I've started to watch Sons of Anarchy on Prime Video. I realize it's on old show, but I'm just now getting around to seeing it.

I'm about 9 episodes in, and I'm finding that parts of it are good, but there's the other part of the production and story that seem less than stellar. Fluff typical of a somewhat lower budget production.

Honestly, the attraction for me is simply the fact that it's based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. The connection if obvious, and well done IMHO. I've not yet gotten to the part about what really happened to Jax' father, but if the story sticks with the hamlet theme, then the outcome will be obvious.

but what are your thoughts about the show???

Question:
Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Choices:
Thumbs up -- great show.
I'm Neutral on the show. I stuck with it, but there's better.
Thumbs down -- time is better spent watching something else
No seen it, but I wanted to vote anyway.

 

It started strong but went on too long for its own good. It severely lagged around Season 4 or 5 but picked up again in the last couple seasons only to come to a rather anticlimactic finale.

It was a great show, then good show then it was time to move on.
Worth the watch though.

quote:

Originally posted by Orguss:
It started strong but went on too long for its own good. It severely lagged around Season 4 or 5 but picked up again in the last couple seasons only to come to a rather anticlimactic finale.

It definitely dragged on too many seasons and the ending was epically lame IMO.

Wifey called it Pussy Bikers...

quote:

Originally posted by Orguss:
It started strong but went on too long for its own good. It severely lagged around Season 4 or 5 but picked up again in the last couple seasons only to come to a rather anticlimactic finale.

This is a perfect sum up. The last season or two I was just watching to see how they ended it. It started out good, and then sort of just drifted around.

Chasing a baby around Ireland is when they jumped the shark.

quote:

Originally posted by ryan81986:
Chasing a baby around Ireland is when they jumped the shark.

This, what a stupid season.

I binge watched it on prime. I slept through a good portion of it.

And right now in my head, the story is mixed up with episodes of The Devil's Ride.

I watched it when it was on. Enjoyed it for the most part. Some story lines just seemed out of place at the time. All in all I did enjoy it.

It's flawed, but enjoyable.

I liked it for the most part, but after a while they just ran out of people to kill. For me, when Opie and Tara were killed off, the show was just not as good.

Watched the first season and maybe part of the second but it started getting dumb so I quit.

quote:

Originally posted by Abn556:
I liked it for the most part, but after a while they just ran out of people to kill. For me, when Opie and Tara were killed off, the show was just not as good.

Their deaths came so late in the timeframe of the show, though. I will say that killing Opie's wife changed the dynamic of the show, though.

quote:

Originally posted by Orguss:
It started strong but went on too long for its own good. It severely lagged around Season 4

Which is when I bailed on it.

There are better options.

First couple seasons were good, then it fell off rapidly.

I watched it all just to close it out, but I wished about 5 episodes to the end that Jax and his crew happened upon Jones and some of the other legal pistoleros on the forum - and were gunned down in about 7.5 seconds.

Guys, please for the sake of the person who started this thread, watch it with the SPOILERS.

Love the first two seasons. Season 3 dragged a bit but the finale is awesome. In my world the show ends either with the 3rd season finale or the first episode of 4. It goes off the rails for me after that. I watchd it to the end, but i wasnt happy about it.

"Awesome" is not a word I would have ever used for the finale. I thought it was weak, at best.

I enjoyed the first few seasons as a man about the same age as the main character, also becoming a father for the first time and trying to make sense of my relationship with my old man. That was the hook for me. When it wasn't anymore, it was simply because I was far enough in that I wanted to see how it ended.

However, the last few seasons were a real slog, and I ended up not caring about really any of the characters anymore several seasons before the finale because I realized they were all horrible, shitty people who made horrible, shitty decisions at exactly every turn, and were at their best when they were doing horrible, shitty things to the people closest to them.

And, this is only so spoilerific, but I got real tired of the amount of man-on-man assrape that I had to witness seemingly every episode towards the end, sometimes several assrapes an episode. If someone had told me how much chuff-pounding I would have had to endure to make it through the show, I might've opted out at the start. JMO

Watched the full series, like most it starts ok, gets better, acting and writing improve, you jump a shark, then it becomes obvious it's time to end it.


Still a good show overall, and yes the Ireland segment gave us a reason to use CC because none of us could understand a fookin word....