'Sons of Anarchy' News: Why Parents Television Council Blasted Show As One Of The 'Worst' On All Of Television [VIDEO]
The Parents Television Council is definitely not a fan of FX's Sons of Anarchy as the organization recently listed the show as one of the worst on television.
Tim Winter, president of the Parents Television Council, recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly on a variety of issues, including Sons of Anarchy's use of excessive sex and violence. With the organization hoping to protect children from seeing such excess on television, he believes that SOA is one of the worst shows on television in this regard.
"Certainly the word 'morality' is present with what we do, but we base most of our work on what science says is harmful to kids, and what is certainly offensive to a lot of families," Winter said. "We're very concerned about Stalker. It's a show that's very dark, very graphically explicit. When you go over to the cable side, a show like Sons of Anarchy."
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He did admit that Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter "has every right" to make the show, it's just the fact that they are "forced" to pay for it as FX is included in their cable bundle.
Sons of Anarchy featured an extended sex montage at the beginning of episode 10 of their final season, a sequence that caused Winter to release a statement that proclaimed families in America were essentially paying for "pornography."
While the Parents Television Council tend to be focused on the amount of sex on television, they are also focused on calling out extreme violence as well.
"They're both harmful. The scientific evidence talks about sexual content and how it affects young children, especially the violence," Winter told Entertainment Weekly. "We talked about the sex scene on Sons of Anarchy because it was groundbreaking in terms of the entire platform of basic cable. The sex montage was the most explicit scene we'd ever seen on basic cable. But we absolutely condemn the explicit violence as well. We don't have the same leverage as we do on the broadcast side with the sexual content and the profanity because of the way the law is written."
Despite having various setbacks, the Parents Television Council continues to "keep fighting" on various issues.
Sons of Anarchy concluded its run at the beginning of the month to record ratings for FX.
