South City Confidential

New Television Addiction

You may have noticed that recently all I do is bitch about the fact that I feel shitty but I’M NOT PREGNANT.  And I’m not pregnant.  But because I felt shitty yesterday and seriously couldn’t do much but lay and bed and wait for the nausea to pass (it didn’t for about eight hours), I decided to start watching FX’s show Sons of Anarchy because I had heard good things and it completely slipped under my radar. If you are a fan of The Sopranos or Deadwood, you should watch this show.  Let me present my argument in convenient-to-read list form, favorite of rushed bloggers everywhere.

Reasons Why You Should Watch Sons of Anarchy

1. Premise: it’s a Hamlet allegory set in a Northern California motorcycle gang.
2. It starts Katey Segal as Jemma, the ass-kickin’ old lady of the president of the motorcycle gang.  She’s totally a badass, and I love seeing her in dramatic roles since she’s always be Peg Bundy to me.
3. It costars many “Hey! It’s That Guy!”s and gals from other shows, including Dayton Callie, AKA Deadwood‘s Charlie Utter.  3.a  Half the actors are British, Scottish, or Irish, which will undoubtedly make seeing interviews with any of them more entertaining because hearing them not speak in an American accent makes their American accent more awesome.
4. The Hamlet character, Jax, looks pretty much exactly like Heath Ledger when he had long hair.
5. Great characters, very interesting premise, mostly-realistic plots.  It’s addictive.
6. You can use it to justify getting a new tattoo.

Fair warning: like both The Sopranos or Deadwood, this show is violent, and word from the curb is that I haven’t seen even the half of it. And I saw (well, heard, because I was too chickenshit to watch) a dude get his balls cut off, so that’s telling you something.  ON THE SHOW.  Not in real life.  I have not seen a guy get his balls cut off in real life.

I’m a little over halfway through Season 1, and I’ve spent the past two days scouring the internet for free online versions, much like a junkie scours their house for a fix hidden away in a drawer somewhere.  I CAN STOP AT ANY TIME.

I highly recommend you put Season 1 on your Netflix list for the upcoming holiday rerun season.

KBO posted this article under Uncategorized on Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 5:15 pm You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS feed. You can leave a comment or trackback from your own site.