This series started well and now is going off the scale. Incredible! This is, at least 3 episodes in, by far the best series I've seen since Game Of Thrones, Breaking Bad and Hannibal. The protagonist is up there with anti-heroes like Dexter, Dr House, Hannibal Lecter and Walter White. The rest of the cast are great too.
And, oh my, I cannot remember an episode getting me this pumped up! It's manipulative stuff, but it's so well done!
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Baskin Robins newest TV flavor: CRAZY
A_Different_Drummer8 August 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Gotta love Cinemax. On the heels of their success with Strike Back (a remarkably elegant little series, with a cinema-quality feel, hindered only by the fact that the strongest character was gratuitously killed in the first season, and the predictable weekly plot device is that NO MISSON EVER WORKS PROPERLY) they dug deep in into the talent drawer (Alan Ball for one) and produced this "dirty dancing" version of Justified.
With no apologies.
As professional critics have noted, where the series lacks a mushy marshmallow core, it substitutes a generous dollop of pure and simple "crazy." Works for me.
This, only the third episode, telegraphs to the viewer that, if the series is allowed to continue (and it was, 3rd season now in production) you're not in Kansas anymore.
The newbie viewer would be forgiven for being duped by a premature emotional high early on, when Anna drops her gentle housewife act and takes out a bunch of big city pros in order to deliver an ultimatum to the "real" series protagonist, played brilliantly by Ben Cross.
That's just the teaser. The climax of the episode, with Sheriff Hood, overage and underweight, delivering a can of whoop-ass to a professional UFC fighter, meets or exceeds the kick from the very first episode of Person of Interest, the latter generally acknowledged as setting the bar for getting the attention of the otherwise jaded viewer.
Good stuff.
With no apologies.
As professional critics have noted, where the series lacks a mushy marshmallow core, it substitutes a generous dollop of pure and simple "crazy." Works for me.
This, only the third episode, telegraphs to the viewer that, if the series is allowed to continue (and it was, 3rd season now in production) you're not in Kansas anymore.
The newbie viewer would be forgiven for being duped by a premature emotional high early on, when Anna drops her gentle housewife act and takes out a bunch of big city pros in order to deliver an ultimatum to the "real" series protagonist, played brilliantly by Ben Cross.
That's just the teaser. The climax of the episode, with Sheriff Hood, overage and underweight, delivering a can of whoop-ass to a professional UFC fighter, meets or exceeds the kick from the very first episode of Person of Interest, the latter generally acknowledged as setting the bar for getting the attention of the otherwise jaded viewer.
Good stuff.
Um, I believe "graphic" to be the right word
scottkursch17 April 2019
Well, it's hard to comment on anything else other than the graphic fight scene. As far as hand to hand cinematic fights go, that was about as poignant as I can recall. Dayum. Just not sure it gets a whole lot more graphic than that, at least for me. It's not always blood, guts, and gore that makes a fight graphic.
Certainly was effective in delivery of some shock value, as far as I'm concerned. Not for the sensitive minded.
Certainly was effective in delivery of some shock value, as far as I'm concerned. Not for the sensitive minded.
Whaooo!!!
searchanddestroy-116 February 2017
That's only the third episode I see of this series and I am more than amazed, I am thrilled at one hundred percent. I know that I am only at the beginning but I am sure for the rest of the series. I was glued to my coach whilst I watched the fist fight between the hero, the hood - sheriff Hood - impersonating the sheriff, fighting against the prize fighter after he beat a poor woman to death. I hoped the "sheriff" to eat the prize fighter's liver, eat his brain out, this S.O.B who beats women. This topic of a crime story taking place in the deep country land with a local kingpin whose the whole town belong to him, reminds me ROAD HOUSE or the WALKING TALL films too. And many other items, such as the first Dwayne Johnson's films. The lead character looks very like the late Paul Walker.
Banshee earns it's heavyweight title
frasercameron-491356 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This episode was amazing and a cut above the rest when it comes to your 90s tough guy lead shows. Hood's no Jack Reacher, he doesn't effortlessly beat world class MMA champions. He plays dirty and isn't afraid to get down in the mud to get things done. More importantly he doesn't come out unscathed either, he's not bulletproof, in fact he gets the absolute beaten out of him. And all that hammers home to make us feel that Hood, in this crazy town of Banshee, is an actual real human that we can relate to. Not like these other gruff 'badass' heroes that are basically superman minus a cape. This was a fantastic episode in general and really lets us know that Lucas Hood, antihero, criminal, killer and worse, at the end of the day still sheds blood sweat and tears to do the right thing. And that's why we cant stop watching him.
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