'Sons of Anarchy' Season 6 Episode 2 Review - 'One One Six' Sees SAMCRO Unraveling
"One One Six" took a step down in intensity from last week's season premiere, but the main storyline of Season 6 is now loud and clear. Lee Toric wants to take down SAMCRO. Actually, let me rephrase that. He wants to destroy SAMCRO and will stop at nothing to do so. The school shooting that involved the club's KG9 from last week was the perfect opportunity for Lee to make his next move, which was getting information from Clay. Lee has made a good villain so far, aside from the fact that he may be more or less insane (not sure what the desk pounding was all about). I hope the show doesn't take him down the Stahl route. Stahl was a good villain to begin with, but by Season 3 she had turned into a crazy caricature, who simply had to die because her actions were so unrealistically despicable.
And yes, you read that right. Clay is actually going to rat on his club, in exchange for eventual immunity. Lee made it clear that his favorite part of being a federal marshal was hurting people, and Clay said he wants to hurt people too, mainly Gemma and Jax. The only way he would give Lee information was if he got to have a meeting with both parties. Gemma has always been portrayed as a strong woman, but her meeting with Clay was a way to break her down, as Clay knew it would. While Gemma can be despicable, I did feel a bit sorry for her as it's obvious she may never be able to get over Clay. This is the man who beat the living s--t out of her, and she still can't get over him. She realized that Clay is going to rat, and Jax will presumably have his own talk with the former SAMCRO president in next week's episode.
Speaking of Jax, he's found out about the school shooting situation. This could obviously be the beginning of the end for the club, which is something he will refuse to let happen, and this episode proved that he'd take any measure. As we found out last week, the kid who committed the shooting was the son of Primo's old lady, who was actually a huge junkie. Jax put it best when he said the only thing more dangerous than a rat is a junkie rat. The club was afraid that she would spill the beans on where the gun came from to the authorities, especially because her son ended up dying as well. Jax and Co. took her and Primo to a cabin in the woods (nothing good ever happens in a cabin in the woods), where the shocking/disturbing event that seems to be an episode regular occurred.
The kid is already dead, but this episode saw the end of his mother and Primo as well. It was obvious that the easy way out for SAMCRO (at least for now) was to remove Primo and his old lady out of the picture. The mom ended up making it easy for them, when she pulled a gun on everyone, suspicious that the club had plans to kill her. In the end, Nero shot his cousin Primo in the head and Juice had the honor of smothering the mother to death after injecting her with whatever drugs she was on. Jax told Nero and his crew that her death was due to an overdose, which may come back to haunt him. Nero was obviously shaken up about the entire situation, and he's showing his first signs of not being totally on board with the club. And Jax keeps saying he wants to take the club in the right direction? Yeah, good luck with that.
Tara and Jax's relationship was the other focus of this episode and guess what? Their relationship is pretty terrible. The two didn't speak a word to each other when she was released from jail, and essentially they both are over each other. They're also both lying to each other about everything, and they both know it. The only thing that seems to be holding them together is Abel and Thomas. There may be another addition to family too, as Tara thinks she's pregnant again (or maybe she wants to be pregnant again for her upcoming trial). Their sex scene at the end mirrors Jax's sex scene from last week, except Tara is not showing any sign of pleasure as Collette did. I simply can't see Jax and Tara living happily ever after.
Skid Marks
- I'll admit, I have no idea what is going on with Bobby right now.
- Jax called the events at the cabin a "little family Latino crisis."
- "No one gets hurt anymore." Good one, Jax.
- "I was never easy to be with, Gem." Really, Clay? I would have never known.
- "You're a dick." As usual, Gemma tells it like it is.
- Lee invited one of Nero's call girls to his motel room, which has no chance of ending well.
- The Irish are back and being as stubborn as ever. They know that Clay didn't kill Pope, and they won't agree with Jax's proposal to smuggle machine guns elsewhere. Because, when have they ever agreed with anything willingly?
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