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+Television | December 7, 2011

Sons of Anarchy Watch: To Be… or To Be Continued

By getting back to its roots this season, SOA proved it has a strong core story. But the often contrived twists of this finale suggest that that story needs to set an end date, not string itself out.

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+Movies | November 23, 2011

The Morning After: Defeat of Clay?

By James Poniewozik

Was last night’s stunning final scene a dramatic turning of a corner for Sons of Anarchy, or a holy-cow cliffhanger that seemed more definitive than it was?

+Television | November 9, 2011

The Morning After: Sons of Anarchy Chooses Sides

By James Poniewozik

At some point SOA had to choose whether it was going to be about bikers kicking ass together or about the fight for the soul of SAMCRO. In last night’s “Hands,” it chose—dramatically and, I hope, irrevocably

+Tuned In | September 7, 2011

The Morning After: Whatcha Going to Do When You Get Out of Jail?

By James Poniewozik

Yesterday I posted some advance thoughts about Sons of Anarchy‘s season four debut and about the path it’s taken in the three years leading up to it. No time for a long writeup of the premiere, “Out,” but here are a few things that I found encouraging about the first episode (I’ve been sent the [...]

+Tuned In | September 6, 2011

TV Tonight: Sons of Anarchy Goes Back to Cali

By James Poniewozik

The third season of Sons of Anarchy was, shall we say, divisive. The chief issue that divided fan from fan, critic from critic, and creator Kurt Sutter from people who criticized creator Kurt Sutter was the season’s long sojourn in Northern Ireland, where the abducted son of protagonist Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam) was spirited away [...]

+Uncategorized | August 16, 2011

TV Showrunners and Twitter: Too Much Exposure?

By James Poniewozik

Until recently, Kurt Sutter ran two ongoing shows: FX’s Sons of Anarchy and his Twitter feed. The former is a drama about the brutal lives of a California biker gang, entering its fourth season on FX this fall. The latter was Sutter’s unfiltered, or at least minimally filtered, stream of consciousness, about his show, the [...]

+Uncategorized | August 6, 2011

FX at TCA: More Louie, Wilfred, Philly. Less Pants.

By James Poniewozik

Saturday is my last day at TCA TV critics’ press tour in LA (my colleagues will have to soldier on without me for ABC’s final presentation), and the network of the day was FX, which updated us as to what’s going on in the worlds of tortured male antiheroes and raunchy comedy. Some of the [...]

+Uncategorized | December 1, 2010

Sons of Anarchy Watch: The Long Con

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for last night’s season finale of Sons of Anarchy coming up: “NS,” the final episode of season 3 of Sons of Anarchy, concluded with an elaborate switcheroo: a deftly handled, elaborate long con that upended expectations and reversed our perception of events startlingly. And I’m not talking about that con, the one that resolved [...]

+Uncategorized | November 17, 2010

Sons of Anarchy Watch: Blood Begets Blood

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for last night’s Sons of Anarchy coming up: The last image before the title sequence in “Bainne” is of blood spattered across a crucifix hanging on a wall: “Who do you think has to clean that up?” That, in a way—the religious imagery set aside—is the driving question of Sons of Anarchy. There is [...]

+Uncategorized | November 3, 2010

The Morning After: An Irish Lullaby

By James Poniewozik

The combination of a defective DVD screener and a night spent watching election coverage has put me an episode behind on Sons of Anarchy. But rather than make you wait, I thought this might be a good place to pause, four episodes from the end of season 3, and poll the Anarchites of Tuned Inland [...]

+Uncategorized | October 20, 2010

The Morning After: Mothers and Sons

By James Poniewozik

Brief Sons of Anarchy spoilers following: I’ll admit I’ve been a little lax on the Sons of Anarchy Watch this season, not that I haven’t been following it, but for a few other reasons: running out of time, between a front-loaded week on the blog and other deadlines; the fact that I’ve been watching episodes [...]

+Uncategorized | September 29, 2010

The Morning After: Wife and Sons

By James Poniewozik

Great news everybody! I had a really productive work day! Bad news, everybody! That work day did not include getting around in time to last night’s Sons of Anarchy or The Good Wife. Or to posting today’s The Morning After discussion post in the, um, morning. But so as not to make this a total [...]

+Uncategorized | September 15, 2010

Sons of Anarchy Watch: "I'm Helping Him Through It"

By James Poniewozik

Quick spoilers for last night’s Sons of Anarchy coming up: The end of season two of Sons of Anarchy took a sharp—if not unforeshadowed— turn with the abduction of Jax’s son, Abel, suddenly making the IRA the foregrounded Big Bad on the series. The second episode of season three, “Oiled,” continued to expand this new [...]

+Uncategorized | September 8, 2010

Sons of Anarchy Watch: Belfast and Furious

By James Poniewozik

Brief spoilers for the season three premiere of Sons of Anarchy after the jump:

+September 7, 2010

TV Tonight: Sons of Anarchy Restarts Its Engines

By James Poniewozik

The outstanding season 2 of Sons of Anarchy ended in a blaze of action: the SAMCRO motorcycle gang got revenge (of sorts) for the rape of matriarch Gemma (Katey Sagal) by the minions of a white-power group; Gemma herself went on the lam after being set up for murder; and protagonist Jax (Charlie Hunnam) was [...]

+Uncategorized | August 4, 2010

TCA Roundup: Special FX

By James Poniewozik

The Television Critics Association press tour usually has the assembled journalists peppering network executives with difficult, sometimes even hostile questions. But then there are networks like FX, which airs a roster of critical darlings. President John Landgraf took the stage yesterday and was greeted with questions about how much the network was going to add [...]

+Uncategorized | December 2, 2009