Like True Blood, Banshee is best when it embraces its outlandish story with a sense of humor. (Would that New York daytime traffic were ever fast enough for a truck to crash that dramatically!)

Banshee is a big action-delivery machine, starting from a ludicrously summer-movie-like chase scene that ends with an overturned truck skidding Michael BayвЂ“style across a Manhattan avenue. DonвЂ™t expect any SFU-style brooding and introspection here. Overnight, Lucas finds himself keeping order in what is apparently the bloodiest town in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, all while mob thugs from New York are trying to hunt him down.Д«anshee comes to us from Alan Ball, who created the dark family drama Six Feet Under for HBO, but with True Blood showed off a sexy, pulp, hypersanguinous sensibility that is probably a better fit for todayвЂ™s skin-and-Cinemax. Oh, and his old gal-pal in crime? SheвЂ™s now living in town under the name Carrie (Ivana Milicevic), with a family and husband, who happens to be the district attorney. Lucas, he learns, was brought in from out of town because his predecessors were all in the pocket of Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen), local business leader and crime boss. (ItвЂ™s The Riches, with more murders.) He must quickly get up to speed. So our guy is now the new sheriff in town. Our guy finds himself surrounded by dead bodies and opportunity: to take the identity of the sheriff, Lucas Hood, who (what a coincidence!) fortunately appears to have hardly any family or friends, a Facebook page or any other identifying track record of any kind. His first night in town he visits a bar where he meets (what a coincidence!) the townвЂ™s sheriff, who (what a coincidence!) just got into town that day himself and (what a coincidence!) immediately gets himself killed in an attempted robbery at the bar. But at best itвЂ™s terribly, entertainingly superfluous.Д«ack to the premise: our protagonist (Antony Starr)вЂ“he has a name but wonвЂ™t be using it for longвЂ“tracks his ex down to the town of Banshee, Penn., in Amish country. Yet here it is going back to an old pattern: a ludicrously violent, familiarly dark, stylistically sex-soaked drama about a brooding antihero who gets numerous excuses to separate bad guys from their teeth and miscellaneous women from their clothes.

Cable TV has the world in front of it, endless possibilities for telling new stories about different kinds of experience. ThatвЂ™s similar to what I felt when I watched Banshee (Cinemax, Fridays). The friend, a transvestite named Job (Hoon Lee), is aghast: вЂњYouвЂ™ve got the whole world in front of you, and youвЂ™re going to the one place you absolutely should not go.вЂќ To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Follow the pilot of Banshee, our protagonist has just gotten out from a long stint in prison, bangs a random bartenderess, then goes to see an old friend about his next move: he wants to look up his old lover and partner in crime, with whom he pulled the heist that put him away. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click вЂCustomise CookiesвЂ™ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

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