The man calling himself Lucas Hood is getting into ever deeper trouble. More and more of his colleagues are noticing that the new sheriff seems not to know or care very much about police procedure. His ex-lover's murderous father is still out there, and still gunning for them. Tensions are escalating with the equally murderous local mob boss. Oh, and the son of the real Lucas Hood is on his way to town.
So how will the man who passes for our "hero" deal with all this? Well, pretty much the usual way he deals with things: punch a lot of people, have sex with pretty much any woman who seems the slightest bit interested, and generally make a lot of bad personal decisions.
And on that last point, he sure won't be alone, because "morally compromised people making bad personal choices" is pretty much what Banshee is all about. Whether it's keeping secrets when there is no good reason to do so, or sleeping with the wrong person, or starting really ill-advised fights, or whatever else, you can pretty much trust the characters to do the wrong thing, even if they oftentimes do so for well-meaning reasons.
You can also count on the cast of the show to commit to those characters and those decisions, with the majority of them frankly delivering performances that are several grades better than the show's schlocky, "sex and fighting" soap opera storylines probably deserve.
Banshee is truly trashy entertainment, but I will confess that it is entertaining.
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