Banshee tv reviews series#

The questions swirling around Hood's true nature have easily usurped the questions regarding Hood's true identity.

Banshee tv reviews series#

Instead, under the stewardship of showrunner Greg Yaitanes, the series has gone from straightforward, pulp-driven excess, to a nuanced, beguilingly layered, and progressively more substantial series that has consistently delivered meatier characterizations, storylines, and performances from which it may pull back its frequently bloodied knuckles.ДЄll season long, Banshee has been dealing with the question of just who the show's unnamed protagonist really is вЂ“ meaning: who does the man playing Lucas Hood want to be, now that he can ostensibly become anyone? He's free to be himself, but why does he persist at being Lucas Hood? The answer to that question is more than the show can answer in a single season, and it's more than perhaps the show should want to answer, given the quality of the stories that have emerged from such an inquiry. The show hasn't suddenly gone off the deep end or forgotten it was intended to display a dizzying succession of outrageous fights, shootouts, and action set pieces. In order to climb those heights, season 2 had to be different from its predecessor in many ways, but noticeably, those differences really couldn't bring around a drastic change with regard to the narrative. It's only March, but as its second season comes to a close, with the pivotal and potentially game-changing 'Bullets and Tears,' Banshee has easily found itself at the top of the most dramatically improved series of 2014.

If you've been keeping up with Cinemax's pulpy crime drama Banshee in season 2 (and hopefully you have), you've likely noticed that episode-to-episode, the show looked, sounded, and even felt different from the series that may or may not have hooked you as a viewer in season 1.