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Production Companies: Fox 21, FX Network
Producers: Art Linson, John Linson, Kurt Sutter
Set in the fictional Northern California town of Charming, Sons of Anarchy follows the exploits of a hard-living motorcycle club who make their living through gun-running and other illegal and semi-legal enterprises. The bikers are portrayed both as sociopaths (“white trash thugs holding on to a dying dream,” according to the local deputy sheriff) and modern-day Robin Hoods protecting their town against worse threats, such as the meth-dealing skinhead gang the Nords and white separatists, The League of American Nationalists. The Sons, known colloquially as Samcro, are lead by Clay and his second-in-command stepson Jax. Other prominent Samcro bikers include the sexually-perverse Tig, business-minded Bobby and prospective member Half-Sack, named after a lost testicle from an Iraq roadside bomb. Clay’s wife and Jax’s mother, Gemma, runs things behind the scenes and is known as the “queen of the Bikers.”
Depictions of violence are frequent and explicit. The show features shootings, stabbings, and beatings; dead bodies crushed beneath cars; burned corpses; and a man killed by an axe to the head. In season one, Clay uses a cattle castration knife to cut off a rapist’s testicles, which are shown lying in a pool of blood. In the season two premiere, League members gang-rape and beat Gemma unconscious. Samcro biker Opie shoots a rival biker dead and mutilates his corpse by carving an anarchy symbol into bare flesh. Sex scenes include a female biker groupie stripping down to a bra and thong and straddling Jax. In season two, Samcro becomes partners in a hardcore pornography studio. There are frequent scenes of porn actors and actresses in only thongs and nipple coverings. Language includes multiple uses of “s***,” “ass****” and “douchebag” every episode.
Sons of Anarchy is not recommended for viewers under 18.
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