I haven't watched SOA... But I quit watching violent TV after I saw Sponge Bob kill Patrick with a claw hammer...I’ve never seen this show, although I’ve been tempted to start watching it from the beginning on Netflicks. Is is any good?
I walked away from the show in the second season.
Just plain depressing.
I am glad I never tried to watch that crap
God is not mocked. He will repay.
Have never watched a single episode...
The reason I stopped watching Scandal was all the senseless killing
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.....
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.
As for quality, the first six seasons told a complex tale pretty well, with the big moral dilemma whether the main character should abandon "the life" or not. The final (7th) season (which just ended) was notably lesser in quality. It ended pretty much as it had to end.
Programs like this, that are wildly or even reasonably successful serve to incrementally “push” the boundaries of what is and is not acceptable on the television.
I’m sure the SOA replacement will have even more gratuitous violence, homo sex, trans sex etc...
It’s like a drug to some of these people in the tv business.
Started off ok....but the show became a cartoon.
Thanks for posting this thread. I was almost gonna start binge-watching SOA in Netflix. Kinda glad I didn’t invest the time.
The replies on this thread tell me I would have liked much of the series, maybe even most of it. But there are better alternatives.
So what am I watching? Call the Midwife. My wife said; “You do know this is a chick flick series, right”?
And it is, but apart from all the screaming labor scenes in every show, there is good acting - good drama.
Well Brent, there are only just so many episodes of “Matlock”.
I'm kinda fond of Sleepy Hollow though
I haven't watched SOA... But I quit watching violent TV after I saw Sponge Bob kill Patrick with a claw hammer... Because someone lying to themselves and to others about their anatomy constitutes honesty?
I have been a casual watcher of the show on Netflix, and while it is generally a pretty good series, it has jumped the shark in the last few seasons. It’s much like the Sopranos in many ways, including the creators usage of the series to push his personal (leftist) political agenda with some of the story lines and some not so subtle digs at conservatives.
Gen-u-wine filth! Don’t put up with any imitations!
I hope it was a cathartic experience for those who grooved on it. It can’t have done much other good.