This show is a spinoff of the famous 'Sons of Anarchy,' which had a great second season* from my perspective; I won't speak to the rest of the series. But this spinoff is worth giving a chance because it features Vincent Vargas of Range 15 / Art 15 fame. He's a great guy, and I hope whatever he works on does well.
* You might object, on moral grounds, to a show that glamorizes gangsters to whatever degree. There's an argument on that point at the link from the history of American cinema, and the crucial role that gangster movies have played precisely in dramatizing morality in the American context.
UPDATE:
Speaking of Range 15 vets and new videos, here's Nick Palmisciano of Ranger Up's new project.
Yeah, no. This is glorifying criminals. It's the same reason I refused to watch "Breaking Bad", and "Weeds".
ReplyDeleteThe gangster movies of old all showed the gangsters coming to a bad end, and even at the time, were also decried as sensationalist trash.
The Sons mostly all died horribly, fwiw.
ReplyDeleteThey aren't gansters, just actors. Well, some of them may have some connections. It was a lot easier cracking the human nature dynamic here when I looked at Japanese yankee, yakuza, and the various levels in deliquency.
ReplyDeleteIn some schools decades ago, they had a title for the school's strongest fighter: bansho. He was also the defender and leader of the territory itself, which was unified and divided based upon class levels and school uniforms. Other schools were considered foreigners.
If they can present some human source dynamics it would already be better than the stereotypes. Assessing and analyzing human behavioral patterns for destruction, counter defense, counter attack, and termination isn't all that interesting using stereotypes.