Sons of Anarchy season 6

The sixth and penultimate season of the American television drama series Sons of Anarchy premiered on September 10, 2013, and concluded on December 10, 2013, after 13 episodes aired on cable network FX. Created by Kurt Sutter, it is about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in California's Central Valley. The show centers on protagonist Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charlie Hunnam), the president of the club, who begins questioning the club and himself.

The season finale was the second-most watched episode of the season and the most-watched finale in the series history.

Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, California, as well as other members of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO), their families, various Charming townspeople, allied and rival gangs, associates, and law agencies that undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises.

Plot
Following the arrest of Tara and Clay, Jax struggles to hold SAMCRO together while Tara is imprisoned. Toric approaches both Tara and Clay and offers them deals in exchange for giving up SAMCRO; both initially refuse, but Clay later relents when confronted with being thrown into the prison's general population and assuredly being killed by inmates paid off by Damon Pope's men as a retaliation for Pope's murder. Juice returns to Charming after helping Bobby relocate after stepping down as VP, which angers Chibs, who doesn't believe Juice has been punished enough for talking to cops and later beats him.

Cast and characters
Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, California, as well as the other members of Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO), their families, various Charming townspeople, allied and rival gangs, associates, and law agencies that undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises.

Main cast

 * Charlie Hunnam as Jackson "Jax" Teller
 * Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller Morrow
 * Mark Boone Junior as Robert "Bobby Elvis" Munson
 * Dayton Callie as Wayne Unser
 * Kim Coates as Alex "Tig" Trager
 * Tommy Flanagan as Filip "Chibs" Telford
 * Theo Rossi as Juan-Carlos "Juice" Ortiz
 * Maggie Siff as Tara Knowles-Teller
 * Ron Perlman as Clarence "Clay" Morrow
 * Jimmy Smits as Nero Padilla

Special guest cast

 * CCH Pounder as Tyne Patterson
 * Drea de Matteo as Wendy Case
 * Rockmond Dunbar as Lieutenant Eli Roosevelt
 * Peter Weller as Charles Barosky
 * Donal Logue as Lee Toric
 * Walton Goggins as Venus Van Dam
 * Mitch Pileggi as Ernest Darby
 * Robert Patrick as Les Packer

Recurring cast

 * David LaBrava as Happy Lowman
 * Niko Nicotera as George "Ratboy" Skogstrom
 * Michael Marisi Ornstein as Chuck Marstein
 * Robin Weigert as Ally Lowen
 * LaMonicca Garret as Sgt. Cane
 * Timothy V. Murphy as Gallen O'Shay
 * Reynaldo Gallegos as Fiasco
 * Kim Dickens as Collette Jane
 * Billy Brown as August Marks
 * Douglas Bennett as Orlin West
 * Rusty Coones as Rane Quinn
 * McNally Sagal as Margaret Murphy
 * Winter Ave Zoli as Lyla Winston
 * Jacob Vargas as Alessandro Montez
 * Christopher Douglas Reed as Phillip "Filthy Phil" Russell
 * Steve Howey as Hopper
 * Kurt Sutter as "Big" Otto Delaney
 * Bob McCracken as Brendan Roarke
 * Kenneth Choi as Henry Lin
 * Emilio Rivera as Marcus Alvarez
 * Kristen Renton as Ima
 * Walter Wong as Chris "V-Lin" Von Lin
 * Jeff Kober as Jacob Hale, Jr.
 * Alan O'Neill as Hugh

Guest stars

 * Samaire Armstrong as Darvany Jennings
 * Keone Young as Bohai Lin
 * Hayley McFarland as Brooke Putner
 * Olivia Burnette as Homeless Woman
 * Mo McRae as Tyler Yost
 * C. Thomas Howell as Frank Eagan
 * Dave Navarro as Arcadio Nerona
 * Doug Jones as Officer Crane
 * Michael Shamus Wiles as Jury White
 * Adrienne Barbeau as Alice Nona
 * Patrick St. Esprit as Elliott Oswald

Production
Although Sons of Anarchy is set in Northern California's Central Valley, it is filmed primarily at Occidental Studios Stage 5A in North Hollywood. Main sets located there include the clubhouse, St. Thomas Hospital and Jax's house. The production rooms at the studio used by the writing staff also double as the Charming police station. External scenes are often filmed nearby in Sun Valley and Tujunga.

Reception
Season six has received generally favorable reviews. At Metacritic, the season received a critic score of 74% based on 9 critic reviews. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 76% based on 25 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: "Sons of Anarchy continues to deliver an energetic blend of bracing action sequences, pitch black humor, and heartless violence." At IGN, season 6 episodes received critic ratings ranging from a low of 8.1 (Episode 604, labelled "Great" and "Editors' Choice") to a high of 9.5 (Episode 611, labelled "Amazing", and "Editors' Choice").

Home media release
The sixth season was released in the United States on DVD and Blu-ray on August 26, 2014.