Sons of Anarchy | |
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Genre | Crime drama |
Created by | Kurt Sutter |
Starring |
Charlie Hunnam Katey Sagal Mark Boone Junior Kim Coates Tommy Flanagan Johnny Lewis Maggie Siff Ron Perlman Ryan Hurst William Lucking Theo Rossi Dayton Callie Jimmy Smits Drea De Matteo David Labrava Niko Nicotera |
Theme music composer | Bob Thiele Dave Kushner Curtis Stigers |
Opening theme | "This Life" by Curtis Stigers & The Forest Rangers |
Composer(s) | Bob Thiele Jr. |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 7 |
No. of episodes | 92 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Kurt Sutter John Linson Art Linson James D. Parriott Paris Barclay Dave Erickson |
Producer(s) | Jon Paré Regina Corrado Liz Sagal Craig Yahata Chris Collins Grace Whitehouse |
Location(s) | Occidental Studios, North Hollywood, California |
Cinematography | Paul Maibaum |
Editor(s) | Paul Fontaine Etienne des Lauriers Lauren Pendergrass |
Running time | 39–90 minutes |
Production company(s) | Linson The Company Sutter Ink Fox 21 FX Productions |
Distributor | 20th Television |
Release | |
Original network | FX |
Original release | September 3, 2008 | – December 9, 2014
Sons of Anarchy is an American crime drama television series created by Kurt Sutter. It follows the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in California's Central Valley. The show stars Charlie Hunnam as Jackson "Jax" Teller, initially the vice president, who begins questioning the club and himself. Brotherhood, loyalty and redemption are constant themes.
Sons of Anarchy premiered on September 3, 2008, on cable network FX. The series's third season attracted an average of 4.9 million weekly viewers, making it FX's highest rated series and surpassing its other hits The Shield, Nip/Tuck and Rescue Me. The season four and five premieres were the two highest-rated telecasts in FX's history.
The sixth season aired from September 10, 2013 through December 10, 2013. The seventh and final season of the series premiered on September 9, 2014. The series finale premiered on December 9, 2014.
The series explores vigilantism, government corruption and racism, and depicts an outlaw motorcycle club as an analogy for human transformation. Real life Oakland Hell's Angel David Labrava served as a technical adviser, and also played one of the main characters, Happy Lowman, the club's assassin.
In November 2013, Sutter indicated he was in talks with FX to make a Sons of Anarchy prequel set in the 1960s. In February 2015, he said he would not work on the prequel, likely to be titled "The First 9", before 2017. In November 2016 FX announced the development of a spin off series Mayans MC, centered around Latino culture, which will likely include past SOA characters in cameo roles.