The day after Sons of Anarchy Season 5 came to a shocking end, creator Kurt Sutter jumped on the phone with reporters and spilled some nuggets regarding Season 6.

To wit:

• Donal Logue will return for 7-8 episodes as Lee Toric.
• The status of Jimmy Smits and Drea de Matteo is unknown, but Sutter would love to have each back.
• Future episodes will delve into the relationship of Jax and Bobby, as well as Jax and Chibs, who Sutter now sees as the new Opie, Jax's true right-hand man.
• The bond between Jax and Gemma will be stronger than ever when the series returns.
• Sutter is still weighing how much time will have gone by between seasons; it may be a couple weeks, it may be a few months.

Fans, of course, need to wait months for any of these developments to go down. Weigh in now and grade Season 5:

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