The Irish don’t play games and SAMCRO, of course has to find out everything the hard way.
The second the Irish asked to know if the Sons would have a full table and be in the same place, you had to know something was up. If not, you haven’t learned a thing from the show over the past five and a half seasons.
Although entertaining, most of the show was rather predictable. Nero’s fate looks sealed with Lee Toric dead and the Sons will now begin a two front war with the District Attorney and the Irish. This is not going to end well. It’s going to be bloody and the MC is under-staffed with Bobby gone nomad. Can he come back and save things? Or is the club finished?
What wasn’t predictable was the forced sex involving the police officers, Clay and Gemma. How can Clay help the club? Does he want to? Can he be trusted? Simply put, with their numbers dwindling and support from the Irish over, The Sons need all the help they can get. Do they turn to Marx Incorporated? How does this affect their other more legitimate operations?
Again, it’s obvious something big is going to happen; it’s just going to be a slow ride until we get there.
The pot continues to stir with Wendy and Tara as well. Wendy wants a relationship with Abel and Tara has no choice but to make it happen. With Jax focused on saving his club, it appears Tara is readying a knife for his back. With his friends and family life hanging in the balance, can Jax save them all? Can he save himself?
With questions abound, Sons of Anarchy is definitely building up to something special, but has failed to deliver its usual high-octane plot development on its way to its final destination.
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports.
Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders.
His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023.
Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief.
Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale.
Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.
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