Seems like every week I’ve got a new post about the upcoming season of Sons of Anarchy, so I figure I’ll just continue to do a weekly post for the next month or so until the season premiere.
This week we’ve got a little inside scoop about the over all story arc:
According to Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam, friends tell him that FX’s headbanging outlaw motorcycle club series was the talk of the annual Sturgis Rally in South Dakota. Here’s some inside info on SOA from the cast and producers at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, California (with additional info gathered from a variety of sources including sutterink.com, the SOA myspace page and variety.com):
- Kurt Sutter has more or less a seven-season plan in mind for Sons of Anarchy, assuming that the largess of FX allows him to go on that long.
- The events of the season premiere will send one character on an unexpected spiritual journey.
- Per Kurt Sutter, Opie (Ryan Hurst) is ”a guy who needs a task,” and he’ll actually recommit himself to Clay this season, which plays into Jax’s arc this season.
- Maggie Siff revealed that high school acquaintances/friends Opie and Tara finally share a scene this season.
- Ron Perlman has finally mastered motorcycle riding and during one episode, which is largely set on the road, he was able to be in every single shot.
- Big Otto (the imprisoned club member played by Kurt Sutter) will appear several times this season.
- Tara and Gemma (Katey Sagal) will be drawing closer this season, but oddly enough, Jax and Gemma haven’t had many scenes together this season.
- Regarding the new white supremacist separatist character, Adam Arkin declares he is the “conceptual artist” in charge of violence; Henry Rollins does the actual skull crushing. Rollins promises that punches will not be pulled—you will see the aggression onscreen, live and bloody.
- Rollins says that his character’s, A.J. Weston, only redeeming quality is that he loves his children.
- Tom Arnold will be showing up in some sort of recurring role.
- There is a “horrible event” that happens to one of the crew on the season premiere. Jennifer Godwin, over at E-online wondered if it would turn away fans. It’ll rock folks a bit, in a good way, but if they stick around, they’ll see that it wasn’t gratuitous and that it indeed fuels the emotional engine of the season.
- Jax fans should be more than happy to see a buck-nekkid Charlie Hunnam in a shower scene toward the end of the season-two premiere, with his character sporting a new tattoo with the name of another character on the show.
- Sons of Anarchy season two premieres Sept. 8 at 10 p.m. on FX.
photo by D. Craig Harris (follow him on Twitter @d_craig_harris)
Until next week!