as balls, which I don’t really begrudge it, given it’s the season premiere and it has to take the majority of its time just to establish things. Jax, heir apparent to the throne of the Sons of Anarchy, spends much of the episode drunk and shirtless, pining over his abducted son Abel. Reminds me of my average day except replace the word “abducted son Abel” with “failure of a radio career.” Oh, and my abs make Charlie Hunnam look like Tommy Lasorda, natch. Gemma (Katey Sagal), matriarch of the crew, is on the lam, forced to hole up from the law in a seedy motel in the wake of a frameup by federal agent June Stahl (Ally Walker). By episode’s end, she makes a break for it, unable to cope with life in a small room with nothing but a bed and cable tv for entertainment (which depressed the hell out of me because, if you throw a laptop, jar of lube and living at home into the mix, that’s the entirety of my existence).
Thankfully, the episode’s ending redeems it by throwing some fantastic action and bloodshed into the equation that will no doubt shape the trajectory of the majority of the season (Sutter’s use of violence to set a plot in motion ranks right up there with David Chase’s). If you haven’t seen Sons of Anarchy yet, you won’t regret watching it, and it’s still very easy to pick up one episode into the mix. If you have, well, I want to close this week’s review as I will close every week’s review: By forcing you to hum the show’s theme “This Life” for the rest of your work day by linking you to a video for the song.
vagoo on September 8, 2010
lam, not lamb. “on the lamb” sounds like a menstruation euphemism.
MB on March 10, 2011
I can’t read much of this post because I am waiting for season 3 to come out. Haven’t watched an episode since the end of season 2, when they killed my husband Henry Rollins.
However, Ally Walker comes off as absolutely unhinged in this role. It’s excellent. Awesome show, FX gets it right sometimes. “Justified” is good, Boyd is a trip.