Sons of Anarchy Season 2 Continues to be a Ratings Winner

Sons of Anarchy Season 2 just refuse to take its hand off the throttle.

FX's biker drama Sons of Anarchy has been averaging around 4 million viewers all season, but Tuesday's episode — which pulled in 3.7 million viewers to handily win the night among cable channels — was competitive with the major networks in the adults 18-49 demographic. More significantly, Sons' 2.2 rating outperformed both The Jay Leno Show (1.8) and ABC's The Forgotten (2.0) in the demo.

SOA creator and executive producer Kurt Sutter related that networks have opened themselves up to being beaten by cable by producing the same shows over and over.

"I have a director friend... who says the job of a network executive is to turn everything to sh--," Sutter wrote. "They hire you to stop them from doing that. Unfortunately, the sh---turners are winning. Nowadays it's all about formula.... You hope that no one notices that it's the same old crap repackaged. But folks always do. In recovery, the "definition of insanity" is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Primetime is an active asylum." I am glad the view do not see SOA as part of that insanity.