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Sons of Anarchy - Season 4 - Tuesdays on FX

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Sons of Anarchy is back for Season 4 starting Tuesday, September 6th at 10pm on FX. While it's still not immensely popular on GAF, SoA is both a ratings success story on FX and a critically respected show. After some plotting issues last season stemming from the Ireland trip, the show returns to its roots with a Charming-based S4. Created by Kurt Sutter (The Shield), the show has been compared to The Shield and The Sopranos, as well as being described as "Hamlet on a Harley." With high calibre acting, dark humor, sex, violence, and profanity, this is tv for adults.

Also, just a quick heads up that the S3 blu-ray and dvds are out on August 30th.

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Summary
FX's original series, Sons of Anarchy, is an adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones that explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle club's (MC) desire to protect its livelihood while ensuring that their simple, sheltered town of Charming, California remains exactly that, Charming. The MC must confront threats from drug dealers, corporate developers, and overzealous law officers. Behind the MC's familial lifestyle and legally thriving automotive shop is a ruthless and illegally thriving arms business. The seduction of money, power, and blood.

Jackson 'Jax' Teller (Charlie Hunnam) is the MC's vice-president, whose loyalty to the club is tested by his growing apprehension for its lawlessness; Gemma Teller Morrow (Katey Sagal) is Jax's force-of-nature mother; and Clarence 'Clay' Morrow (Ron Perlman) is Jax's stepfather and MC president. The triangle of Mother, Son, and Stepfather will ultimately reveal the dark secrets in this family's past and the lengths they will go to protect their sins.

Kurt Sutter has stated that there will be a 14 month time lapse to allow for the majority of SAMCRO's prison sentence to occur offscreen, but is undecided on whether to start the season with them in prison, or after they have been released. "There will be a new mayor, a new chapter and a new sheriff. The 21st century is going to land at SAMCRO's doorstep." Danny Trejo will guest star as Romero “Romeo” Parada, a former Mexican military commando. Rockmond Dunbar and LaMonica Garrett join the cast as Sheriff Eli Roosevelt and Deputy Sheriff Cane respectively.
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Videos
Two clips over on Facebook:

Recap vids for S1-S3 put together by FX:

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Joining the cast this season:

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Rockmond Dunbar will play
Eli Roosevelt, the new sheriff in Charming. He's described as a formidable, confident and forthright lawman who makes it clear to Jax (Charlie Hunnam), Clay and the rest of the club that things have changed during their 14 months in prison.

Ray McKinnon plays
Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA), “Lincoln Potter”, in season four of Sons of Anarchy. Both antagonist and provocateur to the SAMCRO crew, McKinnon portrays the strange, gangly man behind the “federally funded curtain” aimed at rendering organized crime in Northern Cali ineffective, if not inert. Let the mind games begin.
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Additional actors appearing this season include Danny Trejo as
a former Mexican military commando
, David Hasselhoff as
a well-endowed former porn star
, LaMonica Garrett as
Deputy Sheriff Cane
, and Fernanda Andrade as
a sexy latina babysitter
.

Set photos from filming S4:

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Castmates Tommy Flanagan and Ron Perlman.

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Showrunner Kurt Sutter (squatting, back to camera), consults with his cast (clockwise from left): Perlman, Charlie Hunnam, Theo Rossi, William Lucking, Ryan Hurst, Flanagan, Kim Coates.

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Coates, Flanagan, and Hurst at the SAMCRO table.

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Sutter (right) talks out the script with actors Dayton Callie, Maggie Siff, and Katey Sagal.

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Flanagan and Perlman.

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Nizz

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Yes! One of my favorite shows is back soon. :) Tuesdays just aren't the same without this show on.
 
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rocksteady1983

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Love the show. Season 3 wasn't my favorite but the last episode of season 3 was probably one of the better endings to a season I have ever seen.

I personally want Jax and Clay to get along, but I guess I can see where Jax is coming from.
 
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RepairmanJack

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Glad the show is back. Last season was pretty meh packed in the middle two great episodes. I like the addition of Dunbar, and the focus being back on Charming.
 
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Hopefully they'll start to get into the meat of the show. Last season seemed to be more about buying time without moving the main plot forward much than anything else.

Clay's arthritis will force some interesting changes soon, as well as the truth about John Teller (finally) coming out.
 
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YoungHav

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LOL @ this being compared to The Shield and Sopranos. They better come back hard because season 3's writing was weak.
 
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Garryk said:
Just watch the season finale.
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Exactly, so you can have a point of reference for this upcoming season. I have been pretty down on the series after S3 (which I think was basically a complete clusterfuck), but the things I've been hearing about this season sound better, so I'm going to continue forward.
 
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Garryk said:
Just watch the season finale.
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The S3 premiere was pretty good, too. When we finished up S3 last Fall, the conventional wisdom was that the short version of S3 is to watch the premiere, the 'previously on SoA' segment before the finale, then watch the finale.

That being said, a few people have noted that S3 holds up a bit better if you just marathon the whole thing instead of watching on a weekly basis. It's not really my cup of tea to skip through material on shows I'm watching, so I wouldn't go for the "short version" anyway.
 
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Cornballer said:
The S3 premiere was pretty good, too. When we finished up S3 last Fall, the conventional wisdom was that the short version of S3 is to watch the premiere, the 'previously on SoA' segment before the finale, then watch the finale.

That being said, a few people have noted that S3 holds up a bit better if you just marathon the whole thing instead of watching on a weekly basis. It's not really my cup of tea to skip through material on shows I'm watching, so I wouldn't go for the "short version" anyway.
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Yeah, I marathoned season 3 and the
Ireland
episodes weren't nearly as bad as they probably would have been on a week-to-week basis.
 
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Cornballer

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Yeah_its_Bob said:
Oh ok just saw your post. So premier and finally forget the middle?
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My advice would be to keep watching the season in order after you finish the S3 premiere and see how it goes. If you find it tedious, then skip it. There are a lot of other people that'd advise you to go straight to the finale, but I figure you might as well give it a shot if you have some time.
 
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- Sutter with a few thoughts on S4 over on his blog:
Hamlet Maybe

As I close in on writing the last three episodes of the season, I am beginning to clearly see the final act of Sons. This awareness took me back to the Hamlet archetype that inspired the show and I'm trying to envision how much of the series will eventually come back around to that homage.

Some. I think.

There are big character shifts in season four. We knock people off the fence and we make them choose. The finale for season four will feel like a series end in a lot of ways, but the truth is, it will create a new beginning. The beginning of the end. Season five and six, if I'm lucky enough to get, will explore that new dynamic. Season seven will be all about the fall of heroes and the rise of men.

As far as potential shit I may actually steal from the Bard, it comes down to themes. I will definitely continue to play out the ghost of Hamlet's father theme, the conflicted son theme and the plotting mother theme. As well as some others. And there may even be a few narrative lifts from the Shakespearean playbook as well. I won't spoil those. I can tell you this, the show doesn't end in a pool of blood with all players dead.

That will happen in season six... just kidding. I think.

And in light of my recent social media extraction, I thought I'd leave you with this from Act 1, scene 3:

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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Cornballer

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- Maureen Ryan: 'Sons of Anarchy' Returns with New Tensions and a Town Transformed *some spoilers*
I'll post a full review of the first three episodes of the new season early next week, but I can say that after season 3's ups and downs, which included the Sons' trip to Belfast, things definitely appear to be centered on the 'SOA' clubhouse in Charming again. The solid season opener has made me very intrigued to see where things go next for Jax (Charlie Hunnam), Tara (Maggie Siff), Clay (Ron Perlman), Gemma (Katey Sagal) and the rest of the Reaper Crew -- all of whom may well have differing agendas as the season plays out.

As Perlman said at a press gathering in July,
"Charming has changed rather dramatically. Dayton Callie, who plays Sheriff Unser, has been retired. ...We come to meet [the new sheriff] very early on and come to dislike [him] very quickly thereafter. We have a new mayor, Jacob Hale, who is determined to change the sort of spiritual, socioeconomic makeup of the town. So we come out to a transformed environment to a place where they've tried to scapegoat the club and say the Sons of Anarchy are responsible for all the ills that you've ever experienced in Charming. And we've got our work cut out for us, because the town has always been something that was partially in our own image of what .. we found tolerable about a decent, mom-and-pop, rural American place."

All the outsiders who want to take down the club, including a new U.S. Attorney who has the Sons directly in his sights, will ratchet up the pressures on the men of SAMCRO even further, creator and executive producer Kurt Sutter told reporters at the same media gathering.

"I think the idea always is to use those external pressures to... incubate what's going on inside the club," Sutter said. "When you have these dynamics set up as we set up this season -- with the Russians in the premiere and then ultimately with the Mexicans -- there's all these internal conflicts going on. And then, when you add the external pressure of a new sheriff, for me, it's always about using those external things just to torque up and create more tension" within the club.
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More via the link.
 
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Cornballer said:
As far as I know, that's always been the plan. He's had the full arc in mind from the beginning.
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I can't imagine he put any thought into that Ireland trainwreck before he got to it.
 
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God...S3. My brain reals thinking of that shite season. I give this season a few crap episodes before giving up on it.
 
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Cornballer

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- There's a very early review of "Sons of Anarchy" season 4 on the Sepinwall/Fienberg podcast from last week. (11:00 - 20:30 of the podcast)

Clevinger said:
I can't imagine he put any thought into that Ireland trainwreck before he got to it.
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I don't think going to Ireland and relating back story for the club was an issue - I think the problem was spending half the season doing it while relegating the people back in Charming to lesser subplots. I'm hoping that groundwork pays dividends in some fashion as the next season unfolds.
 
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Landgraf, one of my favourite entertainment executives ever, has pretty much told Sutter that he has seven seasons for the show. In fact, even before the second season started airing, when the ratings really weren't that great, he told Hunnam to consider himself locked into a seven year contract in blood (obviously, this was said in a jokey way, but the mere suggestion that seven years was possible was there right at the beginning)
 
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Nizz

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Cornballer said:
- There's a very early review of "Sons of Anarchy" season 4 on the Sepinwall/Fienberg podcast from last week. (11:00 - 20:30 of the podcast)

I don't think going to Ireland and relating back story for the club was an issue - I think the problem was spending half the season doing it while relegating the people back in Charming to lesser subplots. I'm hoping that groundwork pays dividends in some fashion as the next season unfolds.
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Agreed. Too much time was spent in Ireland. Another thing, I wonder if that female porn company director's death will ever be resolved? It seems like Tom Arnold's character had something to do with it.

Unless I completely missed/forgot it reaching a resolution?

Vox-Pop said:
A hair cut. :(
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Oh you. :)
 
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Cornballer

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- One more cast member of The Shield will guest star this season:
EW.com said:
Old fans of The Shield who have yet to sample FX’s powerful drama Sons of Anarchy may want to tune into the fourth season premiere on Sept. 6: Benito Martinez and David Rees Snell are appearing in multiple episodes!

Martinez (Capt. David Aceveda on The Shield) will play
a right-hand man in a Mexican cartel. He’ll show up in episode two.
Meanwhile, Snell — best known to Farmington followers as Ronnie — will depict
an ATF agent who’s helping to investigate SAMCRO. He’s featured in the premiere episode, which begins with the SAMCRO boys leaving the pokey.
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They got Ronnie, too!
 
DeSo

DeSo

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Fuck yeah Ronnie.

Season 3 was definitely a step down from the second but the last episode was pretty bad-ass.
 
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gdt

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I didn't think S3 was terrible, but it was certainly a step down. So much "almost there...but wait!" going on. The finale was excellent though. I'm still down for this show.
 
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