When Kurt Sutter, creator of FX’s record-breaking show “Sons of Anarchy,” promised that Season 7 would be a blood fest, he was not kidding. The final season of the hit motorcycle drama started on Tuesday and there was plenty of gore to go around.

It opened with main character Jackson ‘Jax’ Teller beating a fellow inmate in prison. After beating the man to a bloody pulp, he then carves a swastika (the man was a white supremacist) into his stomach before ripping out his teeth. On a similarly bloody note, the episode ending with the torture of a member of the Asian mafia falsely accused of killing Tara and Eli, ending with Jax rubbing salt in the wounds and stabbing the man in the head with a barbeque fork — talk about making the audience squirm.

While the rest of the episode lacked the intense action the show is known for, it did lay out a lot of ground work for episodes to come. It’s no secret that the body count will be high in the last 13 episodes and the season opener gives the audience an idea of who may be leaving the fictional-town, Charming, in a body bag.

Ratings sky rocketed from last season’s premiere, jumping to 6.2 million compared to Season 6’s 5.87 million. Ratings are most likely due to the increasingly improved writing from Sutter and an amazing cast.
Leading man Charlie Hunnam gets better each season and his portrayal of Jax in the premiere was his best work by far. The British-born actor brought his character to a whole new level, making him tough, moral-less, and blood thirsty.

There is no doubt this season will be the best in show history and maybe the final season will bring Sutter a much-deserved Emmy award. The show has never won at the Emmy’s but there is a lot of potential, as well as the tradition of shows winning big in their final seasons.

And although there are still 12 episodes to go this season, it is sad to think that the book will soon be closing on the “Sons of Anarchy” and their small California town. Watch “Sons of Anarchy” every Tuesday at 10 p.m. on FX.

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