Sons Of Anarchy - Season 7, Episode 04: Poor Little Lambs
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Sequel to the previous season this season begins with Jax trying to cope with events with Jax while trying to maintain his loyalty to the clubs even as it encounters many ups and downs.
While some of the first half of the episode felt like it was stalling on the big ticket storylines, the action-filled, although downbeat, ending signaled a turning point in the war Jax started.
Anyone and anything near the orbit of the Sons of Anarchy seems to risk coming to a bloody end. With nine more episodes left I can't even imagine who will be left standing when it's over.
"Poor Little Lambs" was a solid set up episode that threw in the first bit of payback for SAMCRO that we all knew was coming. Everyone is scrambling now, and with one of the Charming cops dead, it isn't just the gangs in a panic.
I was surprised at how callous the club was over their crime... but Jax and the rest acted as though the whole thing was just a nutty gag played on them by fate, and not a quadruple homicide brought about by their own carelessness.
Highlighting character-driven sequences that escalate in tension as they progress toward violent conclusions, "Poor Little Lambs" is a reminder of why Sons of Anarchy was so potent in the first place.
Not only was the storyline the perfect opportunity for Tig and Rat to have more of their weird sexual banter, but it marked the return of Venus, (Justified's Walton Goggins).
Sons of Anarchy is using the deaths of women as stunts to further its plot, and it's happened so often over the years that it now feels sloppy and contrived.
While there's a bang in "Poor Little Lambs," there is a whimper at the end... As Tig notes early in the episode, it is a small world, after all. And the walls of that world are closing in.
