Henry Rollins-related stories
Posted Nov 18th 2009 8:13AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Sons of Anarchy
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S02E11)
"If Gemma had gotten raped on John's watch, he'd have written a whole different book." - Jax
Forgiveness can be a funny thing. Assuming you're on the receiving end of something awful, It's not always easy to determine if you'd even be willing to forgive. That's the beauty of forgiveness though -- the act that led you to it might have been sincere, but that doesn't mean your capacity to forgive has to be. Unlike quietly accepting a situation, forgiving a situation has the power to pacify the parties at fault.
As we learned with Opie last night on
Sons of Anarchy, his capacity to forgive is
huge, but that doesn't mean he ain't lying through his teeth when it comes to his true intentions.
Continue reading Review: Sons of Anarchy - Service
Posted Oct 28th 2009 9:28AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Sons of Anarchy
"Pull the trigger man. That's the only way this leather is coming off my back." - Jax to Alvarez, the head of the Mayans who orders him to give up his club jacket
Jax is supposed to be the hero of this little modern day Shakesperian epic, but he's starting to look more and more like the enemy in each episode.
I don't mean that he'll be the one in the end who has been scheming the whole time behind SAMCRO's back with the white power. This is a well-crafted, slow paced, high caliber drama, not a badly written Schwarzenegger movie with a thrown together twist ending (cough,
Total Recall, cough).
Jax is more of an enemy of himself. He might have good intentions at heart, but his moves are nowhere near his brain. Maybe his loyalty to his family runs deeper than he ever imagined. Logic and family hardly make a decent cocktail. Anyone with a brother-in-law can tell you that.
Continue reading Review: Sons of Anarchy - Potlatch
Posted Sep 8th 2009 11:26PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Episode Recaps
(S02E01) - "I'm not going to swap one outlaw for another one." How do you turn a group of gruff biker outlaws who deal potent drugs to street trash and hardcore hardware to ruthless killers into a likable group of huggable stud muffins?
That's easy. You make a group of radical white supremacists into their enemies. It's the old "lovable by association" tactic of TV writing. Is the audience not buying your childhood version of Darth Vader? Then throw in a wise-cracking alien that sounds like Pee Wee Herman with Down's Syndrome.
However, in the case of the second season of
Sons of Anarchy, it's a pretty sweet power play for a show that already packed more punch than an Absinthe smoothie.
Continue reading Sons of Anarchy: Albification (season premiere)
Posted Sep 4th 2009 3:01PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Early Looks, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
The level that FX's
Sons of Anarchy's second season has to reach to top their outrageous first might seem unfathomable. But the man helming this ship is writer, creator and executive producer Kurt Sutter - the man who helped steer
The Shield through seven strange and unpredictable seasons of treacherous waters that were once deemed unchartable for the likes of basic cable.
It's tight control on what appears to be complete chaos. Sutter and company are a fleet of reckless
Sledge Hammers who are willing to blow up whole buildings to get the job done. Trust him. He knows what he's doing.
FX's white hot biker drama kicks off Tuesday and it brings all of the blood, guts, bullets and glory that the first season did in buckets. And that's just in the first five episodes.
Continue reading Sons of Anarchy, season two -- An early look
Posted Aug 30th 2009 3:12PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, Reality-Free, Jane After Dark
I've been hearing about an awesome new show on FX since it aired last year, and finally got around to watching season one of
Sons of Anarchy this week for
Jane After Dark. Being a motorcycle babe myself, I love any show where bikes or gangs are the central focus.
But even if you've never mounted a bad chopper, there are plenty of reasons to love this badass show about the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Redwood Originals (SAMCRO). They run a legal automotive business while dealing arms, battling rival gangs, and working with the cops (sometimes) to keep their town of Charming, California a pleasant place to live. You can see all the irony at work here.
Continue reading Jane After Dark: Sons of Anarchy - bikes, guns, sex and Katey Sagal
Posted Jun 30th 2009 5:12PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Programming, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, Reality-Free
FX announced their fall premiere dates today and it turns out that they've got quite the schedule lined up for the autumn months.
With Rescue Me set to end it's 22 episode fifth season on Tuesday, September 1st, it comes as no surprise that Sons of Anarchy has been scheduled to fill the Tuesday 10PM ET time-slot starting the very next week on September 8th. The motorcycle drama's sophomore season is generating a lot of buzz ever since the announcement of Henry Rollins and Adam Arkin joining the cast.
But wait - there's more!
Continue reading FX sets premieres for Sons of Anarchy, Always Sunny, and Nip/Tuck
Posted May 30th 2009 12:01PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Casting, Reality-Free, Galleries
With Rescue Me plowing through it's massive 22 episode fifth season, it's a little weird to think that we'll be tuning into Denis Leary's FDNY hijnks until September 8th - especially since we're used to having the show be over after about three months.
I'm not really sure what my point is mentioning that, because all I'm doing is piling good news on top of more good news - once Rescue Me ends, Sons of Anarchy is back.
The FX motorcycle drama began filming it's second season recently, with two notable cast additions - Henry Rollins and Adam Arkin. At the time of Rollins casting, nothing was known about his character other than his role as a "new antagonist." Now, according to Fancast, it turns out that both Rollins and Arkin will be playing neo-nazis. If you recall Jax (Charlie Hunnam) and Clay's tumultuous relationship with Darby (Mitch Pileggi) and the Nords, then you know they ain't gonna get along with these two.
If you feel like being spoiled beyond that, pictures and more character info after the jump...
Continue reading New shots from Sons of Anarchy's second season
Posted Mar 16th 2009 3:32PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Things just got a helluva lot more complicated in Charming, CA.
FX announced today that Henry Rollins has joined the cast of Sons of Anarchy for a six episode arc. Season two, which begins filming later this spring on April 27th, will undoubtedly pick up following the shocking events of Opie's (Ryan Hurst) wife Donna's (Sprague Grayden) murder. Unfortunately, there's no indication as to what type of role Rollins will be taking on - just that he's a "new antagonist" who "poses a deadly threat" to Jax (Charlie Hunnam) and the rest of his SAMCRO buddies.
FX has dubbed SOA as a worthy successor to The Shield and based Sons' season one ratings, I couldn't agree more. The freshman season started out flat but picked up steam as it progressed. As for Rollins? Look at the guy! If there's one person out there that looks like he belongs on this show, it's him.
Posted Jul 4th 2007 5:59PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, TV Royalty, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show
Charlie Rose: a tribute to Beverly Sills, who died earlier this week - The Late Show With David Letterman: Rosie Perez and Dr. Dog (repeat)
- Jay Leno: Thomas Haden Church and Ne-Yo (repeat)
- Jimmy Kimmel Live: Bernie Mac, Bob Odenkirk, and Fiction Plane (repeat)
- Tavis Smiley: Chevy Chase (repeat)
- Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Robin Williams and Gilde Ensemble (repeat)
- The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Wanda Sykes, Tina Brown, and Bobby Valentino (repeat)
- Last Call With Carson Daly: Henry Rollins and The Bird and the Bee (repeat)
Posted Jun 4th 2007 6:55PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD
New TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.
- Chappelle's Show - Best Of
- CHiPs - Season 1
- The Cosby Show - Seasons 3 and 4
- Dark Angel - Seasons 1 and 2 (Thin)
- The Dead Zone - Season 5
- Doctor Who - Stories 115, 116 and 117
- The Fall Guy - Season 1, Volumes 1 and 2 and also a Season 1 set
- The Henry Rollins Show - Season 1
- Hex - Season 1
- Hogan's Heroes - Season 6
- Mission: Impossible - Season 2
- The Outer Limits - Vol. 1
- Rescue Me - Season 3
- Robin Hood - Season 1
- Seinfeld - Season 8
- SpongeBob SquarePants - Bikini Bottom Adventures
- Survivorman - Survivorman
- The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - Best of Standup Comedians and The King of Late Night
- Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Season 1
- What's New Scooby Doo? - Season 2
Posted May 11th 2007 5:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight
At 8, CBS has a new Ghost Whisperer, a new Close To Home (both season finales) and a new Numb3rs. - NBC has a new, two-hour Dateline at 8, then a new Law and Order.
- There's a new Smackdown! on The CW at 8.
- PBS has a new NOW at 8, then new episodes of Washington Week and Bill Moyers Journal.
- TLC has a new Trading Spaces at 8.
- Also at 8: Sci-Fi has new episodes of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Painkiller Jane.
- At 9, ABC has a new, two-hour 20/20.
- At 11, IFC has a new Henry Rollins Show, with guests Luke and Andrew Wilson and Chris Cornell.
- HBO has a new Real Time with Bill Maher, with guests Paula Poundstone, Arianna Huffington, Frank Luntz, and David Talbot.
Check your local TV listings for more.
Posted Jan 8th 2007 10:02AM by Brett Love
Filed under: OpEd, Lost, Cable/Satellite, Eureka, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, Day Break
2006 was a good year for television, but then all years are good years for television. Nostalgia often makes us think that things were better way back when, but I wouldn't trade my hundreds of channels of digital cable for the three networks on the rabbit ears for anything. Even the somewhat obscure channels like The-N (
South of Nowhere), GSN (
High Stakes Poker), and IFC (
Henry Rollins Show) manage to bring some good stuff to the table. Of course, things are never all rosey, but we'll get to that later. First, some of the best things about TV this past year.
NBC's handling of Studio 60 and Friday Night Lights - Many of us, myself included, are quick to jump on the networks when they dump a show just a few episodes in. So it's worth acknowledging that the network has been more than patient with these two shows. Many shows that have come before them have been blown right off the schedule for generating similar ratings.
Studio 60 kicked off their season with ratings that declined week after week and, honestly,
Friday Night Lights just never had any ratings to begin with. I really hope their patience pays off and audiences find these shows. They both deserve to see a second season.
Continue reading Best and Worst of 2006: Brett's List
Posted Dec 21st 2006 4:41PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Sports, Cable, Late Night, Spike, Talk Show, Pickups and Renewals
A slate of shows that all have one thing in common - a testosterone-laiden center - have been
renewed for your viewing pleasure. Here's what's on the menu for those of you who shun the metrosexual kind:
The Henry Rollins ShowEx-Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins will be back for a second season on IFC. Premiering on April 13th, the late-night talk show is adding an editorial element with guest-star commentator Janeane Garofalo making the occasional appearance. Twenty episodes have been ordered up.
Continue reading Tough mofos return to TV
Posted Jun 13th 2006 5:59PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Celebrities
Well, he didn't really write a letter Ann Coulter, but he does in
this funny clip. Fair warning, the clip contains some bad language, and is probably
NSFW, unless you have headphones on. It's pretty amusing, though I'll be the first to say that these two have at least one thing in common, which is that I don't really care about either of their political beliefs. Nevertheless, Rollins' "love letter" did have me cracking up at least a couple times, especially the part about memorizing every line of
Caddyshack. I also think that should be required of all my romantic conquests. It seems like a perfectly legitimate request.
Posted Apr 22nd 2006 4:12PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
ABC is showing Pretty Woman at
8 (not sure why - it's 15 years old and has been seen by almost everyone by now).
- CBS has a new
48 Hours Mystery on Marilyn Monroe at 8, follwed by Nicholson in Something's Gotta Give.
- NBC cancels Celebrity Cooking Showdown, but tonight at 8 there are two eps? So all the fans (both of you)
can get caught up. It's followed by a Law and Order: CI repeat.
- FOX has the Subway Fresh 500 all
night. No, that's not a new big sandwich, it's NASCAR.
- Also at 8: if those celebs above cooking isn't
enough for you, John Corbett joins Emeril on Food Network for some "Country Cookin."
- At 8:15,
IFC has Shallow Grave, followed by new eps of The Henry Rollins Show and Samurai 7.
- At 9, TLC has a new Trading Spaces, followed by two new eps of Tuckerville.
- At 10 (or
after Braves baseball), TBS has Back to the Future II.
- NBC has a repeat SNL at 11:30,
with Natalie Portman and Fall Out Boy.
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