Sons of Anarchy Reviews and After Show - AfterBuzz TV

Listen to the podcast first thing in the morning after the show has aired. Figure this is my last chance to share my appreciation. As a fellow podcaster I understand how hard it is to do these things regularly and so well. For a show that's so heavy, you keep things light, fun and interesting. Thanks so much for your time and insight.

This podcast has been absolutely amazing. I’m so upset that I didn’t find it until after “Greensleeves” aired, so I went back and listened to a bunch of past episodes just to get my fix. Great job, guys! I’m glad I can listen to this after the finale to get over my post-Sons depression.

This podcast references all the important points from past episodes and gives amazing insights you may have missed while watching the live show. So, so, so good guys!

First off, this is my first post ever for your podcast which deserves 5 stars. I only discovered Afterbuzz and this podcast mid-Season 5 and I think you guys do a wonderful job breaking down the episodes. I don’t always agree with everything you guys say but I have gotten a lot of great gems and insights about the show. I love it when all of you are in the house, but especially Kevin because he still loves Clay who was a big favorite of mine. Listening to your podcast as you talked about Gemma, I don’t think Jax will kill her based on his breakdown with Nero although I could be wrong. But I have to comment on the idea expressed about the possibility that Gemma will end up in prison. I believe that Gemma will end up in a “prison of her own making” as I believe that her evolution into the Homeless Woman is nearly complete. The Homeless Woman has always been with us for a reason. I think that character foreshadows or is a harbinger of doom in direct correlation to Gemma from the very beginning and that we are now about to see the fulfillment of that. When we first met her in S-1, the HW—only seen by Jax and Gemma and who I believe is just a corporeal being—made several interesting statements about herself. Stating that she was unable to hold down a job due to mental illness—“I have these uncontrollable rages for no apparent reason”—and that “Abel will take care of my boys”—were very interesting, and to me it seems that the HW’s continued disheveled appearance and her talking to herself incoherently over the course of the last 5 seasons was mirroring Gemma’s own life becoming destabilized, and completely unraveled starting with her rape in S-2, her being on the lam in S-3, the breakdown of her relationship with Clay and losing her place in the Club in S-4, her crazy and erratic behavior in S-5, her “uncontrollable rage” that led to Tara’s murder in S-6 and now the aftermath of her destructive behavior that has led to her continued conversations with a dead woman in S-7 are a big sign that Gemma is not the once powerful old lady that she once was in S-1 but is now eerily reminiscent of the pathetic, lonely state of the Homeless Woman. The fact that Gemma was warned in S-5 & 6 by both Jax and Unser that if she kept on the path she was on she would end up old and alone has fully come to roost after her talk with Abel while behind a fence when we see her walk off after giving Abel his grandfather’s ring. It’s symbolic of the fact that she is completely separate, alone and has no family, is now homeless and that she believes that Abel—who “knows his tribe”—will in effect, continue the legacy of the Sons and that as the Homeless Woman stated, probably believes that “Abel will take care of my boys,” —those boys being the remaining Club members after Jax is gone. It is my belief that if/when Jax meets Mr. Mayhem that the knowledge that she was fully responsible for bringing about his demise and that of some of his brothers (because we know that with Kurt’s crazy butt they ain’t all getting out of this mess alive) that Gemma will be trapped in the prison of her mind as she descends into insanity and her transformation into the Homeless Woman will be complete. For me, Gemma dying at the hands of her son (or anyone else for that matter) is just too easy an out for her. She has been, as Kevin put it, the puppet master behind the Club and as the one mostly responsible for the path that the Club is now on, doesn’t deserve the quick and easy mercy that bullet would give her. She needs to live and agonize over all the pain she has wrought as she alone is responsible for what will happen to Jax and his brothers. At least, that’s my super long and crazy take on it. I know it’s a quirky kind of theory and I’m probably way off base, but I think the possibility exists although you certainly can’t tell with Kurt Sutter’s crazy mind as he builds a lot of different possibilities into this story. Looking forward to seeing/hearing the podcast of Red Rose, the title of which scares me considering Sutter’s tweets on the subject of the Games of Thrones “Red Wedding” episode.