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TVGAF's #1 wish fulfilled - Sons of Anarchy spinoff series is in the works

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inm8num2

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http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/26/sons-anarchy-spinoff-mayans

After years of hinting that Sons might get a spin-off, EW has learned that series creator Kurt Sutter is now in the preliminary stages of developing a new show set in the Northern California motorcycle club scene.

Details about the project are scarce. In fact, we only know one thing for certain about the proposed storyline: The project focuses on the Mayans — the Oakland-based Hispanic MC gang that had quite a rocky history with SAMCRO across seven seasons. In the original series, the Mayans run heroin factories and are also involved in prostitution. Their cuts bear the legend “Los Asesinos de Dios” — Assassins of God.

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Sutter will executive produce the as-yet-untitled project, and is currently hunting for a showrunner to handle the Mayan’s day-to-day management.
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Deified Data

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You're fucking kidding me.

How FX didn't sour on Sutter after the last 2-3 seasons of Sons, I do not know.

Probably because the show continued to be fucking profitable against all logic.

Really not expecting much from The Bastard Executioner, either.
 
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Miles Quaritch

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It's dead, FX.

Just leave it alone and move on. No-one cares about the Mayans, hardly anyone cared about SamCro by the end. This is just a disaster waiting to happen.
 
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Deified Data

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Looking at it, Sutter won't actually be the showrunner - looks like he's shopping it to someone else. A tiny, tiny, miniscule sliver of hope emerges.
 
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Miles Quaritch

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Deified Data said:
Looking at it, Sutter won't actually be the showrunner - looks like he's shopping it to someone else. A tiny, tiny, miniscule sliver of hope emerges.
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The Mayans though? Hardly the most interesting bunch of bikers in the show. In fact, none of the biker gangs were particularly interesting on their own and were only bearable thanks to their interaction with SamCro.

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Will one of the members literally be named Jesus this time?
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Hehe.
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
I'll pass, thanks...

The FX drama slate is going to end up being 50% Kurt Sutter and Ryan Murphy shows. Blech.

At least there's still The Americans and Fargo. And FX is helping deliver that Taboo miniseries from Steven Knight and Tom Hardy.

Deified Data said:
You're fucking kidding me.

How FX didn't sour on Sutter after the last 2-3 seasons of Sons, I do not know.

Probably because the show continued to be fucking profitable against all logic.
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The logic is mass audiences have no problem watching dumb, violent shows.
 
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inm8num2

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xenist said:
The spin-off no one wanted.
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Nice to see you're still wearing that Barosky avatar. :)
 
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Miles Quaritch

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TM94 said:
Yet to start SoA, guessing it falls off pretty badly towards the end?
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More like towards the end of season 2.

Characters who should die stick for far too long, the excessive use of montages, characters who should stick around are killed off for shock value. Characters become more and more stupid with each passing season, stories become more and more stupid, the montages, the Irish accents, the montages.
 
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WyndhamPrice

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TM94 said:
Yet to start SoA, guessing it falls off pretty badly towards the end?
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It repeatedly doubles down on how important/groundbreaking/artful it thinks it is as it goes on which kind of makes it fascinating to watch all the way through.

The first 2 (maybe 3) seasons are legitimately fantastic, though.
 
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NumberTwo

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Yeah, no thanks. Those last few seasons of Sons were hard to get through. Characters lived on far longer than they should've and story threads went on far longer than they needed to.

I anticipate this will be as much an unguided mess.
 
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Deified Data

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Siegcram said:
literally no one asked for this
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The frustrating thing is the show remained wildly popular even during its downward decline - a lot of the dumb moments we hate were probably what attracted a large part of the show's latter audience. So I imagine tons of people were asking for this.
 
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TM94

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Miles Quaritch said:
More like towards the end of season 2.

Characters who should die stick for far too long, the excessive use of montages, characters who should stick around are killed off for shock value. Characters become more and more stupid with each passing season, stories become more and more stupid, the montages, the Irish accents, the montages.
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WyndhamPrice said:
It repeatedly doubles down on how important/groundbreaking/artful it thinks it is as it goes on which kind of makes it fascinating to watch all the way through.

The first 2 (maybe 3) seasons are legitimately fantastic, though.
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Thanks for the responses, I'll probably give it a shot.

7 seasons is a lot though, makes it less appealing.
 
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maxcriden

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TM94 said:
Thanks for the responses, I'll probably give it a shot.

7 seasons is a lot though, makes it less appealing.
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My two cents. There are so many other shows you may not have seen that are much more worthy of your time. I wish I could get back the time I spent watching 2.5 or so seasons of the show and reading about subsequent seasons.
 
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Dan

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TM94 said:
Yet to start SoA, guessing it falls off pretty badly towards the end?
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It falls off pretty quickly. The first two seasons might be worth watching. Then it's a downward spiral of self-indulgence and bloat.

xenist said:
Case in point, The Walking Dead.
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I wasn't going to say it ;)
Disclaimer: I quit after the season two premiere, couldn't tolerate the awful post-pilot writing.
 
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richardhawk

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Should have been about Jax' dad in the 60's / 70's to be honest. I'd be totally down with something like that despite hating SOA after the third season.
 
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I didn't like this show at all. The characters, story and macho bullshit. Surprised to see it was successful enough to get a spinoff.
 
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kirblar

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Deified Data said:
You're fucking kidding me.

How FX didn't sour on Sutter after the last 2-3 seasons of Sons, I do not know.

Probably because the show continued to be fucking profitable against all logic.

Really not expecting much from The Bastard Executioner, either.
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Walking Dead still gets stupid numbers.

Dexter's later season did too- people like their schlock.
 
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Fitts

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My girlfriend watched SoA when it aired. I only caught a few minutes here and there when getting ready for bed but never actually sat down to watch it with her.

The best term to describe the bits I've seen is "try-hard."
 
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styl3s

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The final season was the only truly bad season to me and it still remains as one of my favorite shows of all time so count me excited.
 
Good Guy Gone Bad

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Oh god no.

Season 3 onwards ruined the whole series for me... I can't actually believe I stuck with it for the full 7 seasons after that point. If I never see anything SoA related again, it'll be too soon.
 
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toastyToast

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Miles Quaritch said:
More like towards the end of season 2.

Characters who should die stick for far too long, the excessive use of montages, characters who should stick around are killed off for shock value. Characters become more and more stupid with each passing season, stories become more and more stupid, the montages, the Irish accents, the montages.
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Wait, so it gets worse than the Ireland season? I made it through that colossal waste of time then dropped it in season 4. I was meaning to get back
 
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120v

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i hated the way it ended. and the show annoyed me (can't get into which seasons i did/didn't like because they all kind of run together in my head - there wasn't a clear drop off point) ... but i watched the whole thing and mostly enjoyed it. a poor man's breaking bad

a spinoff with the mayan's sounds kinda eh on paper but it could work. i guess
 
Grizzlyjin

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
I never made it past the first episode, show just rubbed me the wrong way. Yeah. I should probably give it more of a chance, but I followed the final season thread. Sounds like a slog.

Not surprised FX is doing this. Show must have been doing well, I still see it promoted pretty prominently on the streaming apps. The people that I know personally who watch the show loved the final season so I guess it is a no brainer for FX.
 
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TarpitCarnivore

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Miles Quaritch said:
More like towards the end of season 2.

Characters who should die stick for far too long, the excessive use of montages, characters who should stick around are killed off for shock value. Characters become more and more stupid with each passing season, stories become more and more stupid, the montages, the Irish accents, the montages.
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"Guys, I promise. This is the last job" - Jax every episode

The season that was entirely in Ireland is when I gave up on the show.
 
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