This fast hitting show is one of FX’s most riveting series to date. The show is a Pandora’s Box of loyalty, love, betrayal, survival, honor, and greed all set in a small California town ironically named Charming. It is the story of an outlaw biker gang fighting and scheming to defend the small area of the world they claim as theirs, from the onslaught of other biker gangs, white supremacists, corrupt politicians, and the long-arm-of-the-law. However, the meat of the show is the eternal struggle between good and evil, the old vs. new, and the inevitability of change. These concepts are embodied in the dangerous power struggle between the M.C’s young V.P Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charles Matthew "Charlie" Hunnam) and Clarence "Clay" Morrow (Ron Perlman), his stepfather and the incumbent old-warhorse club president. In the onset of season one, Jax inadvertently stumbles upon his deceased father’s mission statement/manuscript which outlines a cleaner and more honest direction for the club. And with this opus, from his father, and his own personal moral tug of war, he soon finds himself on a deadly collision course with his stepfather. The story line is gritty and invoking, with all the characters well defined and developed. Of course with such a talented cast, full of such diversity and intensity, like Ron Perlman, Katey Sagal who plays Jax’s mother Gemma Teller Morrow, or Tommy Flanagan who plays Filip "Chibs" Telford, the club’s Scottish powerhouse and connection to the IRA gun running, to only name a few, it would be near impossible to have a weak story line. I look forward to the third season, which is to air in early September.
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