Review: Sons of Anarchy on FX

by Crystal Canole

I am a huge fan of Sons of Anarchy.  This is a TV series that is in its third season and airs on FX on Tuesdays at 10PM.  This show is about a motorcycle gang from a small town called Charming.  The first two seasons were amazing but the third season has not been as good.

The first season had lots of different stories going on and was very exciting and different.  Not one time did I know what was going to happen or anticipate something.  Jax killed Tara's ATF ex-boyfriend.  Jax became a father.  Opie and Bobby assassinated someone and a witness was left.  Opie was made to look like a rat.  Clay ordered him dead, but instead Tig shoot Donna, Opies wife.  In the end Jax was left with a nasty taste in his mouth and did not like being under the rule of Clay. 

Season 2 started with the introduction of a new problem, the White Supremacists.  Zobel is the leader of this group and orders for Gemma to be kidnapped and gang rapped to send a message to SAMCRO.  Gemma remains silent so the club never knows.  SAMCRO gets in to the pornography industry to help out an old members old lady.  The porn business is burned down and Jax thinks Clay did it so he decides to go nomad.  Before this can happen Gemma tells Clay and Jax what happened to her so that the club can be reunited.    The season ends with the Irish, Cameron, stealing Abel and killing Half-Sock because he thought the sons were the ones that killed his son. 

Season 3 starts with them trying to find Abel.  Gemma is hiding out at her fathers because ATF Stahl is trying to pin the murder of Cameron's son on her.  Gemma eventually misses her boys so she drives home to learn that her grandson, Abel was kidnapped.  She gets a call from Belfast and the MC goes to Ireland.  The contact the priest who says Jax can have his boy if he proves Jimmy is against the IRA.  Jax finds his son but lets him go to have a better life.  Jimmy steals Abel and uses him as a ticket out of Ireland.  Jax gets his son in the end, but finds out that Tara has been kidnapped. 

The third season does not seem like there is as many story lines going on.  I assumed that it would be one of the last shows before the end of the season when they got Abel back.  I knew that lady was Jax's sister.  I knew that the business man trying to protect Charming PD was no good before they showed it.  This season is still very good and worth watching, do not get me wrong, but it just does not have that spark like the last two seasons.