Sons of Anarchy
FX | Release Date: September 3, 2008
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 73 Critic Reviews
Positive:
56
Mixed:
15
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushSep 10, 2013
Season 6 Review: What feels so tightly focused and earned in Breaking Bad too often comes off as forced and unconvincing in the land of the soulful bikers.... Still, Sons has a propulsive allure as it dramatizes Jax's attempts to take the gang legit (though he still condones murder when it's convenient) while battle lines continue to be drawn between the show's ferociously impressive leading ladies. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: Well-made, but heavy-handed and hardly inviting. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Working with directors Allen Coulter and Michael Dinner, Sutter does bring a visceral quality to the violence, while detailing the club's code and commitment to functioning as an extended family; there's just so little dimension to the characters early on that it's difficult to care. Read full review
60
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: For all its ferocity, and despite some excellent supporting performances, there’s a curious hole at the center of Sons of Anarchy. The character we’re supposed to be most interested in is something of a blank slate. Read full review
60
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: It will take awhile to figure out whether Sons of Anarchy was worth the investment of our time. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: A complex and well-built drama that leaves the viewer wondering if there's enough humanity here to make the hard-boiled stories worth following. Read full review
60
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: It might all have been a bit lifeless, had not Sutter, a writer on "The Shield"--which has so far kept its own tragic hero from speaking in blank verse--not cast his wife, Katey Sagal, as Jax's mother, Gemma. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 3 Review: This dark biker-gang drama certainly has its share of fans, but held up against the larger pantheon of cable dramas--including some of FX's recent and upcoming additions--Sons emulates its ride: Plenty noisy, but a relatively low-octane vehicle. Read full review
50
NewsdayVerne GaySep 8, 2014
Season 7 Review: Fans will love Tuesday night's supersized launch. I'm just limp and weary from it all. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowrySep 8, 2014
Season 7 Review: While it will be interesting to see the way Sons tackles loose ends, in terms of how the series explores shades of gray, it looks like it’s all over but the shooting. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GraySep 10, 2013
Season 6 Review: As intrigued as I am by Sutter's willingness to bite off something bigger than his character's tongue to tell a story about the true costs of SAMCRO's business dealings, I'm not sure this is the time, or the place. Read full review
50
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanSep 7, 2012
Season 5 Review: It's weird that in the show's fifth season, the stakes actually feel lower than they did a couple of years ago. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
Season 1 Review: Sutter packs the early episodes with colorful dialogue but at the same time so much random violence that it crosses the line to gratuitous. Read full review
50
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: Creator Kurt Sutter, a longtime writer for "The Shield," has said that he wanted to create a West coast version of "The Sopranos," but the world he created sometimes feels like "The Sopranos" without any discernible moral compass. Read full review
40
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: Hunnam broods magnetically, but there aren't enough reasons to ride along on this incredibly bleak journey. Read full review
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