'Mayans MC' Continues Violent Tradition of 'Sons of Anarchy'
by EG
Sons of Anarchy gloried in violence, and so far its spin off, Mayans MC, is no different. Already in the beginning of the series' first season, dismemberment and death are part of the scenery. Read on for details.
[This story contains spoilers for season one, episode two of FX's Mayans MC, "Escorpion/Dzec," as well as major spoilers from Kurt Sutter's Sons of Anarchy.]
If the death-by-dismemberment featured in the series premiere wasn't enough to indicate the level of violence at play in Mayans MC, then the second episode of FX's biker drama sure did the trick.
Bloodshed and brutality were cornerstones of the series' second installment, "Escorpion/Dzec," by way of a few different father-son dynamics. In one corner, there's Miguel Galindo (Danny Pino), the vicious crime lord whose infant son was abducted at the start of the episode, ripped away from his mother (Sarah Bolger as Emily Thomas) in the dead of night moments after a bodyguard was shot to death. Later in the episode, Galindo learns that his own baby brother was abducted years earlier under similar circumstances, and was ultimately sacrificed when his father wouldn't pay ransom. History seems primed to repeat itself, as Galindo exits the episode with an apparent willingness to sacrifice his own child.
With that said, Galindo won't lose his child without a fight, which he makes clear by way of targeting a local man and his son, whom he believes are connected to the kidnapping. First, Galindo has the man tortured, splashed with a hot vat of oil. Later, members of the Mayans see how Galindo finished the job, as the bodies of the man and his son are dumped in the middle of a town square, their charred remains still sizzling from being burned to death.
Through the two episodes released thus far, it's easily the most barbaric act in Mayans MC lore. While it's one of the most nauseating moments of the young series, it's nothing new to viewers familiar with Sons of Anarchy, Kurt Sutter's original biker drama that paved the way for Mayans MC's existence. Over the course of seven seasons of the Northern California-set series, Sons of Anarchy unleashed ruthless amounts of violence upon almost everyone in its path, good and bad guys alike.
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