Slaughtered 'Sons Of Anarchy'

Townhall.com ^ | December 12, 2014 | Brent Bozell

[circlecity]

I’ve never seen this show, although I’ve been tempted to start watching it from the beginning on Netflicks. Is is any good?

[Kaslin]

I have no idea, I have never even heard of it.

[cripplecreek]

I walked away from the show in the second season.

Just plain depressing.

[GeronL]

I am glad I never tried to watch that crap

[sauropod]

God is not mocked. He will repay.

[bmwcyle]

I watch one and was so bored that I never watched another.

[Rummyfan]

Have never watched a single episode...

[defconw]

Well it is a very graphic series, but it did tell a story and was compelling enough that my husband and I did watch most of the series. Katy Segal was brilliant. So, not Peg Bundy. But I did find myself somewhat embarrassed at times. I would say if you are a Christian Conservative, maybe not the show for you. If you are more of a Libertarian, then go for it.

[kenmcg]

It’s pure fiction and has no sense of reality. The bike scenes are good. The writer is depraved in the gruesome murders he portrays. It is sick with countless murders. Don’t waste your money paying for it.

[bert]

I did just what you contemplate. I don’t see the overwhelming everything bad in the early episodes.

Anarchy is basically a soap opera with motor cycles. Alternatively, it is The Sopranos... west

If not taken seriously it is fun

[yldstrk]

The reason I stopped watching Scandal was all the senseless killing

[xrmusn]

One good thing about killing everyone off, it makes it harder to start again....

I watched most of it and kind of ‘brutal’ to a point but you have to realize who you are dealing with.

This last season - IMNSHO - was designed to make sure you were glad to see it go...at least IMNSHO...that is the ‘read’ I got.

Sopranos left an out and you could take it anyway you want - especially after the open assault on Meadow a show or two earlier - just showed ‘they’ apparently weren’t afraid of anything - breaking the ‘law’ of ‘No hands on family - you kill the old man that is ‘made’ and you can take care of his family’...

Of course James G sort of put the finishing touch on it, also seeing how most of the ‘original regulars’ had assumed room temp by the end...

Guess there would be ‘room’ for one final wrap up with Tony’s funeral being the center piece and a recap of the whole series in flashbacks.....

[MO Repub mom]

I watched the first few seasons but eventually got burnt out on the sex and violence. It was sensory overload for me and became offensive morally speaking. I used to love gangster movies as a young adult. But as I matured, the characters simply lost their glitter and I saw them for what they were: heartless criminals.

[Kaslin]

He sure will

[defconw]

I have never decided how I felt about the Sopranos ending the way it did. At the time I was shocked, but over time, I guess it left it open for a future series or movie or just allowing the audience to decide how it ended in their own mind.

[Chickensoup]

The Soprano follow-up is Lillehammer. It is a spin off. First season good

Second season, not quite as good

Third season so..eehh.

[Kaslin]

I’ve never watched that either. As a matter of fact I haven’t watched any TV shows or series in ages

[defconw]

Now that you say that, it's funny. As I sit here thinking about it. I don't think that I really ever saw any of the characters as being sympathetic. I wonder why I watched it? Interesting.

mostly monologuing in my own head now, because it was compelling for some reason. Maybe it was the shocking rawness of it.

[yldstrk]

I watched Army Wives on Netflix. My adult kid tried to show me Breaking Bad, but it was too twisted for me. I did enjoy Army Wives, Hart of Dixie (about a NY female doctor who goes south to the Gulf Coast) and I watch Nashville on Amazon after it shows on network tv, that way I avoid commercials.