Paris Barclay on ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Season 6 Finale: ‘Really, a Fork?’

Sutter wrote 19 episodes of “The Shield,” FX’s critically-acclaimed police drama, with Barclay directing three episodes during its seven season run. Having worked with each other since 2002, the filmmakers have a shorthand on “SOA” that fares well on set as well as in the writer’s room.
“It’s great having Paris, because I have a producer and a director who’s also a writer, and so the lines of communication are direct,” said Sutter. “We very rarely have to say much. The communication is really at a shorthand. And it’s a good for me, it’s a really rare and special creative connection.”
So how does this connection materialize on set?
“I will say things like, ‘Does it have to be a fork,’ every once in a while,” Barclay explains, referring to the stunning season six finale, when a major character was killed off with a fork to the head. “I mean, really, a fork? And how long a fork? I mean, we’ve lived with that for a while.”
In addition to executive producing the last season of “Sons of Anarchy,” the 58-year-old native of Chicago Heights, IL is also the current president of the Director’s Guild of America, having helmed more than 135 episodes of television to date – most recently the 100th episode of “Glee” and an episode of “The Good Wife.”