Sons of Anarchy
on FX
By Christopher Gildemeister
September 21, 2012
Sons of Anarchy
has not changed. Now in its fifth season, the dark drama about a brutal,
drug-dealing, murderous biker gang continues to have explicit content which, to
be fair, is no worse than what has been seen in the past with this show. Of
course, it’s no better, either, as could be seen by a glance at last week’s fall
return. For continuing its depressing story glorifying the most savage criminal
elements of society, the September 11th season premiere of FX’s
Sons of Anarchy (10:00 p.m. ET) is the Worst Cable TV Show of the Week
The episode opens
with a scene of the biker club’s “den mother” Gemma graphically engaging in
sexual intercourse. As two other naked women lie nearby, Gemma kneels on all
fours, as a naked man thrusts into her from behind. The next morning, Gemma
awakens and pulls a gun on her host, a “Spic pimp” as Gemma puts it. “Yeah, an’
you’re a drunken cracker MILF,” the nude man replies. “I sucked your d*** too,
didn’t I?” Gemma continues. Eventually, the viewer learns that Gemma was so
intoxicated on pot and liquor that she has no memory of picking up this total
stranger or of having sex with him. In an unlikely happenstance, the two part as
friends, as though drunken, drug-fuelled foursomes are a casual, everyday
occurrence. (Perhaps they are, among those who frequent biker gangs…or Hollywood
parties.)
Meanwhile, other
club members have their own problems. Due to the lying machinations of Clay
(who, in addition to murdering the club’s founder and marrying Gemma, his widow,
also tried to kill his own daughter-in-law and her children), club member Tig
killed an innocent woman, the daughter of top crime boss Damon Pope, who also
controls the black street gang the “Niners.” As part of his revenge setup, Pope
has his henchmen lure club president Jax (Gemma’s son) to a meeting with the “Niners,”
only to have the “Niners’” new leader shot in the head – all the while plotting
to have Jax arrested. Pope’s revenge on Tig is even more brutal: he has Tig’s
daughter kidnapped, placed in a pit and doused with gasoline, whereupon Pope
deliberately sets the girl on fire, allowing her to burn to death before her
father’s eyes.
There is more,
but the twisted plotting is nearly impossible to follow, thus revealing a
notable truth: Sons of Anarchy is really nothing more than a glorified
soap opera for men – with gory violence, profanity, and rape in place of flowery
language and romance.
Media sources
touted the “success” of the season premiere, stating that Sons of Anarchy
drew 5.37 million viewers and 3.5 million adults 18-49. This begs the question:
if 3.5 million of the 5 million viewers were adults 18-49, what were the other
1.5? Were they all over 49? Certainly some were. But how many minors were
exposed to this program’s horrific content?
Of course, Sons
of Anarchy and shows like it would never be accessible to children, if the
entertainment industry believed in giving viewers the choice they deserve – the
right to pay for only those channels they actually want to watch. Instead, EVERY
cable and satellite TV subscriber is forced to pay for FX’s disgusting content –
which then comes into their homes, where their children are exposed to it.
For shoving
horrifying content into living rooms and requiring Americans to subsidize it,
FX’s Sons of Anarchy is the Worst Cable TV
Show of the Week.
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