Anarchy

He plays Jax Teller, the golden-boy heir apparent to a violent, arms-dealing, drug-smuggling California biker gang. The tattooed Jax has killed for the club and served time in prison, but the outlaws are a tight brotherhood who will do anything to protect each other, their families and their lovely small town, Charming. He's haunted by letters from his late father - who wanted the club to go legit. But now, with a girlfriend and two young sons, the loyal Jax wants out of the club, even though it's the only family he has ever known.

Alabama-born Walton Goggins is best known for playing corrupt cop Shane Vendrell on "The Shield" and born-again ex-con Boyd Crowder on "Justified," which earned him an Emmy nomination; the crime drama returns for its fourth season Jan. 8. But Goggins also dispelled any preconceptions about his limits as an actor this year with divergent roles in the films "Django Unchained" and "Lincoln" as well as a recent guest spot on "Sons of Anarchy. " Did you get acting whiplash playing these wildly different roles, from crazed killer to transgender hooker?

'Sons of Anarchy' Where: FX When: 10 p.m. Tuesday Rating: TV-MA-LSV (may be unsuitable for children under the age of 17 with advisories for coarse language, sex and violence)

The fifth season finale of FX's outlaw motorcycle gang drama "Sons of Anarchy", which aired Tuesday night, scored one of its biggest audiences, cementing its status as one of TV's most elite and popular dramas. The episode of the series, which is the cable network's top-rated show, drew 4.67 million viewers -- its highest rated finale ever and the third-most watched episode ever. While longtime fans expressed enthusiasm over the numerous twists, turns and betrayals in the episode, some also noted that the level of graphic, horrific violence reached new heights this season, rivaling Martin Scorsese movies or other critically acclaimed series such as "Breaking Bad" and "Boardwalk Empire".

Freedom without restraints leads to anarchy. SIMON ZIMMELMAN Los Angeles

A group of Irish mobsters pulled up in an SUV outside a barn and makeshift gun warehouse, where a band of gang members parked their custom-made Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The men huddled inside the barn, as bodyguards in leather jackets and armed with chains and foot-long knives swatted away flies and eyed one another with suspicion. After a tense exchange, the men got down to business to discuss a weapons deal involving a Mexican cartel. Whether staging weapons deals, gunfights or motorcycle chases, the FX television series "Sons of Anarchy" is creating mayhem all over Los Angeles — and that's a good thing.

Actor Johnny Lewis, known for his role as  Kip "Half Sack" Epps in “Sons of Anarchy,” fell to his death Wednesday in a bizarre series of events. Police are investigating whether the 28-year-old actor may have been under the influence of drugs when he went on a rampage in which he allegedly fought with two men and beat to death an 81-year-old woman who may have rented a room to Lewis. It is believed Lewis died after falling from a roof or balcony.  In the FX drama, Lewis played a hopeful trying to join the outlaw motorcycle club.

People like President Reagan because--they say--he made America feel good about itself. That's a nice proposition until you think of the possibility of Americans running around feeling good about themselves when, in reality, things are terrible.

The fifth season finale of FX's outlaw motorcycle gang drama "Sons of Anarchy", which aired Tuesday night, scored one of its biggest audiences, cementing its status as one of TV's most elite and popular dramas. The episode of the series, which is the cable network's top-rated show, drew 4.67 million viewers -- its highest rated finale ever and the third-most watched episode ever. While longtime fans expressed enthusiasm over the numerous twists, turns and betrayals in the episode, some also noted that the level of graphic, horrific violence reached new heights this season, rivaling Martin Scorsese movies or other critically acclaimed series such as "Breaking Bad" and "Boardwalk Empire".

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Sept. 9 - 15 in PDF format This week's TV Movies   SUNDAY After Wednesday's opener, a new season of NFL Football kicks into high gear with a day's worth of games - including quarterback Peyton Manning's official debut in orange and blue when the Denver Broncos host the Pittsburgh Steelers. (NBC, 5:15 p.m.) The new special "9/11: Voices From the Air" uses cellphone messages, air traffic control transmissions and other recordings to reconstruct the events of that dark day in 2001.

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 2 - 8 in PDF format This week's TV Movies   SERIES The Voice:   This results episode features performances by Ne-Yo and Matchbox Twenty (8 p.m. NBC). Hart of Dixie: As Wade (Wilson Bethel) decides to ask Zoe (Rachel Bilson) out, she makes her own decision to bid on his picnic basket at the charity auction, but she's not the only interested bidder in this new episode (8 p.m. KTLA)

You won't find the town of Charming on any real map of California and the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club — with all of its schemes, politics and skull-cracking heritage — is nothing more, of course, than a dark fiction that rumbles to life on FX for an hour every Tuesday night. But, when you actually visit the bad-to-the-bone clubhouse that has been created on the set for "Sons of Anarchy," it's tempting to leave disbelief leaning on a chrome kickstand in the parking lot. The illusion of Charming's most dangerous den is especially hard to resist when you hear the croaky baritone of Clarence "Clay" Morrow, the old lion of the gang, who is leaning over the club's bar like a blackjack dealer waiting for the first mark of the night.

On paper, Johnny Lewis' acting career was looking up. The 28-year-old actor had spent two seasons playing Kip "Half Sack" Epps on the popular "Sons of Anarchy" motorcycle-gang drama and was steadily landing movie roles. But behind the scenes, Lewis was unraveling. He was arrested three times this year, drowning in drugs and mental health issues, according to court records and those who knew him. The problems culminated Wednesday in a bizarre altercation in Los Feliz, where police say the actor fatally bludgeoned his 81-year-old landlady and attacked a painter and a neighbor before falling to his death.

Actor Johnny Lewis, known for his role as  Kip "Half Sack" Epps in “Sons of Anarchy,” fell to his death Wednesday in a bizarre series of events. Police are investigating whether the 28-year-old actor may have been under the influence of drugs when he went on a rampage in which he allegedly fought with two men and beat to death an 81-year-old woman who may have rented a room to Lewis. It is believed Lewis died after falling from a roof or balcony.  In the FX drama, Lewis played a hopeful trying to join the outlaw motorcycle club.

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Sept. 9 - 15 in PDF format This week's TV Movies   SUNDAY After Wednesday's opener, a new season of NFL Football kicks into high gear with a day's worth of games - including quarterback Peyton Manning's official debut in orange and blue when the Denver Broncos host the Pittsburgh Steelers. (NBC, 5:15 p.m.) The new special "9/11: Voices From the Air" uses cellphone messages, air traffic control transmissions and other recordings to reconstruct the events of that dark day in 2001.

He plays Jax Teller, the golden-boy heir apparent to a violent, arms-dealing, drug-smuggling California biker gang. The tattooed Jax has killed for the club and served time in prison, but the outlaws are a tight brotherhood who will do anything to protect each other, their families and their lovely small town, Charming. He's haunted by letters from his late father - who wanted the club to go legit. But now, with a girlfriend and two young sons, the loyal Jax wants out of the club, even though it's the only family he has ever known.

Anarchists, by definition, are not supposed to be organized. But on Genoa's embattled streets, they appear to have assumed specialized tasks inside the largest gathering of protesters ever to confront a meeting of world leaders. They have window smashers who target banks and shops, and looters who move in amid the broken glass. When police arrive, fire-bombers duck into alleys to pour gasoline into bottles while stone-throwers gather their weapons in grocery carts.

Crying and pulling at her hair, a woman in high heels picked her way through mobs of looters on the crowded Via Espana. "They put a gun to my head and stole my car!" she shrieked. Around the corner at a neighborhood grocery store, a businessman, frantic and frightened, drew a revolver from his pocket. "I've never used one of these in my life," he muttered, "but we are protecting our building."

Vampires, zombies, serial killers and a host of other evildoers roam wild over the pop culture landscape. And when they come to prime time, you can be sure there will be blood. The flesh-eating undead of AMC's "The Walking Dead" relentlessly stalk survivors. Bloodsuckers and blood lust — among other forms of lust — abound in HBO's "True Blood. " The serial killer of serial killers, Dexter Morgan, carries out his own brutal brand of vigilante justice on Showtime's "Dexter. " And creative homicidal psychopaths routinely keep the dogged investigators from "Criminal Minds," "Bones" and the "CSI" franchises on their toes.