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Created by Kurt Sutter, Sons of Anarchy is an action and crime drama series that features Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, Kim Coates, and others. The show aired from 2008 to 2014 and focused on the personal and professional lives of the members of an outlaw motorcycle club in the fictional town of Charming, California.
The show’s protagonist is Jax (Hunnam), and the series has themes of brotherhood, corruption, betrayal, and vigilantism. The show was loved by viewers, and it has many iconic and memorable episodes.
Here are 10 of those!
Sovereign, A Mother's Work, and other memorable episodes of Sons of Anarchy
10. Dorylus
In the fourth season and third episode of Sons of Anarchy, the downward spiral of Juice begins. Roosevelt reveals to Juice that he is aware of his father's Black race and the lie he had told the club when he informed them that he was Puerto Rican. Although the outdated rule about the club not having any black members was no longer active, Juice was unaware of this fact. Therefore, Juice’s lie did not matter to SAMCRO.
On the other hand, Clay threatens Tara to find out whether she knows about Maureen’s letters, and Gemma confronts Tara about them, requesting her not to tell Jax about them. The episode also marks the beginning of the club’s end under Clay’s command as the SAMCRO members have to make a decison about the deal with the Galindo Cartel about drug trafficking.
9. Bainne
The 11th episode of the third season of Sons of Anarchy is important because SAMCRO is sent to Ireland. The episode focuses on Jax and the club trying to find Abel, and learning that he has been adopted. Jax does not find out where Abel is, but when he does reach him, he sees that Abel is happy and well with his adoptive parents and has decided to stay away from SAMCRO. However, in a tragic turn of events, Abel’s adoptive parents are killed by Jimmy O’Phelan, and Abel is brought back to Jax.
On the other hand, in this episode, it is also revealed that Maureen, JT’s mistress and the mother of his daughter, kept in touch with JT through letters till his death. The letters reveal that JT was suspicious of Clay and Gemma wanting him dead. Maureen sent those letters to Jax, which caused problems in Charming.
8. The Revelator
The 13th and final episode of the first season of Sons of Anarchy is another iconic episode of the show. Many important things happen in the episode, and it sets the stage for the next season. Jax and the gang are upset over the death of someone close, and Jax’s best friend is depressed because he thinks that his wife Donna died because of his association with SAMCRO.
On the other hand, Clay and Tig are also remorseful over Donna’s death, which they try to hide even though Clay has confessed to Gemma. Gemma also discovers in this episode that Jax has been reading his father John Teller’s manuscript. Jax commits fully to his relationship with Tara. Finally, there is a fight between Jax and Tig as the tension between them throughout the season finally boils over. The club’s vice president also decides to change some things in the club.
7. NS
The 13th episode of the third season of Sons of Anarchy is important for various reasons. The episode focuses on Opie, first of all, who lost his wife Donna. He was finally able to get revenge on ATF agent Stahl, who was the reason behind Donna’s death and was a highly villainous character. The episode is cathartic for Opie’s fans as he makes Stahl reenact his wife’s final moments and finally shoots her.
On the other hand, the episode also focuses on Chibs, who is also able to get revenge on his enemy, Jimmy O, who stole his wife and daughter and forced him to leave Ireland. Secondly, the episode also sees Tara accepting her position in Jax’s life and finally being okay with the club. Tara also comes across letters that prove that Clay and Gemma killed Jax’s father John.
6. Aon Rud Persanta
The sixth season of Sons of Anarchy is important as Clay Morrow gives his final appearance in the 11th episode. The troubled relationship between Clay and his stepson Jax reaches a tipping point and ends in a gory and gruesome fight. The episode is important as Clay has to finally come clean about his years of deceit and lying. He is held accountable for the deaths of Jax’s father, John, Donna, and Piney. The episode is electric and satisfying.
Clay was around only because of his connection to the Irish Kings. As soon as his purpose was served, Jax was not afraid to shoot his stepfather and former president to get revenge for all the manipulation that Clay had organized. The conflicting relationship between Jax and Clay finally came to an end.
5. Sovereign
The opening episode of season five is heartbreaking and poignant. The episode focuses on Tig, who is usually the one to provide the comedic relief in Sons of Anarchy. The humble guy faces the death of his daughter in the cruelest way.
The episode begins with Tig becoming the new president of the club after Clay’s demotion. However, Jax has to deal with Tig’s role in the death of Oakland gangster Damon Pope’s daughter, whom he inadvertently ran over with his car in the fourth season. This error of his haunts him, and Tig has to witness the death of his daughter Dawn at the hands of Damon, who wants revenge. Damon douses Tig’s daughter with gasoline, and he is forced to witness his daughter’s final moments. Even though Tig pleads to Damon to kill him instead, the gangster lights up the girl with his cigar. In one of the most brutal and heartbreaking moments of the show, Tig cradles his daughter’s burnt body.
4. A Mother’s Work
The 13th and final episode of the sixth season of Sons of Anarchy is important because it gives a heartbreaking and memorable send-off to the character of Tara. The episode focuses on Gemma’s hatred for Tara, which has always been a running plotline in the show as the two ladies vied for Jax’s love and attention. However, Jax loved Tara as his soulmate, and Gemma was not able to digest that. Therefore, in the episode, a drunk and grieving Gemma decides to get into a physical battle with Tara and disturbingly smashes her head with an iron and kills her with a carving fork to the skull.
The death closes all hopes for Jax about having a happy life with his kids and Tara outside the troubles of Charming. Gemma wrongfully assumes that Tara had betrayed her son when that did not happen. Therefore, Tara’s gruesome death is all the more tragic, and it shifts the trajectory of Jax’s life.
3. Red Rose
In the seventh season of Sons of Anarchy, Jax begins his downward spiral that makes him cross all boundaries of redemption. In the 12th episode, it is Gemma’s turn to face her past sins, like her husband Clay had to before. Jax has already caused mayhem and chaos as the president of the club; therefore, when he learns the truth about Tara’s death and about the fact that his mother killed her, Jax hungrily seeks revenge.
Since the beginning of the show, Gemma’s only aim had been to keep Jax all to himself and occupied with the club. Her overwhelming rage towards Tara had caused Gemma to kill her brutally. Therefore, even though Jack used to hesitate before seeking revenge against people before, this time, he did not even flinch while shooting his mother. The episode is a turning point in the character of Jax as he is left irredeemable.
2. The Sleep of Babies
Sons of Anarchy is brilliant in giving its memorable characters some of the most heartbreaking deaths and leaving the remaining characters in a devastated state. In season one, 12th episode, Opie’s wife Donna gets murdered in a tragically botched hit. Everything begins when Clay and Tig assume that Opie is a rat and decide to kill him. Agent Stahl also detains Opie and his family for questioning, and Clay orders Opie’s death.
However, this is when Donna’s death feels even more emotional because she had finally decided to support Opie and his lifestyle and wanted to live a happy life with him. Donna decides to drive the rig home, but Tig, who is on the truck’s tail, is unaware that it is Donna driving and not Opie. Therefore, he shoots Donna mistakenly, and when Tig and Clay come to know about their error, they feel guilty. Also, Opie was never the rat as they had assumed.
1. Laying Pipe
Perhaps one of the most important episodes of Sons of Anarchy is season five’s third episode. The episode is heartbreaking because Opie decides to make the ultimate sacrifice of his life for Jax and his fellow brothers at the club. When all the club members find themselves at the county jail because of Damon Pope, the ruthless gangster, talks to the SAMCRO president and tells him that for the sins of the club to be forgiven, one of the members would have to die.
Opie decides to sacrifice himself as everyone is being tortured in the jail. The pain on Jax’s face as Opie is brutally beaten to death by the prison guards is emotionally heavy. The episode is one of the most tragic and emotional moments in the show, and fans of the series cannot forget this sacrifice by Opie.
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