Sons Of Anarchy - Season 7, Episode 06: Smoke 'em if You Got 'em
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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.
Perhaps one of the bigger mysteries is that despite the fact that I'm usually completely turned off by so much bloodshed, I keep tuning back in week after week. It's not because reviewing the show is my job.
Everything appears to be coming together, riding quickly toward that giant pile of dead bodies that this 21st-century Shakespearean tragedy must deliver.
After five episodes of tense action and whore-slaughtering, this hour focused on... complicated negotiations that were hampered by biker jargon (six-and-a-half seasons in, my biker vocab is still stuck at a second-grade level).
"Smoke 'em if you Got 'em" not only marked the approximate halfway point of the show's final season, but it finally started to piece together some of the lies and storylines that have been woven through to date.
[It] is the longest episode of the season so far, and all that time adds to hardly anything at all. Sure, I missed some of the texture and a few nice character moments, but for the most part, this was a slog bereft of tension, insight, or entertainment.
Despite the sense that the narrative has essentially stalled, "Smoke 'em If You Got 'em" does its best to push things along with more scenes of people being gunned down and their bodies being used to signify some kind of power shift.
The show fell victim to the worst of its habits, trying to advance storylines involving the Sons' business with the Mayans, the One-Niners, the Aryan Brotherhood, the East-Dub Crew, August Marks and possibly the Jets and the Sharks as well.