Sons of Anarchy

Sons of Anarchy is about an outlawed motorcycled club that lives in Charming, California. The main character is Jax Teller, who is the vice president of the club. Throughout the show, he struggles with trying to raise his son in a safe world and the love he has for the club his father started. The club deals with running guns, other gangs, drugs and sex. On the other hand, the most important thing to the entire club is family. 

The show first aired in 2008 and will start its sixth season this September. Kurt Sutter is the show’s creator, executive producer, writer, and director. According to Sons of Anarchy’s main page, Kurt Sutter spent most of his childhood in doors directly in front of the television. The time spent there allowed Sutter to gain the knowledge of storytelling and that violence is educational if the story is told with animated and colorful characters. Along with his work this show, he works with Paramount Studios, Warner Bros, and DreamWorks. The Los Angeles Times reports that the second season averaged 3.7 million total viewers. The Chicago Tribune gave the show three and a half stars. The Sons of Anarchy’s main webpage shows that 2,891,848 people like this show on Facebook. Netflix averaged 1,046,998 people who rated this show which gave it four and a half stars. 

The show depicts a gangster's lifestyle which makes the audience interested in watching. In particular, audiences pay close attention to the codes, or values, that the gangs live by. The gangster narratives incorporate the values, such as loyalty, honor and respect, that culture seems to forget. Along with the lifestyle, minorities are portrayed in this series and that portrayal effects audience's view about minorities throughout life. They are characterized by parts of criminals, or law enforcers, and these parts are defined by the minorities intelligence level, speech, laziness, and aggression. These stereotypical characterization gives the audience a skewed sense of minorities in general because of the negative judgements the media shows the public. This racial discrimination is characterized by the egalitarian values of Whites and their negative attitudes directed toward racial groups. 

Along with minorities represented, women are also portrayed within this series and this portrayal will effect how young audiences view women. Most of the women in this show were between twenty and thirty years of age. Women were more likely to have a blue-collared job than a white-collar. Women’s marital status, and physical characteristics, had no direct relationship when it came to their occupational role. However, Sutter loves to write strong female characters, such as Gemma Teller, played by Kately Sagal, and Tara, played by Maggie Siff. Gemma Teller is the club's president's wife who has power over the other guys in the club. Tara is Jax Teller's girlfriend and a pediatric surgeon on the show.