14 DAY TRIAL // “Sons of Anarchy,” FX’s highest rated drama in the history of the network, is back for a seventh and final season. The premiere episode, which aired last night, picked up shortly after the devastating events in the previous season’s finale, preparing fans for all the loose ends to be tied up.
This is one of the most violent shows on television right now so, after 6 spectacular seasons, fans know to expect something big for the final one. Just how big it will be, only time will tell – but it will most definitely start from Tara’s murder, leading man Charlie Hunnam tells TV Guide.
What will happen to Jax Teller?
The season 7 premiere brings fans face to face with a Jax Teller (Hunnam) they’d never seen before, because the previous Jax was all about trying to find a peaceful way for SAMCRO to do business and possibly to get out of the gun trade as well.
This new Jax has nothing more to lose and absolutely nothing to believe in anymore. His dad’s “code” and ideas are completely worthless because he’s just lost the one person for whom risking everything was worth it: the love of his life, his wife Tara (Maggie Siff).
“I don't think Jax has really truly processed it yet,” Hunnam says of Tara’s death. “It feels to me that he really has kind of repressed all of that and is instead much more concentrated on vengeance and writing the wrong and not really processing the emotional repercussion of it.”
The premiere episode finds Jax in prison on parole violation. The moment he gets out, fans should expect him to go looking for Tara’s murderer for retribution, not knowing that he should look much closer in his backyard than he believes.
“If he's going to survive, he's got to be every bit as bad or worse than all of the people around him. Jax was always so tortured by the pull of who he thought he should be. There's something really liberating about being rid of the sense of having to be a good guy. This season is about Jax deciding... if he's got no reason to leave [the outlaw world], he may as well be what this world demands you be,” Hunnam explains.
Will Jax die? How about Gemma? Is this the end of SAMCRO?
These are answers that only the final episode will answer. However, previous interviews with the stars of the series, particularly Hunnam and Katey Sagal, who plays his mother Gemma, included major hints that Jax will be the one to end Gemma’s life for killing Tara, even if she did it believing she’d turned rat.
Polls online conducted by trade publications like Entertainment Weekly reveal that fans are convinced most SAMCRO members will meet their end by the time the final season wraps. As they see it, Gemma will probably be the first to go and Jax among the last, if at all.