Sunday, February 28, 2010

Sons of Anarchy

If the writers could write and the actors could act, this might actually be a good show. They can't, and it isn't. The young, pretty actors have two acting styles—coy and stupidly perplexed—and the old, homely ones are character actors with no character: there's the rape guy, the needs-an-oxygen-mask-to-breathe guy, the Scottish guy, etc. It's basically The Sopranos-lite with white bikers, and once in a while a Wonder Years voiceover trots out a bunch of lame, pretentious hippy clichés. On a positive note, Ron "Sex Baboon" Perlman makes me gay for ugly.

RATING: 48%

(Image from editorial.sidereel.com.)

6 comments:

Internet Robyn said...

"Makes me gay for ugly"...can R3 have a quote board? LOVE it!

laurie said...

I still have no idea what this show is about.

Internet John said...

Bikers and Proudhonian cliches.

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

whats anything "about" -- decart (on weed)

Belabras said...

I love Ron, but he's been some seriously bad crap over the years.

I.J. said...

I like when he gets an interesting role in a bad movie. Like Cronos. The Name of the Rose was no prize pig either, but he was pretty creepy in that.