Sutter was Big Otto eh? Pretty cool. And, I can't view the episode anymore. I'm not joining hulu. I may buy it from i tunes.
Fun Fact #1 - Big Otto Delaney is in fact the mad genius himself and husband of Katey Sagal, Kurt Sutter. You'll see him quite a bit more in season 2.
Fun Fact #2 - Kurt and Katey had a son together a couple years back and named him Jackson. Wonder where the name Jax came from......
Fun Fact #3 - Ally Walker who plays Agent June Stahl is actually married to the president of FX, John Landsgraf. How much do you think Kurt enjoyed bouncing his boss' wife's head off that table?
What with the end of the TV season, the series finale of "Lost" and the start of summer programming, things have been really busy the last few weeks. So busy, in fact, that I haven't been able to share much from my May trip to the set of "Sons of Anarchy."
Finally, I've got time to write up what I learned on that visit, which was, alas, too brief (and also may have occurred on the wrong day. The next day's call sheet made reference to a "porn party" scene. Would that have been more exciting than see SAMCRO's lawyer talk legal strategy with the guys? Now I'll never know!)
In any case, I'll be posting interviews from the show's cast and a long conversation with "Sons" creator Kurt Sutter close to the Season 3 premiere date in September, but casting information and some thoughts from Sutter about the general direction of the season follow. This post also has the first photos from the third season of the FX drama.
(I've tried to be judicious about what I've revealed about Season 3, and I've tried not to make this post too spoiler-heavy. In my opinion, what follows are Season 3 teasers, or appetizers, if you will. If you want to remain 100 percent spoiler-free for Season 3, stop reading now. If you don't mind seeing some casting news, read the first half of the bullet points below. The second half of this list contains some fairly general plot information).
Sons of anarchy First, a few "Sons" factoids:
* Season 3 will premiere on "a Tuesday in early September." That's all FX would say about the date, but I'm going to go ahead and speculate that Season 3 arrives Sept. 7. I could be wrong, but that's my guess.
* Lots of "Deadwood" veterans in Charming these days. Dayton Callie (a.k.a. "Deadwood's" Charlie Utter), who plays Sheriff Wayne Unser on "Sons," has been made a series regular this year.
* Robin Weigert, who played Calamity Jane on "Deadwood," has a recurring role this year as the Sons' lawyer.
* Taryn Manning, who played Cherry in Season 1, will be back for three episodes this year.
* Agent June Stahl (Ally Walker) will be back for four or five Season 3 episodes.
* As previously announced, Hal Holbrook will have a recurring role as Gemma's father, Nate Madock. Sutter said Holbrook would be in the first four episodes of the season and possibly one more later on.
* Also previously announced: Kenneth Johnson (a.k.a. Lem from "The Shield") will be back as Kozik, a Sons of Anarchy biker from the Tacoma chapter. Will we ever find out what his beef with Tig is about? Sutter: "We're toying with the idea that maybe we never say what it is."
* Stephen King has a cameo in Episode 3 of the new season.
* Fun fact about Paula Malcolmson (another "Deadwood" veteran), who is in eight Season 3 episodes as the matriarch of the Sons of Anarchy outpost in Belfast: The actress grew up in that city. I had no idea she was from Northern Ireland -- her American accent is flawless.
* Titus Welliver, whose family also has roots in Belfast, will be back for eight episodes as the intimidating Jimmy O'Phelan.
* Also filling out the roster of the "Sam Bell" (Sons of Anarchy Belfast) crew are UK actors James Cosmo (Sutter calls the priest that Cosmo plays the "Tom Hagen character"), Andrew McFee (as Belfast chapter president Kevin McGee), Ari Verveen (as Belfast Sergeant at Arms Liam O'Neill) and Zoe Boyle (as Maureen's daughter, Trinity).
* As noted yesterday, the "Sons of Anarchy" will be rolling into San Diego for this year's Comic-Con festivities.
OK, what follows is a little more plot-centric. You may want to check out now if you don't want to know more about the overall direction of the Season 3 story.
* What you may have gathered from the bullet points above is that the Belfast story line is very important this season, which isn't that surprising, given that Season 2 ended with True IRA operative Cameron Hayes abducting Jax's son, Abel. And as Sutter explained on his blog, John Teller set up an outpost of Sons of Anarchy in Belfast decades earlier, so the links between Belfast and Charming have been there for some time.
* According to Sutter, the show has "dual [Belfast-Charming] story lines from the jump" and the two plots will converge deeply a few episodes into Season 3. "I think we've earned it," he said. "I think people are invested enough in the characters and the world to where they’re open to getting backstory about [SAMCRO co-founder and Jax's father] John Teller and about this world."
* The Belfast story line is so crucial that the show will shoot second-unit material there twice during the course of Season 3 production, and the show's crew has also constructed an outdoor Belfast street a block away from the show's main Los Angeles set. Several indoor sets for the Belfast scenes have also been built in L.A.
* "I’m not out to make some sort of political statement about the IRA and Northern Ireland and the Loyalists and Republic," Sutter said. "To me, it’s like the [American] outlaw community is in the show -- it’s backdrop. It’s really this conflict between these two men [i.e., Jimmy O and the priest]... They are living outside the box and it’s really mirroring a lot of the stuff that went on last season with Jax and Clay. It’s really all about character and that dynamic. And what happens is, the baby sort of becomes the pawn in all of that."
* Sutter and I talked about how some shows stumble in their third season -- I noted that the Belfast story line sounded like the kind of things many shows would try in their fifth years after treading water for a couple of seasons. "I always really wanted to do something in Season 3 that allowed us to really go in a different direction, so we do don’t [stagnate]," he said. "I think most shows fail because ... you know, they’re afraid to be different and so what happens is, they start to get either derivative or they start throwing" too many guest stars into the mix.
* "In my mind, it makes complete sense -- I knew the Irish backstory was always a very big part of this mythology," he continued. "And I don’t want to wait, like you said -- I don’t want to like wait until Season 5 to reveal that. It’s like, Jax is in a place where he’s deciding what he’s going to do, and he gets pulled away from all of that with everything that happens with his kid. Yet he can’t ultimately deny the information that he’s going to get in Belfast, and it will continue to impact him. So it seems like we’re going in a completely different direction, but, you know, we’re just continuing to tell the emotional story of our lead character."
what role will Cherry play now that Half-sack is dead, because a funeral wont last 3 episodes. i didnt know that Unser wasnt a regular in seasons 1 and 2
what role will Cherry play now that Half-sack is dead, because a funeral wont last 3 episodes. i didnt know that Unser wasnt a regular in seasons 1 and 2
what role will Cherry play now that Half-sack is dead, because a funeral wont last 3 episodes. i didnt know that Unser wasnt a regular in seasons 1 and 2
Gamma do NOT read past here
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The third season of FX’s gloriously gritty ‘Sons of Anarchy’ will feature the return of wild Cherry.
Taryn Manning (’Drive’) will reprise the role she created during Season 1 for at least three episodes, Fancast has learned exclusively.
The encore comes as a bit of a surprise, seeing as series boss Kurt Sutter indicated on Twitter in February that Manning’s role on CBS’ new ‘Hawaii Five-O’ had effectively waylaid a storyline he had mapped out for her return.
Said story arc, I have since learned, introduces the oft-mentioned Belfast charter of SAMCRO, populated in part by Keith McGee (to be played by Aussie actor Andrew McPhee, ‘Pirate Islands’) and Liam O’Neil (Arie Verveen, ‘Sin City’). Liam, a source tells me, is “involved” with Cherry.
A CBS rep did not respond to inquiries about Manning’s current status with ‘Hawaii Five-O.’ Originally, she was cast as Mary Ann McGarrett, the sister of O’Loughlin’s Detective Steve McGarrett. The character however does not appear in the finished pilot.
Manning last appeared on ‘SOA’ in November 2008. At that time, Cherry revealed to Gemma that 1) her real name was Rita, 2) she was still “sorta married” to an abusive husband, and 3) she was wanted for grand theft and arson. After narrowly escaping police custody and saying goodbye to boyfriend Half-Sack, she went on the run and disappeared.
Watched the first two episodes thought it was horrible. I'll stick with SAMCRO any day.
Yeah Ive only seen 2 episodes and its seems not much can happen with its closed confines of the tall cliff 'prison'...I did enjoy the gratuitous bare topped ladies though.
I'm almost done catching up on season 2 and this show just gets better and better. It's hard to believe that the most gripping and rewarding family drama I watch on TV is about a "family" of bikers. It's going to be hard for anything to top The Wire as my all time favorite TV show, but Sons and Breaking Bad
are fighting it out for number 2.
I'm almost done catching up on season 2 and this show just gets better and better. It's hard to believe that the most gripping and rewarding family drama I watch on TV is about a "family" of bikers. It's going to be hard for anything to top The Wire as my all time favorite TV show, but Sons and Breaking Bad
are fighting it out for number 2.
Yup. There's SG-1 and SGU as well. I haven't even seen the last two episodes of that and I'm a huge SG fanboy.
I think the Shield and The Wire will go up as I watch them.
Oh yeah I'm familiar with the Stargate franchises I just wasn't sure if there was another unrelated show with the SGA initials. I am actually one disc away from completing season 2 of SGA for the first time. It's a fun show, it definitely got a lot better after Ronan joined the cast, but Rodney might be the most annoying character in tv history. I really hate that character, and kept hoping a wraith would kill him, but than I saw the season 5 cover art, so I guess I'm SOL. I have all of the episodes of SGU on my DVR I stopped watching after episode 11, but I'm hoping now that I have a much bigger understanding of the SG I might enjoy the show much more so I'm just gonna have a marathon over a couple days when I get some time and see if I enjoy it better. I could have sworn I saw Rhona Mitra in the preview for the finale, please tell me my eyes don't deceive me, I LOVE Rhona.
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