DJariya

10 episode 1st season

The Pilot episode is 97 minutes with commercials. It's 67 minutes without


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I saw an early preview of the Pilot on FX Plus Sunday night. I thought it was decent. Lots of violence and F bombs, which Sons didn't use.

There is a brief cameo from a SOA original. It's a non-speaking cameo in a flashback sequence.

dex14

I'll reluctantly give it a chance, but my expectations are extremely low. I thought Sutter was just writing the pilot and being an EP in name, but it seems he has written more episodes, which is a big turn off to me.

at Sepinwall's review. It was spot on when going into all the faults of SoA.

Original Desmond

I'm going to save episodes and binge watch after, i did that with all SOA, i like the show that much

This should be great

DJariya

JD Pardo was a guest on our local FOX Station morning news show today promoting the show.

dex14

I wonder which one he took home with him.

MrX

Sutter getting mad at Sepinwall’s reviews of SoA and refusing to speak to him is my favorite Kurt Sutter thing of all time.

mugwump

Bring on the completely unnecessary and self-indulgent Gemma cameo -- I'm assuming there has to be one at some point.

TGM

only if she sings Greensleeves again

OldBoy

Getting medicre to negative reviews. 55% at RT...

auto

First episode is 90 minutes? That’s not a good sign.

Michael T Hudson

Took less than 30 minutes.

DJariya

Alright, so since it's already aired, this is what I understood and got out of it.

"EZ" the main character was once an aspiring college student and went to jail for killing a cop. The episode wasn't really clear on what happened to him and what he did. I read a recap that said he killed a dirty cop and was later exonerated when the cop was found out to be dirty. I'm assuming they will show what led up to that in a future episode? I felt like they jumped to him being in jail with no set up.

Gemma's cameo in the jail was pointless. That was basically a Sutter wink wink....look this is "connected" to Sons.

and then while in jail, he dumps his girlfriend who reveals that she's pregnant.

So then he joins the Mayans. His girlfriend is now the wife of the cartel boss who the Mayans are assisting smuggling drugs.

and then later it seems like EZ is actually an undercover informant for the police gathering Intel to help bring down the cartel. He said to his handler that he wants to get his life back.


I did like Michael Irby being the leader of this section of the Mayans.

As I said, overall I thought it was decent. But I felt like there were things missing. Also seems like EZ's father is fully embracing him being a Mayan.

mugwump

You left out the part where some of the MC are anti-cartel freedom fighters willing to get their own brothers killed in drug heists to help out some weird lady and a bunch of Deadmau5 wannabe kids. Sheesh.

This is gearing up to be the typical Sutter cluster-f but I'm actually liking it and that has to do primarily with the casting.

dex14

Did not care much for this it all and lost interest towards the end.

As mentioned, Michael Irby was good.

Josh-da-man

I thought it was boring and didn't really hold my interest.

And, for fucks sake, just speak English. Having half of the dialogue in English and half in subtitled Spanish gets annoying and makes it difficult to follow all of these new characters and situations.

Koby

Story seems to be a really terrible contrived mess of a plot.

dex14

So... typical for this franchise.

pelenor

This continued a trend from Sons of Anarchy that I always found hilarious and totally unbelievable.... Where is law enforcement? This show has them gunning down ALOT of people in one instant and just like in SOA, there are no inquiries or police asking them any questions, cause you know, it wasn't like they drove thru a part of town where the shoot out happened wearing their friggin' colors!

DWilson

The next episode is also 90 minutes, but both episodes show two titles on my DVR. So, are these double episodes and they're burning these off, or are these long episodes (which we know Sutter is prone to?).

dex14

All the episodes titles seem to have names with a "/" in them. They aren't airing two episodes.

Red Dog

Seriously. SOA was as contrived as it gets. I still enjoyed the ride.

DJariya

I know I and most here don't really care about TV ratings anymore, but in case you're curious, Mayans MC was the most watched cable show Tuesday night.

https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/da...s-sept-4-2018/

Deftones

Biggest premiere this year, too: http://www.darkhorizons.com/mayans-m...2018-premiere/

God damn it people. This continues to give Sutter juice in the industry. Stop it.

DJariya

I never really saw Danny Pino as a villain, but he's pretty good here as the Cartel guy. Looks like Tony Plana is playing his uncle. The torture scene in last night's episode where he threw the hot oil on that suspect who took his kid looked real.

I liked the scenes EZ and his Dad.

They jump around a lot between Spanish and English and for someone who's not used to reading subtitles, it could be kind of jarring and frustrating going back and forth between reading and listening. Lots of the cartel scenes are back and forth between English and Spanish.

dex14

Episode 2: a typical SOA chase put to shitty music. I don’t know how much longer I’m going to be able to last with this.