After
7 years of blazing glory Sons of Anarchy has now come to a steady stop. This
crime loving outlaw biker club drama is rarely one of the unique shows the TV
history have ever seeing and unquestionably cannot be compared with another
show due to it’s own terms. While it is nearly impossible to go in to every
detail of this brilliant show created by Kurt Sutter loosely based on the
characters of Hamlet in a short review such as this, I’m trying my best to give
credit to all the uniqueness it made us witness.
Being
said that I have no doubt that this is the most violently dramatic TV show the
world has seeing that actually made homage to outlaws, brotherhood, friends,
big American motorbikes, people of all colors and races, guns, gangsters,
prison mayhem, school shootings, eye popping like a pro with spoons,
retribution without a regret, all kinds of love including transsexuals, burying
up dead bodies and digging them up again, porno, baby snatchers from Ireland,
body parts in boxes, crooked cops, random acts of violence, dragging
handicapped people on streets tied to cars, mothers in laws killing daughter in
laws, sons killing step fathers, kids injuring them selves to frame
grandmothers and the list goes on. Though all this sounds so vicious and gory
Sons of Anarchy is mind splittingly perfect in its script and performances that
it was never felt neither irrelevant nor excessive. This obviously makes this show to shrink to a
certain set of devoted viewers and becomes completely inappropriate for the
masses. Which is the reason we didn’t see internet braking hype for Sons of
Anarchy in any year nor fans aggressively fought over it existence over a
different show. But the Sons of Anarchy fans held up their end of the bargain
and the creators gave their best to fans in return and it was wonderful.
Sons
of Anarchy was brilliant in its story telling. While some may call some seasons
silly and relatively uninteresting compared to a different season the flame
never went out. Sons of Anarchy is not a show that evolves over the seasons in
its drama. True it does up to a certain limit with it’s characters as they
evolve but each season was full of equal drama and tension that every time one
season ended it was almost like some great movie came to a holt giving the
promise of a sequel. For me I was hooked to Sons from day one to the finale
episode and boy it was a joy. Seeing all those gritty mind blowing performances
by the cast and how the whole plot elevated from episode to episode was truly a
wonderful experience. And the thing with Sons of Anarchy was that it was full
of energy and full of surprises and at one point I decided that I will not
guess what’s coming up but rather let the story take over me.
Sons
of Anarchy has won many awards including the Golden Globe for best performance
by an Actress in a Television Series (Katey Segal) which proves the quality of
acting it was equipped with. The cast was brilliant and though most of them saw
the other end of the barrel of a gun or the sharp side of a blade and went out
in a split second (most in completely unexpected ways in unexpected moments)
the body count didn’t mean that they were forgotten. We saw amazing
performances up to the last episode and some of them were the best the recent
TV has to offer. If the fans were haunted by the faces of the actors and
dropped a tear at their despair it was nothing to be amused of.
And
Sons of Anarchy will be largely memorable for it’s choice of music. Episode
after episode and at right times the sound tracks were mixed in a way that they
were completely aligned with the mood and story of the show. When I look back
at the set of beautiful music throughout these 7 years I have no doubt that
Sons of Anarchy delivered it so powerfully in par with the shows emotional
chemistry. For me I cannot think of Sons of Anarchy without its sound tracks
and I’m sure for many it will be equally memorable.
All
in all with fantastic writing and direction of Kurt Sutter as the creator of
the show Sons of Anarchy was one hell of a ride. These characters and the
ideology they represent will always be remembered though how cruel and violent
they were just because of the fact that this show made them all looked so
great. But the final message Kurt Sutter sends out so loud is that there is no
crime that goes unpunished and no lie that will not be revealed for it’s truth.
And if you believe in it Sons of Anarchy is a modern day tale of Karma
disguised in leather jackets. I will miss this show dearly and salute the creators
for making such amazing TV time.
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Creator
: Kurt Sutter
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