Sons of Anarchy
Pilot
TV Flash files “Pilot” as a desk essential hour — Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014) on FX, season 1, episode 1, aired 2008-09-03, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 92 in the Sons of Anarchy guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2008-09-03 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Seeds” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Pilot”. Pilot puts Jax Teller on the club his father built: Kurt Sutter's FX Hamlet, Charlie Hunnam and Katey Sagal already in a blood ledger.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jax grows weary of the increasing lawlessness of the motorcycle club he is involved with. His life becomes more unstable when he discovers his late father's true vision for the Sons of Anarchy, and his crank-addicted ex-wife gives birth to his son.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pilot sit in the Sons of Anarchy guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 92 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Sons of Anarchy S01E01 air?
Pilot aired 2008-09-03 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is Sons of Anarchy just motorcycle porn?
It is club politics as family curse: Hamlet with Harleys, succession, and betrayal accounting in Charming. The bikes are the leather; the throne room is the show.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Jax Teller questions the outlaw motorcycle club his father built while blood and loyalty close in on Charming. Kurt Sutter's FX drama is Hamlet with Harleys: Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal's Gemma, seven seasons of betrayal accounting. Prestige outlaw soap for the antihero decade's second wave.
September 3, 2008, FX puts Hamlet in leather and parks it in a California town called Charming: Jax Teller questions the outlaw motorcycle club his father built while blood, guns, and loyalty close in. Kurt Sutter's drama ran seven seasons through 2014 — Shakespearean succession, club politics as family curse. Charlie Hunnam as Jax; Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller Morrow, Ron Perlman as Clay, Maggie Siff as Tara, Tommy Flanagan and Kim Coates in the clubhouse throne room. The Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood…
Filed against
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- Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller Morrow
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- Ron Perlman as Clay Morrow
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- Maggie Siff as Tara Knowles
Maggie Siff brought the clinic into the clubhouse as Tara Knowles on Sons of Anarchy — Hamlet with Harleys, Jax questioning the outlaw motorcycle club his father built, blood and loyalty closing in on Charming. Prestige outlaw soap for…
- Tommy Flanagan as Filip 'Chibs' Telford
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- Kim Coates as Alex 'Tig' Trager
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