FX’s most popular show, the outlaw biker drama Sons of Anarchy, is barreling towards its final season next year, but first up will be a controversial and violent beginning to season 6 that kicks off on Sept 10.
Showrunner and creator Kurt Sutter met with the Television Critics Association on Friday to give a few details about the upcoming season, including one moment that will likely shock fans and critics alike.
“I’ve wanted to do that story for about three years,” Sutter said. “I knew that it would be somewhat controversial but I feel like, as much as I wouldn’t do something because it was controversial, I’m also not going to not do something because it’s controversial.”
The event that takes place during the Sons of Anarchy debut episode for season 6 was apparently taken straight from the headlines of the news, and will probably leave a few jaws on the floor when it’s over.
Given the nature of the build up, expect Sutter’s words to come true because this is the show that opened last season with Tig Trager’s (Kim Coates) daughter being burned alive in a pit as revenge by Oakland gangster Damon Pope (Harold Perrineau).
Sutter insists that the violence displayed on Sons of Anarchy isn’t for shock factor, but instead just an organic part of the storylines that play out in a very turbulent world for outlaw bikers who themselves commit heinous acts when the time calls for it.
“I will also say that there’s a lot of blood and guts in my show,” Sutter stated. “It’s a signature of the show but I feel like I’m not lying to myself when I say this—nothing is done gratuitously. The events that happen in the premiere are really the catalyst for the third act of this morality play we’re doing.”
The third act, as Sutter references, will be season 6 and season 7 of the show that will bring a conclusion to Sons of Anarchy.
Sutter has planned since the early stages of the show landing on FX that ultimately it would run for seven seasons to tell his entire story.
With each season of the show running for 13 episodes, Sutter did tease that the executives at FX, who he’s raved about ever since joining the network as a writer on The Shield, would allow him some latitude to tell the final story his way even if it meant extending the final season.
“Hey, if I go to John (Landgraf) and the studio and say, ‘Hey, I need three more episodes to close out the season, they’ll find a way to do it,” Sutter said. “If I can’t fit (the final season) into 13 episodes, there might be some room.”
Sons of Anarchy season 6 will debut on FX on Tuesday night, Sept 10 at 10pm ET/PT
(As the new season of Sons of Anarchy approaches, the Nerdcore Movement will present a special Days of Anarchy news section with interviews, video and information about the upcoming sixth season of the show)
