Ah, wonderful. Five nights a week of utter pablum such as "you know, if you STAND IN YOUR TRUTH (tm) and think from a position of strength then you will attract money to you."

Okay, so Pacey and his sibs are sitting on a 30 mil patch of land that they can't afford to keep. Given this, do you:

"Oh no! Our COCAINE has been stolen!"
"You tried to take the COCAINE back to the SUPPLIERS!?!?!?!"

They have bad blood with Taupe. Jax set those two colours at odds a few seasons back by deviously murdering the VP of one and blaming the other (can't remember which, though.)

Yes exactly this. The Hells Angels have also been doing some interesting things pushing back against over-zealous law enforcement in civil court in various places.

Bylaws? For some reason I am thinking of Stringer Bell reproaching Shamrock for taking notes on a "criminal fucking conspiracy."

Completely the bright spot of this series anymore. I hope the last shot of the last ep is Tig and Venus working together as ranch hands on Nero's property while Nero plays with his nephew or something.

And it was so touching how Gems took time to give the SAMCRO ring to little Mr. junior sociopath so he would have it when he "becomes a member."

So Jax has murdered more people than Pol Pot but it is his punching Charlie Utter that prompts a full-on Thelma and Louise police chase with every police cruiser in Sheriff Jarry's "quadrant." A police chase IN a new Dodge Challenger! Which sponsors the show! Oh Sutter you cheeky bastard, you.

And the only realistic part of that would be the first one! Meant only with respect to Russians. I am English and we are right up there with Russians as far as being constantly drunk of course!

Fucking hell! That might be the first Homeland episode I full-on LIKED since about when they interrogated Brody after catching him at it a few seasons back.

I hope I am wrong here, but this feels like the moment when a good/potentially great show begins its inexorable decline into "Showtime show - with a shocking TWIST!"

All I have to say is that I legitimately thought they were going to go with "Iranian intel faked Brody's death somehow" when Damien Lewis and his unusually small mouth rocked up on my screen.

Which I guess would explain the thought process of the Nazi asshole who was going there to murder the cop.

AU contraire. Jax is a "decent guy." Sutter keeps having other characters tell us that.

And with nary a Bronte reading from which to draw solace. Fuck you, Sutter. Making me feel all cheapened like that.

Wait, it took THIS LONG for Child Protective Services to get on the case? The 2 or 3 hundred guys Jax has murdered didn't clue them in already that this might not be a top environment for the little nipper?

Also another trademark SoA coup by Samcro. Involving 800 moving parts that all have to move the right way independently of one another. And them triumphing in a machine-gun firefight straight out of Fallujah with nary a scratch to show for it after.

The reveal of Gemma's latest bit of dastardly business was made even more effective by Jax hearing it from his intellectual equal.

Such an interesting show. I think about it the next day, even. As opposed to things like Sons of Anarchy where I just think: "why the fuck did I waste an hour and a half last night on that turgid shite?"