14 DAY TRIAL // Season 6 of “Sons of Anarchy” premiered on FX the other day, with the first episode including series creator Kart Sutter’s take on the December 2012 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Above is a trailer for the new season: even if you haven’t seen the premiere yet, you will still notice that it’s hinted in the first few seconds.
Sutter knew that including a school shooting, with the shooter a young boy no less, would cause controversy but, he says again, he couldn’t have ditched the story altogether only for this reason.
“I've wanted to do that story for about three years, and I knew, obviously, that it would be somewhat controversial, but I feel like, you know, as much as I wouldn't do something because it was controversial, I'm also not going to do something because it's controversial,” he says, as cited by TheWrap.
“Nothing is done gratuitously, that the events that happen in the premiere are really the catalyst for the third act of this morality play we're doing,” he adds.
In other words, the scene of the boy walking into a school with a machine gun and the implication that he shot dead whoever came his way is relevant to the bigger story. Future episodes will make that clearer, we’re to understand.