If you haven’t watched Sons of Anarchy yet, you should stop what you’re doing right now, tell your boss you’re not coming in for a week, and grab yourself a bucket (or ten) of popcorn for this epic marathon. Yes, if you have seen the crime drama, you’ll know that it’s one of the most intense, most detailed, and most entertaining shows to ever grace our television screens.
Following the lives of those within the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Redwood Original (SAMCRO) biker gang, this show is so much more than men and women on motorcycles. However, if you haven’t quite recovered from the emotional ending of the season finale, you can rest easy knowing that you can fill your brain with these facts you probably didn’t know about Sons of Anarchy…
[post_page_title]The show is loosely based on Hamlet[/post_page_title]
There are countless TV shows and movies out there that have been influenced by the legend himself, William Shakespeare. Sons of Anarchy is one of those shows, and it’s even been called “Hamlet on Harleys” in the past! There are various references to this tragedy throughout all seven seasons of this show, and this can be seen within the characters themselves and the intermingling storylines.
For starters, there is the theme of family rebellion and usurping with Jax’s father and Clay. As if that wasn’t enough, the show also hints towards the infamous Oedipal complex between Gemma and Jax. Yes, there’s a reason why their mother-son bond was a little too close sometimes.