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Banshee - Season 3 - Fridays on Cinemax

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aku:jiki

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I liked the episode, especially Bunker's first few real scenes were very good, but I don't really know about this new direction. Government conspiracy and super soldiers is not at all the endgame I envisioned for this show...
 
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RatskyWatsky

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aku:jiki said:
I liked the episode, especially Bunker's first few real scenes were very good, but I don't really know about this new direction. Government conspiracy and super soldiers is not at all the endgame I envisioned for this show...
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What is the endgame you envisioned for this show?
 
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Ekdrm2d1

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wenis said:
What an ending. What an ending.

just 9 more months
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WarrenMax007

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- Matthew Rauch Upped To Regular On ‘Banshee'; Casey LaBow Joins Cast
Longtime recurring Matthew Rauch has been promoted Casey Labow 3to regular for the upcoming fourth season of Cinemax’s drama series Banshee. Rauch first appeared as Clay Burton in the January 2013 pilot and recurred in the role some two dozen times over the course of the first three seasons. He’ll now continue as Clay as a series regular. Described as quiet, but deadly, Clay is Kai Proctor’s multifaceted and deeply complicated bodyguard and right-hand man. Also joining the cast as a recurring is Casey LaBow (The Twilight Saga; Breaking Dawn, Parts 1 and 2). She will play Maggie, wife to a local leader of the Aryan Brotherhood, who desperately wants a better life for her and her son.

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YESSSSSSSS. More Burton.
 
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RatskyWatsky

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Being upped to regular doesn't mean he'll have more screen time or more significance to the plot, btw. It's more of a contractual "lock him down" sort of thing.
 
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Cornballer

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Finished up the season this weekend. It was a very nice rebound after S2. (I liked S2 well enough, but it felt a little disjointed and didn't really hit the highs of S1.)

The 8 episode deal for S4 is a little odd, but I suppose they do spend a fair amount on Banshee. It seems like they went for a lot more with the stunts this year (explosions, auto stunts, etc...), and perhaps that added up. They also just lost their North Carolina tax credit, iirc. This article says they're moving to outside of Pittsburgh and the show costs about 3 million per episode. In addition, I guess the episode count doesn't matter as much for a subscription channel(?) I mean, someone that's subscribing for Banshee isn't going to suddenly cancel since it's 8 rather than 13 episodes. I also wonder if Yaitanes directing all of Quarry has anything to do with the episode order.

Anyway... very good season from Banshee. Bring on S4.
 
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RatskyWatsky

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Ana Ayora (The Big Wedding, Chop Shop) has booked a season-long arc on Season 4 of Cinemax’s Banshee.

Ayora will play
Nina Cruz, a smart, tough, streetwise deputy for the Banshee Sheriff’s Department who really is an inside plant working for Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen). Skilled with lethal fighting techniques and a killer instinct, she is a perfect blunt instrument for carrying out Proctor’s more nefarious and violent errands.

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- Deadline: Eliza Dushku Joins Cinemax’s ‘Banshee’
The Cinemax drama has been busy ramping up its cast lately, and now comes word that Eliza Dushku is joining Banshee. The drama series from Alan Ball centers on Lucas Hood (Antony Starr), an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, PA, where he continues his criminal pursuits while enforcing his own code of justice. Dushku will recur as
Agent Veronica Dawson, a tough, sexy and shockingly reckless FBI profiler with no shortage of personal demons who joins forces with Hood to hunt down a killer.
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Cornballer

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dead souls said:
Is anybody in here really excited by that casting?
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I am neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed. I am merely whelmed. I think she does a solid job with characters that are in the wheelhouse for her (think: Faith on Buffy), and presumably her role here is a similar badass with some snappy one liners. *shrugs*
 
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Miles Quaritch

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I don't mind Dushku is small doses, she was pretty fun in Buffy and Angel before she turned good and boring.

Sounds like she's playing a straight arrow here, so she's probably going to be boring.

Sigh.

And for those talking about her getting 'Hooded', pretty sure any nudity will be toned down significantly as it was towards the end of season 3.

I mean, wasn't there something about Cinemax wanting to leave their 'Skinemax' title behind and be taken more seriously?
 
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RatskyWatsky

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Miles Quaritch said:
I mean, wasn't there something about Cinemax wanting to leave their 'Skinemax' title behind and be taken more seriously?
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They no longer desire to stay in the soft core porn business (which is where the Skinemax name comes from) with shows like Femme Fatales, Topless Prophet, etc. but that has nothing to do with them toning down nudity and sex (which they haven't) on their original dramas.
 
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RatskyWatsky

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Cinemax Announces Start of Production on Fourth Season of 'Banshee'

Production has begun in Pittsburgh on the fourth season of the Emmy®-winning CINEMAX action series BANSHEE, it was announced today by Kary Antholis, president, HBO Miniseries and CINEMAX Programming. The eight-episode season will air in 2016, with Alan Ball, Greg Yaitanes, Jonathan Tropper, Peter Macdissi, Adam Targum and Ole Christian Madsen executive producing.
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Miles Quaritch

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RatskyWatsky said:
They no longer desire to stay in the soft core porn business (which is where the Skinemax name comes from) with shows like Femme Fatales, Topless Prophet, etc. but that has nothing to do with them toning down nudity and sex (which they haven't) on their original dramas.
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Apologies for the late response, I forgot I posted this.

I feel the latter half of Banshee was very light on any real nudity. Now you could argue that the story didn't really allow for any gratuitous nudity, but it was pretty surprising just how little there was compared to seasons 1 and 2.

I guess we'll find out if that holds true in season 4, but I'm already bracing myself for a significant drop of nudity.
 
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tringworldso said:
That bastard, he couldn't let another producer/director cover for him?

The premise of Quarry doesn't even sound interesting. Sadface.jpg
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A month late, but whatever. The Quarry novels are fantastic and this should excite you, even if it is tempered by its effect on Banshee.

Just wanted to jump in here and join in on the love fest. What a spectacularly spectacular show. Ripping through season 3 and watching Mad Max: Fury Road in the same weak has been a transformative experience :)
 
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