yay! SOA on hulu
okay, i am obsessed with this show. i dont know why. well, i know partly why. but i read a bad review today and i could see some of the points they were making. i think that most of the negative reviews, though, were written by people who only half watched the show. they all seem to be latching on to this “the new sopranos” BS and i dont know where it’s coming from. this isnt the sopranos at all, the similarity ends at the crime family. sons of anarchy is really the story of jax, who finds an unpublished manuscript written by his late father that seems to suggest that the crime empire direction the club is going in is not what he as a founder intended. okay, fine, it sounds totally far-fetched when i say it. but it really works! this is one of few shows ive seen that you dont immediately know whats going to happen as soon as a character opens its mouth. there arent obvious plot points dropped in every 5 minutes. the characters are really interesting and complex, even the small parts are fleshed out to a believable extent. reviewers have also been harping on this “hamlet” thing which in this case boils down to the fact that jax’s mother married his father’s best friend after the father dies. so, i am guessing at some point in the future we will find out that jax’s dad was murdered. but i probably wouldnt have made that conclusion if the reviews hadnt all insisted on this. there are a few other characters that if forced, i could place as characters in hamlet–laertes and polonius but it IS a little forced. it’s more like a greek tragedy than shakespeare, in my opinion.
whatever. katey sagal is so good in this, as are charlie hunnam (i would like to see him in everything from here on out), maggie siff, and the entire supporting cast. as the show goes on, though, im finding that im liking ron perlman less and less but i dont know if its because he is getting clunkier lines than the rest of the cast or what. he’s kind of up and down.
anyway–here’s the link. watch it.
