Sons of Anarchy Season 2

[Beantown]

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Yeah, I agree - I'd focus on the baby as well.

However, I can definitely see Tara leaving Jax over this, once he gets their son back. "I love you, but I can't love the club."

[Miles_Yuhas]

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Yeah, I agree - I'd focus on the baby as well.

However, I can definitely see Tara leaving Jax over this, once he gets their son back. "I love you, but I can't love the club."

I agree, actually I almost expect it to happen, I think there is a very high possibility of it happening.

WOW, we have to wait a long time for the third season. THis is going to be a killer wait.

[Schism 6]

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Withdrawls....

[JayBee74]

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Too early for a Season 3 Thread-the show will probably debut in September-just a little update on some casting-Paula Malcolmson (Trixie On Deadwood) will have a recurring role on the series. All indications are the show will take place some of the time in the UK, so she can retain her Irish accent. Kenny Johnson (Lem-The Shield) will appear in six episodes for Season 3.

[CaptainZombie]

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Too early for a Season 3 Thread-the show will probably debut in September-just a little update on some casting-Paula Malcolmson (Trixie On Deadwood) will have a recurring role on the series. All indications are the show will take place some of the time in the UK, so she can retain her Irish accent. Kenny Johnson (Lem-The Shield) will appear in six episodes for Season 3.

This is great news. I think it would be a good idea to start a season 3 thread with more news starting to pop up about the next season.

[sven]

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Trixie!

Awesome addition to the cast.

[OSUFan_88]

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God I miss SoA.

Please, Please do not suck next season.

[El_Jefe]

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What the hell happened to Darby?

[JayBee74]

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What the hell happened to Darby?

When the white supremacists burned down SAMCRO's porn studio with Darby's help they double crossed him and he apparently died in the fire-unless he's Houdini.

[allBthere]

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When the white supremacists burned down SAMCRO's porn studio with Darby's help they double crossed him and he apparently died in the fire-unless he's Houdini.

If they didn't show/hear him die...he's not dead imo. I don't really remember the episode, but usually they don't just imply stuff like that.

[tWoSour]

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they filmed scenes with him and Chuckie (remember, chuckie was in there and got out) that got cut for time. They'll for sure be on the blu ray/dvd....doubt Darby is dead

[JayBee74]

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they filmed scenes with him and Chuckie (remember, chuckie was in there and got out) that got cut for time. They'll for sure be on the blu ray/dvd....doubt Darby is dead

I don't think he is either based on this info bit I pulled up:

It's still not clear whether Chuck and/or Darby perished in the Caracara fire, in part because some material about it had to be cut for time from last week's episode, according to Kurt Sutter. The matter will be explained in an upcoming episode.

Hal Holbrook has just been cast as Gemma's father.

EDIT: Production of the series began today (April 23, 2010). Season 2 was the highest rated single season of any FX original series (4.48 million viewers and 3.16 million adults between the ages of 18 and 49.)

[55]

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Hal Holbrook has just been cast as Gemma's father.

Love this guy. He should have won the BSA Oscar for Into The Wild.

[sven]

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Kurt Sutter with some info on next season and how SAMCRO got involved in Ireland. I'll tag it for the people wary of spoilers, but it's just some background information so don't hesitate to take a look unless you're seriously paranoid about this sort of thing.

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REDWOOD ORIGINALS AND BELFAST, SOME MYTHOLOGY
Posted by Kurt Sutter at 8:39 AM

By now, most folks know we are doing an Irish storyline this season. I won't spoil anything with details but I wanted to share some mythology with fans. This is information that has either already come out through character or will be alluded to this season. Again, it's nothing that will spoil your viewing but if you are reading my blog, or reaching out to me on Facebook or Twitter, it gives you some inside dope others won't have. And I'm sure I don't have to say this, but just for the folks in legal -- the following mythology is not based on real events or facts. It is all a machination of my disturbed little mind. Any likeness or similarities to real events or people is purely ****ing coincidental.

Gemma, Jackson and Thomas Teller were all born with the family flaw. Varying degrees of congenital heart disease, CHD. Jax's condition was very minor and he eventually outgrew his issue. Although he needs to be aware of his genetic predisposition for heart disease, it's nothing that impacts his day-to-day life. Such is the case with Gemma as well. Thomas was not that lucky. Jax's younger brother was born in distress, his CHD was much more serious. (Abel was also born with CHD, but his condition, like Jax, is minor. Abel's birth distress was due to the Gastroschisis - intestines are outside of the body - an unfortunately common occurrence of children born of drug-addicted mothers).

Thomas' childhood was a series of tests, treatments and hospital stays. Not only did it have an emotional toll on John and Gemma, it created a huge financial burden as well. Up until that point, the Redwood Originals had been involved in some illegal enterprises, but not guns. A member of the First Nine, McGee, was born and raised in Belfast. He knew that the IRA was looking for distribution to the states. Both McGee and Clay convinced John that assembling, customizing and selling guns could be a lucrative enterprise. John, desperate and already slightly broken, agreed. An Irish Catholic by birth, John Teller went to Belfast and made a deal with the Irish Republican Army. And so the gun business was born.

McGee stayed in his homeland and began the Belfast charter of the Sons of Anarchy. Sons of Anarchy Belfast (Sam Bell) became a mercenary arm of the IRA.

[sven]

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Kick ***. Maureen Ryan finally posted details from her set visit from a few weeks ago. The first block of spoilers is just casting news. The second block digs into plotlines and that sort of thing, but there aren't any major spoilers.

Exclusive: First pictures, exclusive details on the new 'Sons of Anarchy' season

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).

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.

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* 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).

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.

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* 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."