5.4 Stolen Huffy What this leaves us with is a kind of lopsided episode. There’s a fine tribute to Opie and some… well some other stuff. The majority of screen time outside of Opie’s funeral is given to Gemma following her being bailed out of jail by Wendy (how short on friends is Gemma that she relies on Wendy to pick her up from jail?). When Gemma wasn’t stirring up trouble between Tara and Wendy, it was between Tara and Carla. Gemma convinces Tara that Carla is behind Jax falling off his bike and a rather nasty fight follows. So far in this series, Tara’s character has suffered from some fairly poor writing – she goes between being a loving mother and beating the hell out of people. I get that the writers want to show the duality of Tara’s character, but it sometimes comes across like multiple personality disorder. It was good to see Lyla brought back in, following Opie’s death, as she had really distanced herself from the club in the previous series. Given what happened to Opie, Jax probably feels obliged to make sure that Lyla and Opie’s kids are looked after. I’m not sure where they could take her character from here, I had assumed that she’d be written out in one way or another following Opie’s death. Despite the great send-off for Opie, Stolen Huffy is a pretty non-eventful episode. Obviously, when writers kill off a major character, there are a lot of things to deal with in the following instalment, but this one never really seemed to get going. Hopefully we’ll be back to business as usual at SAMCRO next week. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
