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Sons of Anarchy - Season 6 - Tuesdays on FX
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johnny_park
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FUCK UNSER AND GEMMA!!! As soon as Unser told Gemma I knew they were going to kill off Tara. From that part on I was standing and yelling at my tv "You better not kill her!!!".
MadOdorMachine
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The show's been repeating the death of Opie's wife ad nauseum for a long time. With diminishing returns.
Escape Goat
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Damn, Tara got pork roasted.
brianjones
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gemma is the most loathsome character ever
and juice.. unser?
these characters are so stupid and pathetic
and juice.. unser?
these characters are so stupid and pathetic
sleeprockss
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I don't understand this argument. The message for the past two seasons has been power corrupts and now it's time for Jax to face the repercussions. SOA is definitely ham fisted in the way it brings across it's message but it still has one. Whoever has been reviewing this season of SOA on AV Club has been saying that they don't understand why Sutter is glorifying the club but if anything this finale disproves that. It seems like they were just so dead set on their opinions regarding Sutter's intentions with the show that they wouldn't change them no matter what happens.
The problem is that the show still goes into fanboy "oh look how cool this is" mode for the action and stuff. It's working at cross-purposes with the "this thing is corrupting everything it touches" moral at work.
lazybones18
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Chibs? Bobby?
mercenar1e
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The only surprise to come out from this season is the number of deals the district attorney was offering.. (The deal is right) It felt like with every episode came a new/altered deal followed by Gemma being the only one to say that Tara needed to die. Did anything happen with the dead Persian Tig threw in the water? I can't wait for the show/story to be over
sleeprockss
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That is my main problem with Sutter, he can build up to some really great moments when need be (last half of the shield and most of season 4 of SOA) but the craziness he brings can take away the impact of those scenes. I can see why it completely gets in the way of peoples enjoyment of scenes, but I don't think that Happy gleefully shooting Lin after he is dead is as important as Jax's wife getting killed due to his actions.
I think Sutter is at his best when someone is reigning him in. Some of the best moments from The Shield come from Sutter and he can be a great storyteller. The problem is that he almost always is trying to be edgy such as the way in which Tara died and almost every single jail scene this season.
Dominican Power
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Sutter is so fucking predictable. One of the worst TV deaths...ever.
Dreams-Visions
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This fucking show.
How will that gun be used against Jax...
I don't put it past her to falsify evidence at this point. She's too angry and too thirsty.
How will that gun be used against Jax...
I don't put it past her to falsify evidence at this point. She's too angry and too thirsty.
Ugh, well those last 15 minutes were fucking infuriating. The least they could have done was have Juice execute Gemma right there. Fuck Gemma, fuck Juice, fuck Unser, fuck all of these people for being idiots so that this stupid incident could be contrived to happen.
Ugh. None of this is even interesting. It's just dumb. Tara gets killed because Unser's a gossip jumping to conclusions and falls for Gemma's obvious ploy, while everyone involved is incapable of communicating with anyone. The closest way this falls on Jax is that he's a moron for not locking down Gemma the minute this plan was settled upon, given her blatantly psycho history with Tara.
Ugh. None of this is even interesting. It's just dumb. Tara gets killed because Unser's a gossip jumping to conclusions and falls for Gemma's obvious ploy, while everyone involved is incapable of communicating with anyone. The closest way this falls on Jax is that he's a moron for not locking down Gemma the minute this plan was settled upon, given her blatantly psycho history with Tara.
Dreams-Visions
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Volatile as she's always been, I don't recall her ever killing someone with her bare hands. Even if she did, Jax was never privy to it to have thought she'd be capable of such a thing. Considering she shouldn't have even known what was going down (he certainly didn't tell her), there wasn't much reason to proactively seek her out and address her. She would have probably tried to talk him out of it so I can imagine him wanting to avoid her.
She's always been a lot of talk, but goddamn. She wasn't havin it.
Dominican Power
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I know this awful but it had to happen to Jax. He's done too much to receive any type of happines and/or joy in his life.
Dreams-Visions
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I found it interesting that Opie was his "true north", when Tara was the most "true north" anyone could have been in his life. She knew they needed to get out and he agreed. Unfortunately, it seemed the gravitational pull of that fucking club was too much for him and getting out was an impossibility.
She really did sacrifice everything trying to protect, save, and help him and his club. She got nothing but fear, loathing, a lost career, and a lost life out of the deal. Oh and a couple of now motherless children which was exactly what she was afraid the club would do to her family in the first fucking place. She was always his true north, telling the truth while trying to pull him out of that hot shit.
She coulda been anywhere else saving kids in hospitals.
Eh, Jax is fully aware that Gemma attacked Tara and the admin earlier this season because of a perceived threat to membership in the family. Jax may not know the worst of it, but he's still very aware that Gemma is an absolute fucking nightmare when it comes to family. When you've got someone crazy like that, who's heavily invested in a part of your life that you're about to make a massive change in, you probably want to control the way in which that person learns about it. Shit, Jax took the initiative to tell Bukowski face-t-face that the Mayans were expanding into Stockton. "I wanted you to hear it from me." Yet he didn't tell his mother that he'd be handing himself over to the authorities to protect Tara and the club.
It doesn't really matter, the whole sequence of events is absurdly dumb. A comedy of errors.
Vert boil
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chris121580
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I completely agree with all of this. Such a fucked up situation. She had already stuck around longer than she should have
dave is ok
aztek is ok
The big moments on this show are handled so clumsily. I don't feel any impact watching major characters die because the plot contrivances and character motivations used to get to that point make no fucking sense.
Sidenote: Who leaves a sink full of water like that?
Sidenote: Who leaves a sink full of water like that?
Cornballer
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Escape Goat
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I think a "Hey, look at that distracty thing over there!" and then she runs away would have been more honest, less insulting to the audience.
Go home AV Club, you're drunk.
Seriously, what an abysmal review. Cannot disagree more, which is strange as I have generally found them to be on point this season. It maybe that since I'm not watching it live the longer run-time isn't such a bother to me like it is to the reviewer, but even then all the other points are bad. In the end I felt it was a very good finale of one of the best seasons so far, despite a number of mishaps along the way. Yes, it was yet another opportunity missed to kill off some of the more useless characters in Juice and Gemma, but if they are used to good effect next season then who cares? Clay had a great little arc this season even if he should have died.
Would also like to point out that
Cornballer
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Have you taken the time to watch the episode yet?
It is kurt said in his last wtf sutter podcast , the next series is the last series
I was numb when Gemma killed Tara. The buildup ensured that.
But when Jax walked into the house and saw her...the way he cradled her and said, "I'm sorry..." T__T
Gemma needs to die next season by Jax or Nero hopefully. Screw Unser, I would say kill him too but he's got cancer so.....die slow old man. And freaking Juice, I used to pull for you to work this shit out bud but I hope the club finds out, burn your tattoos off and send you off to see Mr. MAYHEM.
I'm only watching this show now for Nero and Happy. Why, why did it have to be Tara.
I'm only watching this show now for Nero and Happy. Why, why did it have to be Tara.
chris121580
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Him and Katey were fantastic all season long. The actress who plays Tara is hit or miss but she did a great job when talking to Jax at the park
dead souls
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Blech, not a very good finale. I know it'll never happen but someone at FX needs to stand up to Sutter and tell him he needs to deliver hourlong episodes with an occasional 90 minute one. There was at least 25-30 minutes that could have been cut from the running time last night and nothing of value would have been lost.
blackaroni
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She's the most random thing on the show. I would rather seeing her walk around every now and then than know anything about her daughter. Nothing about this homeless makes any sense.
Agreed. Honestly, that entire first hour could have been scrapped.
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