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[RatskyWatsky]

this show has some immediate ultraviolence I like more.

Also consider checking out Strike Back if you haven't. The violence is more militaristic/weapons based than Banshee, but it's ultraviolent and satisfying much in the same way that Banshee is.

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Thanks, that's fantastic!!

 

[wenis]

I love that this show still plays with hood's actual size during fights. like they're not playing down that he's a short and smaller guy in most cases.

 

[rocketskates]

So was Hood just OK with letting that woman he got the tip from die? He painted a target on her back with that warrant. Of course Kai will figure out it must have been her and order her murder but Hood didn't even pretend to protect her.

Not sure what's Rebecca's angle. She's she one who pointed the finger to that woman. Maybe she had a change of heart or she's trying to divert any potential future blame because she seems like eying Proctor's seat. Having said that, she did share with Kai Alex's intentions.

With her gone she also can't testify. While I do feel it was she had a chance of heart, does like that seat a lot.

 

[BlackNMild2k1]

I'm slowly playing catch up on this series, Sheriff Hood is a crazy sumbich, and we've seen every attractive woman on this show topless at some point.
But what was up with s2e5? Did they bring in a guest director from one of Ryan Goslings last 2 "indie" movies (Drive & Only God Forgives)?

 

[MisterFalcon]

Major reveal from the final episode, who saw THIS coming !!!

(Matthew Rauch was on The Good Wife this week)

 

[Hours Left]

Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl

Excellent song and great placement within the episode.

Thanks.

 

[Munin]

I liked S1 then watched the first episode S2 and haven't continued since. I guess the overall consensus here is that it is very disappointing? Maybe I should just wait and see how S3 pans out and continue depending on that.

 

[Hours Left]

I liked S1 then watched the first episode S2 and haven't continued since. I guess the overall consensus here is that it is very disappointing? Maybe I should just wait and see how S3 pans out and continue depending on that.

The first episode of this season is the only bad one out of the bunch IMO. The rest have been enjoyable. Not as much as the first season, but still worth watching. The last episode was really great.

 

[Cornballer]

- Sneak peek scene from the finale (please spoiler tag any discussion)

 

[RatskyWatsky]

I liked S1 then watched the first episode S2 and haven't continued since. I guess the overall consensus here is that it is very disappointing? Maybe I should just wait and see how S3 pans out and continue depending on that.

Season 2 is still worth watching, it's just not as balls to the wall crazy action packed as the first season.

 

[Cornballer]

- Playboy.com: An Interview with Banshee's Showrunner Greg Yaitanes (some NSFW sidebar ads)

 

[Cornballer]

- One more sneak peek from tomorrow's finale (please spoiler tag any discussion)

 

[Cornballer]

- Men's Fitness: A 20-Minute Session with the Badass from Banshee

Men’s Fitness chats with Antony Starr about taking hits like a champ, the connection with his main character, and why Banshee’s following is exploding.

 

[Cornballer]

- Ivana Milicevic talks with Access Hollywood about Banshee (~7 min vid interview)

 

[Cornballer]

Season finale tonight:

Bullets and Tears

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Season Two Finale. Fueled by the painful memories that led them to this point of no return, Lucas and Carrie steel themselves for the fight of their lives, against a vengeful Rabbit and his ruthless soldiers. In Banshee, Rebecca proves her allegiance as Proctor returns home.

 

[Cornballer]

- Access Hollywood interview with Antony Starr

 

[Cornballer]

More sneak peek scenes from tonight's finale: (probably some overlap with the ones that I already posted)
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- 2
- 3

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Season finale! YES! Let's do this thang!

 

[vikki]

Kick ass episode.

I always think Sugar would be good company to drink with.

 

[Macattk15]

Decent enough.

Wonder what is going to happen next season.

 

[Cornballer]

- Onion A|V Club review

 

[finowns]

Whoa at the last 10 minutes. Come to me season 3!

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Emmett

 

[hokahey]

I thought Season 2 was incredible. I loved season 1, but season 2 had better characters, better writing and even better action. Finale was miles above anything from season 1. It went from fun, campy action to a full blown pulp action work of art.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

Bought a top of the line 1080p TV today. Did not watch tonight's episode due to cleaning the room, etc. Going to be a few days before getting everything straight.

I could not wait to buy a 4K TV.. had to buy 1080p LED..

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If anybody could donate a Denon Blu Ray player and AVR, I would appreciate it..lol HDMI

 

[dorkimoe]

I enjoyed season. 2. My only complaint is that after awhile the split scenes going back n fourth got annoying. Not the flashbacks the other things.

Also lol at out of all the violence and deaths. The cliffhanger for the most part is being called dad. Haha.

Can't wait until next year though.

 

[Hours Left]

The last 20 minutes were NUTS. It's no secret that I didn't care for the Rabbit storyline, but I understand that they needed to give it its due, but man did everything afterward feel 100 times more interesting. I'm quite glad that next season seems like it will be back to the stuff that makes Banshee so great, the craziness in Banshee. Though overall I thought it was still a good season.

Burton for series regular in season 3 please.

 

[wenis]

Kinda zoned out for the entire Rabbit storyline, but the rest... holy moly. need to digest it all still.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Pretty good finale, though I'm not sure if all of the flashbacks were necessary. Some of them were fun (Hood and Olec's fight scene, Job as a drag queen) but most of them were just retreads of stuff we've seen before, and not just on the show, but also via the comic and the Origins webisodes. It felt like they were padding the episode out a bit. But the rest was pretty fun and the last 15 minutes were bonkers.

Bring on season three!

Other thoughts:

I can't believe Julian Sands signed on for such an insignificant part. He was on screen for about a total of 5 minutes and the most interesting thing he did was in a webisode! Lame :/

Emmett's death was pointless. He was a cool character and there was no reason to kill him off. It just felt like they wanted one more Shocking Moment so they threw that in there for the hell of it. This does open up a new slot on Hood's Police Team, hopefully to be filled by someone awesome, but still.

Rebecca killing Alex felt kind of weird (not to mention gruesome and fucked up ). I get that it served to show how she's quickly becoming Kai's replacement/partner, ruthless and hungry for power in her own right, but at the same time it felt kind of random, sort of like the mayor/governor/whoever's death in last season's finale when they blew up the hotel. It seemed like they were setting him up for bigger things and then BAM! Dead. I guess the writers are adopting GRRM's way of doing things. :s

Who else thinks that Rebecca and Kai are going to fuck next season? That shower/bedroom scene was something else...

Chayton's coming back! Aww yiss!

Anyone else notice the Strike Back billboard in the background of the scene where Carrie and Hood are driving down the highway just after killing Rabbit?

Bought a top of the line 1080p TV today.

Noiceee

I'm quite glad that next season seems like it will be back to the stuff that makes Banshee so great, the craziness in Banshee.

Yeah. Now that the Rabbit storyline is finally

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finally

over with, we can move on to bigger and better and NEW things. I feel like this season ended where last season should have ended - with Rabbit dead and everyone going into the next season with a fresh start.

And looking back, there really was no reason to keep Rabbit alive at the end of last season. He didn't really even do anything this year, outside of sending an assassin after Carrie and Hood.

 

[Tokubetsu]

That ending was straight up blood sport.

Emmett's death did feel like a waste but I can understand if they wanted to write that actor out, but still light a fire under the remaining characters asses.

 

[vikki]

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Anyone think they might be setting up Chayton's people to fight the Skinheads? You've got two gangs that have a similar view of how things should be, but they hate each other.

 

[Zaph]

What a terrible disappointment season 2 has been. With a show like Banshee, you don't go in expecting the writing quality of Breaking Bad or True Detective, but you definitely don't expect to be bored. The whole season felt like the plot of a 2 hour epilogue for season 1, but stretched over 10 hours. They couldn't even fill the finale without interjecting flashbacks which retreaded stuff we already knew and gave us no additional insight into the characters or the Banshee universe and only seemed to exist to set up the mirroring of Hood sacrificing himself before and being willing to do it again.

Maybe I'm being overly critical, because while watching season 1 I did wonder if much of the momentum was due to the chaos of creating this larger-than-life, comic book-esqe universe and not something maintainable for a tv show without having a revolving door of characters and settings.

 

[Cornballer]

- NY Mag: Hoon Lee on Banshee's Season-2 Finale and His Hope for Season 3

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Good finale, but that's hardly saying much when the season as a whole has felt more like filler than anything else.

Hardly any of the characters have grown, apart from Rebecca and maybe Siobhan , and the entire season was really held back by the writers decision to not kill Rabbit at the end of the last season. Keeping him around for season 2 was completely pointless...I'll never understand the decision behind it.

Also really disappointed they killed both Alex and Emmett. Alex I can somewhat understand, it leaves the door open for Nola to return and Chayton (great to see him again) possibly pushing to take the place of Chief, but Emmett's death really served no purpose other than doing it for the shock value...could have just as easily left it with the character leaving so the door was open for him to return.

Overall, it's been a disappointing season after the fantastic first, but I hope they writers find their ground again now that the Rabbit arc is finally over with...

One last thing, the church shoot-out was fantastic. Loved every second of it. Also hoping we see more of Fat Al next season.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

What a terrible disappointment season 2 has been. With a show like Banshee, you don't go in expecting the writing quality of Breaking Bad or True Detective, but you definitely don't expect to be bored. The whole season felt like the plot of a 2 hour epilogue for season 1, but stretched over 10 hours. They couldn't even fill the finale without interjecting flashbacks which retreaded stuff we already knew and gave us no additional insight into the characters or the Banshee universe and only seemed to exist to set up the mirroring of Hood sacrificing himself before and being willing to do it again.

Maybe I'm being overly critical, because while watching season 1 I did wonder if much of the momentum was due to the chaos of creating this larger-than-life, comic book-esqe universe and not something maintainable for a tv show without having a revolving door of characters and settings.

I don't think you are. There was a lot of potential after the first season, namely with Hood's secret possibly being found out and they squandered it all to bring back Rabbit instead. What a waste of what could have been a very tense season...

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Oh -

YOU CAN'T KILL ME, YOU STUPID CUNT. I'M THE THUNDERMAN!!

The delivery of that line was hilarious.

 

[Saty]

Crappy final note for a bad season. What a disappointing Yulish-Rabbit shootout. That's it? Last season was much better. Throwing suspense of belief out of the window with i don't know how many guys with AKs surrounding 2 people and can't hit shit. And here comes the cavalry to save them. Why didn't Hood bring them in the first place? Fat Au was indebted to him and would do everything he told him - and Hood could have used any help he could have got? And why did they take only handguns. The least i was expecting is a grenade tossed to take a lot of the AK-ers out. Just stupid. Only because they wanted to have that sacrifice thing again and tie it up with the flashback.

But then the series tops itself with most unbelievable bullshit with Alex-Rebecca thing. So you're telling me that Rebecca can just waltz in, and more importantly, out of the Indian's core and probably most guarded location there is? The tribal council? Shots fired. No one around? No guards, No people, No cameras? Rebecca is going out of the council, out of the building, out of the reservation looking like a pile of bloody mess and nobody along the way raises an eyebrow? Stops her? Kills her? Sees her? Something? Anything? This close-guarded, suspicious community? And yet more, hours (?) after and nobody finds Alex's body and Burton freely goes in to 'tie up the loose ends' and gets rid of the body just like that?

L Oh Fucking L

And don't get me started on Kai walking free because of the worst and careless work ever. They shouldn't have even gone with that storyline.

Banshee S2 threw any plausibility out of the window of a skyscraper. Which might have been fine if they delivered on the action scenes and other stuff, but it didn't at all.

 

[[Fugo]]

Nola Longshadow better be coming back full time for season 3

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I want her revenge fight agaisnt Rebecca to give me some fapservice

 

[Cornballer]

Nola Longshadow better be coming back full time for season 3

She just signed on to an ABC series that airs this Summer, but I don't know how much overlap there will be between shooting the two shows. It would make it less likely for her to return.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

She just signed on to an ABC series that airs this Summer, but I don't know how much overlap there will be between shooting the two shows. It would make it less likely for her to return.

BOO!

Alex being killed is the perfect reason to bring her back and give her a much bigger role. It feels like there's still so much left unexplored with the character.

Not only that, just imagine her leading the tribe with Chayton as the muscle?

 

[charsace]

Oh -

YOU CAN'T KILL ME, YOU STUPID CUNT. I'M THE THUNDERMAN!!

The delivery of that line was hilarious.

This was great line. Thunderman will fuck your shit up.

 

[MisterFalcon]

I thought putting the Twin Towers in the background was a bit cheesy but if they stood on that corner of Green & Spring Street 15 years ago you would see the towers exactly as they are seen here. Very nice work there on accuracy in such an insanely unrealistic show.

 

[Cornballer]

- Warming Glow: ‘Banshee’ Season 2 Finale GIF Recap

 

[dead souls]

Not a great finale, but I'm thrilled that Rabbit is finally dead.

 

[Alpende]

Quite liked it. Glad the Rabbit story line is done now. Too bad about Emmett, I wanted to see more of him. Also dat Chayton, dude's a beast. Can't wait for some more fights featuring him, skinheads and/or Hood.

Overall I found season 2 quite a bit weaker than season 1. I hope season 3 is more akin to season 1. With Chayton returning I have faith.

 

[WarrenMax007]

Nice finale, not so nice season.

 

[KingKong]

It's honestly embarrassing when this show tries to punch above its weight

 

[RatskyWatsky]

It's honestly embarrassing when this show tries to punch above its weight

What do you mean?

 

[Net_Wrecker]

I enjoyed the show's attempt at getting all heroic bloodshed John Woo towards the end of the season starting with Job's escape from the church. They didn't chew up that church like Woo did in The Killer, but I'm not mad at the attempt, and let's be honest, how many directors can chew up sets like Woo in his prime.

I do agree with those that feel the season was lacking a strong focus compared to season 1. Whether that was completely due to not finishing up the Rabbit storyline last year I can't say for sure, but it simply wasn't as compelling. I hope Emmett's storyline and murder provide some kind of payoff next season or else his demise would feel more pointless than it does right now. I can say the same for THUNDERMAN coming to an end right as he gets interesting.

Hopefully the Chayton vs. Proctor vs. Hood vs Neo-Nazis battle royal in season 3 gets the show back on the rails.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

She will return!

 

[Magic Mushroom]

I enjoyed it. I too got flasbacks to The Killer in the church. It was nowhere near as good as that of course, but still... What I loved most were the Job flashback (Job easily had the best scenes this season), the montage (Albino!), the scenes with Racine, a character I really liked, and the Bloodsport-esque fight with Chayton. Nice to see Hood breaking in front of Kelly as well. The murder of Emmett and his wife genuinely shocked me.

It might not have been as consistent as the first, but I still enjoyed this season loads.

Hood versus Proctor versus Chayton and Nola (I hope) should be good next season.