Tommy Flanagan’s Chibs, meanwhile, is like Sons of Anarchy’s version of The Joker, in that he has a dark sense of humor that is only ever a split-second away from turning violent.
And then there’s Kim Coates’ Tig, who never met a sexual fetish he didn’t try at least three times, on three different kinds of intoxicants.
Ryan Hurst’s Opie is arguably the show’s biggest sympathy magnet, and Hurst plays him as close to a human teddy bear (with a mean streak) as it gets.