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Sons of Anarchy: Walton Goggins on Playing the Softer Side of Venus Van Dam

[WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from Tuesday's episode of Sons of Anarchy. Read at your own risk.]

Tuesday's episode of Sons of Anarchy took viewers deeper inside the history of Venus Van Dam.

Sons of AnarchyJustified's Walton Goggins on his jaw-dropping Cameo

Although the transsexual escort — played by The Shield and Justified star Walton Goggins — was introduced as part of a comedic blackmail scheme last season, the character's most recent appearance took a more serious, emotional turn.  When Gemma (Katey Sagal) tells a jailed Nero (Jimmy Smits) that Venus turned up at Nero's place with a shiner after a family altercation regarding Venus' "nephew," Nero urges Gemma to ask Jax (Charlie Hunnam) to help Venus out.

As Venus explains to Jax and the boys...  read full article

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Season 7, Episode 14
An upstart mayoral candidate troubles Aceveda. Shane, pinned down by the cops with his family, takes desperate action. Dutch interrogates Lloyd about Rita's disappearance.

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Season 7, Episode 13
As Vic hopes his immunity deal will help keep his family together, and Shane takes extreme measures to keep his pregnant wife from being charged with murder, Dutch finds he’s a suspect in the disappearance of a teenage serial killer’s mother.

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Season 7, Episode 12
As Mara kills in order to keep her and Shane on the run, the confession Vic makes in exchange for immunity and to salvage his career stuns his federal handlers.

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Season 7, Episode 11
As Claudette and Dutch work to get Mara and Corrine’s cooperation, and Vic offers to negotiate a drug deal between Beltran and city’s gangs, Shane threatens to expose the Strike Team’s criminal past.

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Sons of Anarchy: Walton Goggins on Playing the Softer Side of Venus Van Dam

[WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from Tuesday's episode of Sons of Anarchy. Read at your own risk.]

Tuesday's episode of Sons of Anarchy took viewers deeper inside the history of Venus Van Dam.

Sons of AnarchyJustified's Walton Goggins on his jaw-dropping Cameo

Although the transsexual escort — played by The Shield and Justified star Walton Goggins — was introduced as part of a comedic blackmail scheme last season, the character's most recent appearance took a more serious, emotional turn.  When Gemma (Katey Sagal) tells a jailed Nero (Jimmy Smits) that Venus turned up at Nero's place with a shiner after a family altercation regarding Venus' "nephew," Nero urges Gemma to ask Jax (Charlie Hunnam) to help Venus out.

As Venus explains to Jax and the boys... read more

Boardwalk Empire, The Client List Vets Join 50 Cent's Starz Drama Power

The Client List alum Naturi Naughton, Lela Loren (The Shield) and Boardwalk Empire's Joseph Sikora have joined the cast of Power, Starz's new drama series from executive producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, the cable channel announced Tuesday.

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Top Moments: Dancing Rings Our Bell and Hot Chick Rebel Wilson Schools Conan

Our top moments of the week:

14. Deadliest Temper Tantrum: On The Originals, Klaus tries to rectify the fact that he turned over his daggered brother to his current foe. After a drawn-out plan that costs quite a few lives, Klaus leads Marcel to believe he saved him and, in turn, would return his brother. But in the final scene, Marcel's bratty little mini-witch throws a hissy fit and refuses to give back Elijah before learning how to kill an Original. Klaus better steer clear of Rebekah when she finds out their brother is still gone. 

13. Most Mysterious Transformation: On Tuesday's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., viewers get yet another hint as to who or what Agent Coulson is after his death in The Avengers. Coulson and the team help save his former protégé, who is surprised by how different he is from when she knew him. "But what did they do to him?" she questions Melinda May. Seriously, we're asking... read more

Exclusive: Justified's Walton Goggins to Guest-Star on Community

Community's fifth season renewal has now been Justified. Walton Goggins will guest-star on an upcoming episode of the NBC comedy, TV Guide Magazine has learned.

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Graceland Leads USA Into Dark Waters

Picture-perfect locale? Check. Beautiful people who happen to solve crimes? Check. At first glance, USA's new series Graceland seems perfectly in step with the rest of the cable network's famous "blue sky" brand.

But it only takes the first five minutes of the pilot for the drug needles to come out, for a man to get shot, and for viewers to realize that the forecast isn't as sunny as it seems. "It's a little more... read more

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Premise: A corrupt and brutal L.A. detective runs an elite squad by his own rules in a neighborhood ravaged by drugs and gangs. Unusually gritty and graphically violent, but seldom less than riveting, 'The Shield' gets its biggest jolt from the breakout performance by Michael Chiklis as the complex and volatile Vic Mackey. The drama made Emmy history when he won for Lead Actor in a Drama in 2002, the first such win for a basic-cable series.

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