Sons of Anarchy
Black Widower
TV Flash files “Black Widower” as the first listed hour of season 7 — Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014) on FX, season 7, episode 1, aired 2014-09-09, 71 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E01: listed hour 80 of 92 in the Sons of Anarchy guide, first listed hour of season 7. It aired 2014-09-09 (71 min). The listed hour before it is “A Mother's Work” (S06E13). Next is “Toil and Till” (S07E02).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In the wake of Tara's death, Jax makes vengeance a club priority.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Black Widower sit in the Sons of Anarchy guide?
S07E01 is listed hour 80 of 92 — first listed hour of season 7, season 7 episode 1.
When did Sons of Anarchy S07E01 air?
Black Widower aired 2014-09-09 and is listed at 71 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
Ron Perlman’s Vincent loved Linda Hamilton’s Catherine in a candlelit tunnel-world under Manhattan — Beauty and the Beast as gothic prime-time romance, production design that cost real money — then rode Sons of Anarchy as outlaw-soap…
- 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
Tommy Flanagan’s Filip “Chibs” Telford held Sons of Anarchy’s Charming orbit as Scottish muscle with a scar the camera treated as biography. Kurt Sutter’s FX drama is Hamlet with Harleys: Jax, Gemma, seven seasons of betrayal accounting.…
- Kim Coates as Alex 'Tig' Trager
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