lives? The television show Sons of Anarchy is based on a fictional motorcycle gang but none of the characters would be caught dead using that term, they prefer the more modest term of a motorcycle “club” instead. The show focuses on Jackson “Jax” Teller the leading anti-hero who is the Vice President of the club, which was founded by his father and eight other Vietnam War veterans upon their return. The club takes up residence in a fictional northern California town called Charming, of which they
When Gemma’s first husband died suddenly she moved onto the clubs second in command Clay Morrow who took John Tellers place as president. Gemma’s ‘”Ol lady” (theexaminer.com-bikerchicks) status is where I started to notice that the Sons of Anarchy is repressive in its depiction of women. As Clays old lady Gemma was expected to welcome all aspects of the club, good or bad into her life and fully accept this in order to be a part of this lifestyle. As
As the final act of Kurt Sutter’s FX show Sons of Anarchy is set to begin tonight. The series finale poster depicts a dark Jax Teller, the main protagonist of the series, standing in black and white wielding his arms for the final act. Jax’s Sons of Anarchy club tattoo is replaced with a giant deathly skull that consumes his whole back to illustrate to the viewer of the poster that death will follow the final act of this series. Sutter, the creator of Sons of Anarchy, told New York Magazine on September
“A true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind,” reads Jackson (Jax) Teller, vice president of the Sons of Anarchy, from his father’s memoirs (1.3). The idea that violent criminals can be dark heroes – is the core reason why Sons of Anarchy attracted a diverse audience of four million total viewers for its Season Two premiere, with a little more than two million of those viewers being adults between the ages of 18 to 49 (Seidman). Keeping crime-family
Society today tends to fixate on and gravitate to television shows. Certain people even believe some of the families depicted on these shows are what a normal family should be. There are two types of television networks, broadcast and cable. Broadcast television stations are the channels that air for free, while cable you pay a subscription for. While television is a great platform for various issues and ideas, I believe that most broadcast television stations’ depictions do not accurately represent