Sons of Anarchy was a really good show & must watch TV especially in the first 5 seasons & season 6 was on the decline but still was overall quite good.
For some reason the change of the staff writer to Gladys Rodriguez ( who helped write the scripts in season 7 ) made the show go from being believable to totally ridiculous & the character arcs made no logical sense at all as this final season was a total bore fest & left me as a viewer feeling really let down.
There was so many good ways to end the show & this last season was not it.
Now Kurt Sutter was still listed as the main writer for season 7 which makes you wonder what happened, as did he lose interest in the show, or knowing it was the last season did he want to put way too much into it & got it so wrong.
Unfortunately Gladys Rodriguez was the variable that wasn't able to save the final season, though ultimately Kurt Sutter was in charge so takes the blame.
Hopefully Kurt Sutter has learned from his mistakes with this season 7 fail.
Overall though the first 5 seasons are must watch & if the last 2 seasons had been better this would have been a true 10 out of 10 show it was for a while.
Season 1 = 10 out of 10
Season 2 = 10 out of 10
Season 3 = 10 out of 10
Season 4 = 10 out of 10
Season 5 = 10 out of 10
Season 6 = 8 out of 10 ( the story starts to become a bit too convenient )
Season 7 = 1 out of 10 ( the writing becomes lazy & makes little sense )
Total score ends up being 59 out of 70 so 84.3% score dragging a 10 out of 10 show ( after 5 seasons ) down from a 10 ( 100% ) rating to a disappointing score of only 8 ( 84% ) stars, as the last season is so bad it would probably be best not to watch season 7 at all & just use your own imagination as a fan.
The shield was a great show & needed 3 more seasons but they kept the quality of writing high, where Sons of Anarchy needed 3 more seasons so they just dumped everyone into 1 final season 7 & forgot about the writing & ended up ruining the legacy of the show & any real shot Mayans MC had.
It is no surprise to me Gladys Rodriguez was not asked to write for Mayans MC, though to be fair the very successful Sons of Anarchy staff writers ( from season 1 to 5 ) were not involved also in that project that suffered because of the really dreadful final season 7 as that turned off viewers from this genre.
The most important part of any show is the writing, as everything else has to evolve from that as great actors still need great scripts to make a great show.
