Season finale review: Banshee ‘A Mixture of Madness’ – I Guess You Owe Me One

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 for a rowdy little adventure out in the woods. But everything that's toted as a big event is really just precursor - as a season …

Review: Banshee ‘Always The Cowboy’ – Do Not Fuck With Me

There's no rest for the wicked in 'Always the Cowboy', as Ana and Lucas scramble around, awaiting Rabbit's inevitable arrival in Banshee. Relentless from the opening shot, 'Always the Cowboy' is an hour of effective tension building, even if it reveals some of its big seasonal arcs to be a bit thin. Of course, the …

Review: Banshee ‘We Shall Live Forever’ – Suddenly Everyone Knows My Name

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. Constructed around a brutal, exposition-packed fight scene, 'We Shall Live Forever' firmly puts its foot on the gas pedal heading into what look to be an …

Review: Banshee ‘Behold a Pale Rider’ – Welcome To My World

Underneath all the sex and bloodied limbs, Banshee's done a solid job establishing a cast of characters struggling to find a new direction. Those new directions come crashing to a halt in 'Behold a Pale Rider', arguably the most thrilling episode of Banshee to date - and unsurprisingly  the least violent and naked of the seven episodes thus far. …

Review: Banshee ‘Wicks’ – Heaven For Cons

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 to Banshee, and Ana makes a life-altering decision about her situation. An episode about ghosts - some physical, some literal - 'Wicks' is all about …

Review: Banshee ‘The Kindred’ – Following The Stench

If there's one thing Banshee's done well in the first half of its freshman season, it's capturing tension. Part of this is inherent from the premise: having a show about big lies and secrets essentially makes the narrative a ticking time bomb, with small explosions scattered about when these secrets inevitably come to light. Banshee's done a …