7. 'Black Widower'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtyIzwKwWIU Thats the title of the ninety-minute season premiere hitting cable screens on Tuesday, September 9th, and anybody whos been watching the show knows exactly what that signifies. The bloody climax of season six, A Mothers Work saw the culmination of years of storytelling, as the two matriarchs of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club: Redwood Originals (aka SAMCRO) came head to head for the last time. Gemma Teller-Morrow, the mother of our tortured hero Jackson was victorious, brutally murdering his wife Tara in her own kitchen, stabbing her over and over in the head with a barbecue fork while drowning her in the sink. Not the subtlest of finales, but Sons Of Anarchy rarely does subtle. Were told that Black Widower opens ten days after the events of A Mothers Work and finds Jax in jail. When DA Patterson found him cradling Taras corpse at the climax of season six, there was speculation that he would be framed as the killer, but creator, showrunner and main writer Kurt Sutter is too smart for that. With only thirteen episodes to tell the remainder of the story, he needs Jackson out of jail and set on revenge. FXs press release for the premiere promises that Jackson is bent on setting in motion "brutal machinations that will lead to complete and merciless retribution" against those he believes to be responsible for Taras horrific murder. One things for sure everyones hands will be bloody when Mister Mayhem fades in at the end of Black Widower.
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