Banshee: The Complete Second Season (BD) [Blu-ray]

This is an astoundingly great follow-up to the ultra-violent season one. Sex scenes also abound, as everyone is sleeping with everyone else. There are so many characters, one might think it would be hard to follow just who is paired with whom and who is committing what crime, aided or opposed by whom, as loyalties and alliances fluctuate. There is incredible violence in every episode, and at some point, Lucas Hood starts wearing a bandage on his right wrist. He wears it right into season three, so he must have been badly injured in one of those fight scenes, no matter how carefully choreographed. Carrie's secret past - or some of it - has now been revealed, and her murderous Ukrainian father, a feared mob boss from NYC, is after her. Her daughter, Deva, now knows that Hood is her biological father, but she is following in both parents' footsteps by attempting to commit crimes. Proctor's niece, Rebecca, who was shunned by her Amish family and took shelter with him, is being initiated into his world of crime and taking to it with considerable enthusiasm. The new chief of the Kinaho tribe has to defend his reign against usurpers, while his sister makes no attempt to curb her murderous impulses. One of the best things about this series, which is crammed with subplots, is that time is managed to reveal the histories of characters and their interactions. I can't say that any are truly well-rounded - some, like Job, appear fully formed and never alter - but all are interesting. Even the most unlikeable have likeable moments, and even the most likeable can be repulsive. One thing to beware of: sooner or later, everyone dies. At the end of the day, no matter how much you've engaged with a character, that person will be gruesomely dead.

A pastoral small town, with a new sheriff; Manhattan; a strong male lead with incredible presence/piercing blue eyes (why isn't he famous yet??); stolen identities; Amish ( good... and good Amish gone BAD); Indians; and reservation sovereignty; three quirkily beautiful BADASS female leads; Asian drag queen with Attitude and MAD Skillz; a black ex-boxing champ, ex-con who owns the town bar, heart of gold; a strip club; neoNazi skinheads; murderous Ukrainian gangsters; obsessed FBI agents; computer nerd; blood; prison life; a deadly bow-tied, spiffy, accountant-like 'cleaner-fixer'; blood (mostly from fistfights...); stolen identities; TWO long-running psychopathic villains - coincidentally with MAJOR family issues; epic-ly star-crossed lovers; (explicit gratuitous sex and nudity...😞); love triangles; violence, blood and more violence; did I mention BLOOD?; heartbreak ; incest; secrets; a whole lotta daddy issues; mysteries; crimes; good and bad shifting places... over-and-over-and-over...Highest feature film production values. Superb scripting. Amazing acting. Edge-y editing. Several simultaneous storylines. Luminous lighting. NOT NOT NOT a cartoon, like the logo might indicate!!! Words do not do this series justice. Strap yourself in and turn on 'Banshee'...

Awesome show. This ranks up there with Justified. It has a lot of action and a descent story. It is a little unbelieveable that a sheriff can kill that many people, even if while on the job, and not have outside people looking into his actions. The story line is basically this: This guy gets released from jail after serving 15 years for robbing a diamond place. He then starts looking for his ex girlfriend who was with him but he let her escape while with the diamonds while he took the wrap. He finds her in the town of Banshee living under another name and married to the town DA. While in town, a man who is coming to be the new sheriff, who no one has actually met or seen, gets killed in a bar that was being robbed. The Ex con takes his identity and becomes the new sheriff. He then runs the town in a un conventinal way but it is effective. Oh ya, it is Omish country and the locally crime boss is an ex communicated Omish man. That is it in a wrap[ with out giving out to much info. Do as I did and rent the first episode form amazon and determine if this is your type of show.

There are some series that really have good Story Lines and have done a Great Job Picking Great Actors / Actresses to Fit those Characters, like "Justified", "Breaking Bad" !! This is One I Really Liked, Lots of Great Villians !!!I am Also Enjoying a New One, "Mr Inbetween" from Australia !!!

Explicit adult drama starring NZ actor Anthony Starr. Pretty good but story line is unbelievable ie. the good guy always comes through.

This season of Banshee is so entertaining that watching regular network TV after was painfully boring. My wife and I binge watched all the episodes over a 2 day period, if we didn't have jobs we would have watched all episodes in one night. If you are squeamish about violence and r rated sex then this is not for you. If you aren't then your in for a rollercoaster ride of multiple plot lines, great fight scenes, and also a study of morality. All the characters are multi- dimensional, so forget this show if you like obvious good guy bad guy paradigms. But if you like cutting edge plotlines and realistic portrayals of human emotions then this is for you. The unrealistic part is that many characters appear superhuman. This is an escape from reality, in that we see ordinary humans doing extra ordinary things. Strongly recommended as are many of the great shows on Amazon , like Veep, Transparent, and Catastrophe.