Sons Of Anarchy: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best
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Following the destructive and insane exploits of motorcycle club SAMCRO, Sons of Anarchy was nothing if not an emotional rollercoaster. Dark, violent, twisting, full of both endearing anti-heroes and despicable villains, SoA was a show bursting with mayhem, insanity, guns, murder, drugs and romance.
Running for seven seasons between 2008 and 2014, the show never failed to traumatise and excite its audiences, and was often lifted to greatness by its phenomenal cast, unrelenting bleak tone and expert character development.
Throughout its run and even today, there are numerous arguments about the success and power of the show - was it one of the best shows on TV? Should THAT really have happened? Was the ending really that bad? And so on. But one thing is for certain - that, at its core, SoA is easily one of the most popular anti-hero stories to ever grace the small screen, and has a lot more to love than hate over its 92 episodes.
With that in mind, here are all seven seasons of Sons of Anarchy, ranked from worst to best. Major spoilers throughout.
7. Season Seven
The strongest aspect of Sons of Anarchy's final season was the ever-brilliant performance of Charlie Hunnam, who plays the end of Jax Teller's tragic, messy and winding story exactly as was expected.
Unfortunately, the season he had to work with wasn't willing to reach his level. Creator Kurt Sutter had no issue making each episode an hour plus of slogging, meandering character interactions and contrived subplots that led to the backend of nowhere, and rather than focusing more on the emotional relationship between Jax and Gemma, the season instead went all-out, offering death after death and violent clash after violent clash, until every major demise and twist began to lose its effect.
Amongst the season's biggest sins remains the complicated villain subplot with August Marks, the seemingly never-ending and unnecessarily dark tale of former comic relief Juice, and the anti-climatic deaths of Bobby Munson and Wayne Unser.
The season has its moments, including some short-lived character moments between Jax and his mother, and Jax and the rest of the crew, but thanks to its dodgy pacing, bizarre religious metaphors and somehow underwhelming conclusion, it doesn't even begin to live up to the strengths of the rest of the show.