Staying true to its pulpy roots, Banshee finished a brutal first season with a blood and bullet filled season finale, teaming up the law enforcers of Banshee with the Lucas’s lawless friends….
Carefully constructed lies and identities come crashing down to Earth in ‘We Shall Live Forever’, a Banshee episode that moves at such a breakneck pace, it’s almost hard to absorb everything.
Underneath all the sex and bloodied limbs, Banshee‘s done a solid job establishing a cast of characters struggling to find a new direction.
Last week opened some of the cracks in the various facades being portrayed across Banshee – and this week, those identities are further splintered when an old prison friend of Lucas’s returns….
If there’s one thing Banshee‘s done well in the first half of its freshman season, it’s capturing tension.
There’s a downside sometimes to the freedoms of cable television: shows can become self-indulgent in their gratuitous use of nudity, violence, language and/or drug use.
As humans, we’re instinctively against change, even if it’s something we seek.
Like the pilot, ‘The Rave’ hints at a lot of what is to come in the first season of Banshee – Proctor’s politics, the Lucas Hood identity, and the story of Not….
Cinemax has been getting their feet wet in serialized dramas recently, importing promising action series Strike Back and Hunted from the UK
