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Sons of Anarchy
Sons of Anarchy is an American crime drama television series created by Kurt Sutter that aired from 2008 to 2014.
It follows the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in California's Central Valley.
The show stars Charlie Hunnam as Jackson "Jax" Teller, who is initially the vice president and subsequently the president of the club.
He soon begins to question the club and himself. Brotherhood, loyalty and redemption are constant themes. Sons of Anarchy premiered on September 3,
2008, on cable network FX. The series's third season attracted an average of 4.9 million weekly viewers, making it FX's highest rated series
and surpassing its other hits The Shield, Nip/Tuck and Rescue Me. Season four
and five premieres were the two highest-rated telecasts in FX's history. The sixth season aired from September 10, 2013, through December 10, 2013.
The seventh and final season of the series premiered on September 9, 2014. The series finale premiered on December 9, 2014.
This series explores vigilantism, government corruption and racism, and depicts an outlaw motorcycle club as an analogy for human transformation.
The real life Oakland Hells Angel David Labrava served as a technical advisers, and also played one of the main characters, Happy Lowman,
the club's assassin. On November 2013, Sutter indicated that he was in talks with FX to make a Sons of Anarchy prequel set in the 1960s.
In February 2015, he said he would not work on the prequel, which is likely to be titled "The First 9". In November 2016,
FX announced the development of a spin-off series Mayans MC that will be centered around Latino culture.
Series overview
Each season involves parallel plot lines that intertwine and overlap, centering on both the personal and family life of Jackson "Jax" Teller
and on SAMCRO. SAMCRO is involved with gun-running in the western United States, and deals with rival gangs, politicians and the authorities.
As vice president and later president of SAMCRO, Jax struggles to manage the club and the legacy of its founder, his late father John Teller.
SAMCRO is said to resemble the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club; the series includes appearances from David Labrava, Chuck Zito, Rusty Coones,
and Sonny Barger who are real Hells Angels members.
Season 1 (2008)
The series begins with the destruction of a warehouse the club uses to store and assemble guns, which is their main source of income,
by a rival MC right before the overdose of Jax's Methamphetamine-addicted ex-wife Wendy. An emergency C-section is performed,
and their son Abel is delivered ten weeks prematurely. Jax finds his father's memoirs when he visits a storage unit to collect some old baby clothes.
John Teller, Jax's father, was one of the founders of SAMCRO, and the book describes his trials with and hopes for the club. Jax's mother,
Gemma Teller-Morrow, is now married to the President of SAMCRO, Clay Morrow. Jax's best friend Opie has just been released from prison
for serving time for a club-related crime. The first season deals with Jax trying to reconcile things happening to the club
with what he reads in his father's memoirs, Opie trying to take a lesser role in the club, and local and federal law enforcement trying
to shut down SAMCRO.
Season 2 (2009)
White separatists called the League of American Nationalists arrive in Charming. LOAN's leader Ethan Zobelle and Zobelle's enforcer, A.J. Weston,
seek to drive the Sons of Anarchy from Charming. To send a message to SAMCRO, Zobelle orchestrates to have Gemma kidnapped and gang raped by Weston
and two others. Due to the improper handling of an internal problem, the rift between Clay and Jax continues
to widen as Jax challenges most of Clay's decisions and comes to a head when a lone car bomb nearly kills another member of SAMCRO.
The second season sees SAMCRO battling LOAN for control of Charming, Jax and Clay veering further apart in their individual visions for the club,
and evading the ever-present threat of the ATF.
Season 3 (2010)
Gemma has been hiding in Rogue River, Oregon with Tig at the home of Gemma's father, Nate, who suffers from dementia. Gemma struggles
when she takes Nate to his new assisted living home, and he pleads to be taken back to his house. She returns to Charming to reunite
with her grandson, unaware he has been kidnapped. The return of A.T.F. agent Stahl twists the facts about the murder of Donna, Stahl attempts
to make a deal with Jax behind the club's back. Father Kellan Ashby's sister, Maureen, contacts Gemma at Ashby's request
and tells her Abel is safe in Belfast. Upon learning of her grandson's abduction, Gemma suffers a cardiac arrhythmia
and collapses in the Teller-Morrow lot. After the club returns from Ireland and brings home Abel, agent Stahl double crosses Jax
and tells the club about the side deal Jax made with her, unaware that Jax
and the club had it planned all along knowing Stahl would back out of the deal. Jax, Clay, Bobby, Tig, Juice and Happy are hauled away to jail.
While Opie, Chibbs, and the Prospects are all en route following Stahl. Opie kills Stahl to avenge the death of his wife, Donna.
Season 4 (2011)
The imprisoned SAMCRO members leave the penitentiary after their 14-month stay and are met
by Lieutenant Eli Roosevelt of the San Joaquin Sheriff's Department, the new law enforcement presence in Charming.
They also discover Hale has become the mayor. US Attorney Lincoln Potter seeks Lieutenant Roosevelt's help to build a RICO case against SAMCRO.
Season 5 (2012)
In retaliation for the death of Veronica Pope, the Niners attack SAMCRO and ambush a cargo shipment. With the death of Piney Winston
and the growing conflict between the Niners and SAMCRO, along with several home invasions targeting people linked to the Club, Jax is forced to meet
with Damon Pope, to face a new threat unlike anything SAMCRO has ever faced.
Season 6 (2013)
Following the arrest of Tara and Clay, Jax struggles to hold SAMCRO together while Tara is imprisoned. Toric approaches both Tara and Clay
and offers them deals in exchange for giving up SAMCRO; both initially refuse, but Clay later relents when confronted
with being thrown into the prison's general population and assuredly being killed by inmates paid off by Damon Pope's men as a retaliation
for Pope's murder. Juice returns to Charming after helping Bobby relocate after stepping down as VP, which angers Chibs,
who doesn't believe Juice has been punished enough for talking to cops and later beats him. With the growing romance between Gemma and Nero,
the death of Clay Morrow, and death of Tara, the tables get turned and club starts to go in a new darker direction.
Season 7 (2014)
Jax struggles with his recent loss and turns himself in to the authorities. While in jail,
Jax makes decisions that radically alter the direction of the club and uses it to exact revenge. Another member's death fuels the hate
and lies created by Gemma and Juice, who are on the run and hiding from the club. After Jax learns the truth, he works to make things right
with all parties involved. The series ends with Jax making the ultimate sacrifice to complete his part of the story of SAMCRO
and fulfill his father's vision.
Concept
The Sons of Anarchy is an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States as well as overseas. The show focuses on the original
and founding charter, Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, referred to by the acronym SAMCRO or Sam Crow,
located in the fictional town of Charming, California, adjacent to the Teller-Morrow auto mechanic shop.
Its nickname is reflected in the original title for the show, Forever Sam Crow. Led by President Clay Morrow, the club 'protects'
and controls Charming through close community relationships, bribery, and violent intimidation. In the early seasons they are vehement about keeping
"hard" drugs and drug dealers out of Charming. They also do not tolerate sex criminals. The club's leadership are supporters of the IRA.
SAMCRO founders
John Teller and Piermont "Piney" Winston co-founded SAMCRO in 1967 on returning from the Vietnam War. When John's wife Gemma becomes pregnant
with their second son, Jackson, they settle in Gemma's hometown of Charming. Six of the "Redwood Original 9", or "First 9",
members were Vietnam vets, with only Lenny Janowitz alive at the end of the series.
SAMCRO attire
Club members wear vests known as kuttes. The SOA patch on the back is a Grim Reaper holding a crystal ball with the Anarchist circle-A symbol,
and wielding the Reaper's traditional scythe, the handle of which has been replaced by the M16 rifle that the founders wielded in Vietnam.
Only full members can wear the "patch". Other smaller patches have specific meanings, such as "Men of Mayhem" worn
by club members who have spilled blood on the club's behalf, "First 9", worn by the original nine members, and those
for the President/Vice President/Sergeant at Arms/Secretary. Kelli Jones was the costume designer for all the seasons. Due to its popularity,
replicas of the vests, with the same style of top pockets, zips and button clasps, have become popular on various auction sites.
Vehicles
The Sons ride customised Harley-Davidson Dyna motorcycles. Each rider customises his own bike to his individual style; however,
they all paint their bikes black and most sport T-bar style handlebars. A patchholder's bike usually sports the Sons of Anarchy letters,
the club's Grim Reaper logo, or the circled "A" club logo. In later seasons, several members switch to more touring-oriented models. For instance,
Jax is often seen on a Street Glide. Prospects are not permitted to paint their bikes black until they get patched in.
Jax is also seen driving a silver Dodge Ram 1500 throughout the show. His mother is usually seen driving a Cadillac XLR-V and an Escalade.
Later in Season 6 she is seen driving a Lincoln Navigator. Throughout season 7 Jax is seen refurbishing his father's bike,
a stock 1946 Harley Davidson, equipped with the correct Knucklehead motor and hardtail cradle frame.
The bike which he rides in the Season 7 finale's last scenes is fitted with an Evolution motor, and late-model swing arm frame.
The Mayans MC also ride Harley Davidson motorcycles. The biggest difference between their bikes and the Sons' lies in ape hanger bars,
fender skirts and bikes of all colors. Nero Padilla errs when referring to the year of his blue Impala SS. While he mentions the
"lack of child safety features in 1964", it is actually a 1963 Impala SS.
Activities and affiliates
Some members have day jobs in local industries; most work at the Teller-Morrow garage as mechanics, but they primarily make money
by illegally importing weapons and selling them to various gangs, and making protection runs for local businesses
by defending valuable truck shipments against hijacking. During Season 4 they start to mule cocaine for the Galindo cartel in exchange for cash
and protection. In later seasons they manage a porn studio and an escort business, both legitimately. SAMCRO keeps meth traffickers
and drug dealers out of Charming, which puts them at odds with the meth-distributing white supremacist Nordics , headed by Ernest Darby.
This earns them respect and admiration from the townspeople, who believe the Sons do more to protect their town than its own police. SAMCRO also has
to deal with a rival, Oakland-based motorcycle club, the Mayans led by Marcus Alvarez.
Other groups in SAMCRO's orbit include the San Francisco–based Chinese mafia Lin Triad, led by Henry Lin; the Italian American Cacuzza crime family;
the Russian mob led by Viktor Putlova; the Real IRA  of Ireland, which supplies them with illegal Russian-made guns; the "One-Niners",
an African American street gang to whom SAMCRO sell weapons; and various affiliates in the state prison system,
where many members of the club have been incarcerated at one time or another. These gangs serve important roles in either being enemies of the clubs
or soon to be partners with the MC to bring in more money.
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