Sons Shining as Club Gathers for Tense Family Dinner

There’s nothing like a quiet family dinner party. And Gemma’s potluck on this week’s “Son’s of Anarchy” was anything but quiet.
All sort of issues are coming to a head for our favorite motorcycle club this season. They guys are choosing sides between leader Clay and his step-son Jax. (The par threw down while in jail, and the older man still has a lot of fight left in him.)
They’re at war with neo-Nazis headed by Adam Arkin, feuding with the Mexican and the Irish, and the porn producer they went into business with was found between to death, probably by the rival smut peddler, played with extra sleaziness by Tom Arnold. On top of that, various members of federal law enforcement are sniffing around.
All of this led to near fisticuffs as Gemma gathered her clan.
Life with Jax and the Sons is no picnic for Tara either. She’s read John Teller’s manifesto for reclaiming the club but doesn’t see things improving. She calls Jax out on his lack of progress in effecting reforms.
“You keep saying you want to change things, but you can’t keep repeating your own behavior. You can’t have it both ways,” she says. 
He replies that he love the club so much he’ll protect it, no matter the cost, the damage it does to him. “Change won’t come fast. Or without blood. But it will happen,” he avers.
But her association with the Sons is also causing her grief at work, where she’s doing extracurricular work on various wounds and other trauma.
Tara is afraid of her supervisor, and won’t push to keep Chibs in the hospital while he recover. So Gemma enacts her own form of healthcare reform, cornering the supervisor in an elevator to press his case. The supervisor’s response: a hostile workplace complaint against Tara.
Usually almost no one messes with Gemma. She tells Tara she’s only been afraid of three women: her mother, her third grade math teacher and Chibs’ wife, who returns to Charming when her estranged husband’s hurt.
And at home, when she tells the boys to come to dinner, they come. And when they act up, she smashes a serving dish to get everyone’s attention.
The FX drama has been drawing a lot of good notices lately. And its recent ratings—beating NBC’s Jay Leno at 10 p.m.—shows that more people are noticing.