'Sons of Anarchy' Review of "Sweet and Vaded"

The episode of Sons of Anarchy titled "Sweet and Vaded" opens with the boys cleaning out what's left of the club house, headed to their new club house, behind a candy store.

The mayor tells them the town is getting jittery and they have a bit of a time to show some good will.  Just like the old days, when the gang looked out for the town.

Things will be slow for the MC for a bit, while various business plans come together over the next few months.

Tara is preparing for the culmination of her plotting and plans.

The DA is leaning hard on Nero to give up the gun source.  She even nonchalantly drops the angle of his son in the mix.

Jax votes in new patches in their new "clubhouse."  After reading in their new patches, they decide to promote "Rat Boy" from prospect to member.  It was a great moment of levity as they gave him a ration of s*! until they show him his new patch.

BOBBY is BACK.  (He brought in the new "patch" members with him.) (There's something nagging me in the back of my mind, something about one of the new members I had read a few months back.  I guess we'll see as time moves on.)

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With peace on the table with the Irish, Jax sends his Irish captives home.

Eli tells the DA the DNA from Toric's hotel room will be back by tomorrow.  This is why she's put the time crunch on Nero.

Later, Jax agrees to help Nero's girl, Venus (Played wonderfully by Walton Goggins) and it was more of a hoot of a distraction.  Venus is trying to get her son away from her ex-lover/mother Alice, played by Adrienne Barbeau.   It seems that Alice runs a child porn ring and the kid is destined for that life.

Jax "deals" with it, all the while, we're watching Tig getting all hot under the collar for her.

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Then there's Tara's plan, coming together.  Wendy drops some bits with Gemma about Tara's plan to get her kids out of Charming.  This sends Gemma on a tirade against her.  In front of witnesses.  And then Tara fakes Gemma attacking her by slamming herself into a desk and this gets Gemma arrested.  (With a little help with lots of blood.)

She tells Jax she's lost the baby, and he's coerced by what's presented to him, and signs various paperwork that Tara had prepared.

Her plot is set to make Gemma appear to be an unfit grandparent.

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With the club moving into the back of a candy store, is this how far the club has fallen or a good sign of the times.  Maybe this is the good vibe the town needs from the club.

This time around, Venus has a more serious role and back story, giving her a history.  (And probably give Tig his love interest.  Tig know about his/her history and it really makes him hot under the collar.)

Though it's a fascinating family dynamic she explains, in as much as why she really can't tell her son who she really is.

The DA racing the clock against the DNA evidence is a fascinating pressure cooker for the fans.  But Nero is rock solid.  Though previews for next week could have us on the edge of our seats.

Tara has gone dark in her methods, but it's what measures are necessary to keep her children safe.  And if you had tuned in and saw the previews for next week, it's being suggested that she faked her pregnancy so that she can say she lost the baby due to Gemma's attack.

Oh, Gemma.

This move by Tara was a one-way stunt.  I don't think there's any coming back from this between these two.  And as the episode comes to a close, Gemma is sitting in processing, and knowingly nods to herself.

I do believe she's just decided to pull out all the stops in dealing with Tara, Wendy, Tara's lawyer and anyone else involved in this stunt that got her arrested.

This was yet another wonderfully fun episode from Kurt Sutter's Sons of Anarchy.  But then again, what's new?

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