One show has Hood handcuffed to a hotel bed as hitmen close in, while miles away he's needed because armed gunmen have a hostage situation at Banshee's high school (Hood's daughter being one of the hostages). Indeed, in the barfight in the first episode Hood rams a beer bottle into an opponent's mouth then punches it down his throat. The fight ends after three – the final minute is spent with the winner messing up the fallen loser, breaking fingers, snapping bones, that sort of thing. It is an incredibly violent show: one episode features an epic smackdown lasting for four punishing minutes. The real revelation is Antony Starr as Hood: he's the kind of convincing anti-hero action star that cinema has failed to produce recently. Old hands such as Ben Cross as Rabbit, Frankie Faison as bar owner Sugar and Ulrich Thomsen ( Festen) as Proctor play it straight and give it credibility. Banshee (Sean Cassidy) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men.Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Werner Roth, the character first appeared in X-Men 28 (Jan. And the show is overseen by Alan Ball, who with Six Feet Under and True Blood has proved he knows a thing or two about hammering an unusual concept into great television. They're coming to TV fresh – it's all new to them. Part of the reason all this works so well is that the show's writer/creators, Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler, are both authors and novelists. Hood has to perform his sheriff duties (in his own manner: high on brutality, low on paperwork) while trying to work crimes of his own. Burned after losing his key witness against Proctor, Lucas is further dismayed when an FBI agent, Xavier, arrives to monitor the situation. Then there's the local Native-American-run casino, which everyone wants to get their hooks into. A band of marauding bikers crash the annual Banshee Spirit Festival, with deadly consequences. The town has several factions vying for a cut of the pie, notably Kai Proctor, a fallen member of the local Amish community turned slaughterhouse-owning crime kingpin. Actually, it helps to think of Banshee as a modern western. Impersonating a small-town sheriff is the sort of thing that works fine in a classic western but takes some explaining and coincidences to pull off these days. Following this so far? Banshee packs a lot in, so much action that you don't have time to stop and think about how silly the premise is. Anastasia has become Carrie Hopewell, a suburban wife and mother with a new life (although she does keep up with her combat training). The jewel thief, who we now know as Sheriff Lucas Hood, has come to Banshee to meet his ex-lover and accomplice Anastasia, who fled there to hide from the law and her terrifying Ukrainian gangster father, Mr Rabbit, whom she and Hood doublecrossed.
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